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Welcome to the new weekly edition of the PEP Bulletin which will be issued once a week, every Monday, during term time.
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Booking early years training
To enable you to book Portsmouth Early Years training, please ensure you have 'purchased' the universal offer on the Portsmouth Service Network website. This is free of charge to you, however, it must be purchased by you in order for the system to recognise you as a Portsmouth school and to enable you to book onto training and access resources. We are not authorised to do this for you.
Log in here http://servicesnetwork.portsmouth.gov.uk/. If you have any log in or password queries, please email traded.services@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
- Click on 'services' at the top blue bar
- Click 'buy now' in green on the right hand side of the screen
- Go to the sixth orange drop down box 'Early Years and Childcare' and click
- Select ' Our Universal centrally funded offer' (this is the first option at the top)
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'add to basket'
- Once added, go to your basket at the top, click, tick the t&c's and check out
Calling all breakfast, after school. holiday clubs and childminders!
Over 5's practitioners meeting - Spring Term 2019
Wednesday 3 April 2019 6.30 - 8.30 pm
FREE of charge
Lots of recent relevant updates and a workshop focusing on 'Celebrating difference and challenge gender stereotypes.'.
Book your places now on the Portsmouth services network website http://servicesnetwork.portsmouth.gov.uk/ or email eyworkforce@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Early Years Training - March
Eager to Write (YEAR R Teachers only) 13/3/19 1:00pm-3:30pm Delving into Sustained Shared Thinking 26/3/19 6:30pm-8:30pm
Book your places now on the Portsmouth services network website http://servicesnetwork.portsmouth.gov.uk/ enquiries to eyworkforce@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Seminar on alternative ways to teach reading
Date: Monday 25th March 2019
Presented by Victoria Devonshire - University of Portsmouth
Time: 10am -12 noon
Venue: Conference Room A, Civic Offices
Did you know that only 56% of words can be spelt using phonic rules? How do we support children to spell the remaining words? This seminar will explore the elements of phonology, morphology, etymology and form rules to support our understanding of how children learn to read.
Audience: For experienced Early Years Practitioners and Year R teachers
Early Years Bulletins
Available to view here
Leadership, recruitment and retention |
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DfE funded CPD programme for early career teachers
The DFE have asked us to highlight that Portsmouth early career teachers are eligible to participate in Accelerate, a new professional development programme tailor-made for those in the first five years of their teaching career. The FREE programme will provide teachers with the tools and support they need to fast-track their teaching skills. It is designed to help improve pupil attainment and keep talented teachers within the profession and aligns with the new Government Recruitment and Retention Strategy.
Spaces are limited and will be allocated on first come first served basis after eligibility. Applications close on 31 March 2019. Find out more and register at www.accelerate-teaching.co.uk
Accelerate is also looking for partner schools to support the programme by offering classroom teachers to provide coaching. The teacher coaches will receive two days' training, and the schools will be remunerated for the coaches' time. Again, further information is on the website.
Teaching Leaders
Ambition School Leadership are working in collaboration with the Portsmouth Education Partnership and key stakeholders across the region. Together we are hoping to create a cohort of 20 Portsmouth leaders who will join a national cohort of 500 middle leaders across the country.
Teaching Leaders is a fully-funded programme for high-potential middle leaders working in schools in challenging contexts. With a new focus on improving the quality of teaching, this programme provides participants with the instructional leadership skills to lead on curriculum, assessment and pedagogy. As the only middle leadership development programme in England that has been independently shown to have an impact on pupil outcomes, it transforms middle leaders to drive school-wide improvement. All delivery is out of school hours.
The programme operates on a first come first served basis and is already 70% full for 2019/2020. If interested please put names forward as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Please submit to Mike.Stoneman@portsmouthcc.gov.uk by 1 April 2019.
To find out more about the programme please see the attached flyer and visit the website here.
School improvement |
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Ofsted Inspection - Victory Primary School |
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Well done to Victory Primary School who continue to be Good after a short Ofsted inspection on 7 February 2019.
Inspectors confirmed 'The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the previous inspection. You have continued to provide effective leadership to the school and further strengthened the work of senior leaders'.
Report
Curriculum and CPD |
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PTSA : NQT Spring Term Workshop / Courses / Train to Teach
The second of the NQT Spring Term Workshops takes place on Thursday 14th March and looks at Assessment for Learning and Differentiation. Both am and pm sessions are available. Please see the attached poster for further details. All bookings as usual are via the PTSA website: www.portsmouthtsa.org
For other courses offered by Portsmouth Teaching School Alliance see here
Train to Teach events here.....next event 27 March 2019.
Increasing accessibility and fostering inclusive classrooms
An edWebinar on 26 March 2019 3 - 4 pm to discuss what inclusive classrooms and employing accessibility look like from the standpoint of reading, writing, math and communication. The presenters will be sharing examples from Microsoft Education’s free accessibility suite of tools and including the stories of teachers who have worked with students of all abilities in an inclusive classroom setting.
Further details / to register
One World Litter Picking Poster Competition
In support of the Great British Spring Clean, Portsmouth City Council and the Portsmouth Music Hub are working together to raise awareness about litter picking.
Portsmouth Music Hub invite you to design a poster encouraging people to pick up rubbish and put it in a bin.
Closing Date : 22 March 2019
Details / Poster
Emotional health & wellbeing |
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Historic announcement on LGBT inclusion in England's schools
This afternoon, the Government published the final draft guidance for teaching Relationships Education in primary schools, and Relationships and Sex Education in secondary schools.
From September 2020 onwards, all primary schools in England will be required to teach about different families, which can include LGBT families. And at secondary level, all schools in England will be required to teach about sexual orientation and gender identity. This teaching is hugely important. In primary schools, teaching about LGBT families ensures that children from LGBT families see themselves reflected in what they learn. It also helps all young people grow up knowing that there’s absolutely nothing wrong or unusual about being LGBT – helping to prevent the anti-LGBT bullying that remains widespread in our schools. And through building on this work at secondary level, schools can help all young people, including LGBT young people, make informed decisions, have healthy relationships and grow up feeling proud of who they are.
By highlighting the need for LGBT-inclusive teaching, this guidance has the potential to drive forward a step-change in the way LGBT people and relationships are taught about in every school in England.
Looking ahead, building on the good practice of the schools and local authorities we work with across the country, we hope to see LGBT inclusion strengthened further when the guidance is next updated in 2022.
More than thirty years on from the introduction from Section 28, today’s announcement shows just how far we’ve come. It stands as a testament to the work of our founders, who set up Stonewall in response to that damaging piece of legislation which made LGBT people invisible in our classrooms for so many years. It stands as a testament to the tireless work of schools, local authorities and third sector organisations who have spent the last three decades campaigning for compulsory Relationships and Sex Education, and to the Government, backed by cross-party support, who have introduced it. And it stands as a testament to the efforts of thousands of young people, teachers, local authority officers and parents who called for LGBT-inclusive Relationships and Sex Education in the recent consultation on the guidance.
Is domestic violence impacting your students? What can you do?
Up2U: Armed Forces is a new, innovative voluntary programme funded by the Armed Forces Covenant, for Service Personnel and their partners who use unhealthy or abusive behaviours in their relationships that will be having an impact on their children and family.
Up2U Armed Forces recognises that people use unhealthy or abusive behaviours for different underlying reasons ranging from emotional deregulation, learned behaviour, poor conflict resolution or reintegration on returning home from deployment which have effects upon the whole family. Therefore Up2U Armed Forces is an assessment led intervention programme responding to individual need, risk and responsivity by offering tailored 1-2-1 packages.
Referrals can be made by Units within the Armed Forces, other professional bodies such as the Police, Social Services, Family Support Workers, Mental Health Team's and also individuals and their partners can self-refer, and then an Up2U Armed Forces worker will arrange to meet with the client as soon as possible to discuss this programme.
This Armed Forces programme currently runs in the South East Hampshire and can be contacted on:-
Phone: 02392 841 502
Email: Up2UArmedForces@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
The MOMO Challenge
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Hampshire Police Education Team are highlighting the dangers of an internet ‘suicide-influencing game’ which has come to their attention called 'The MOMO Challenge' which encourages children to harm themselves and is reported to be linked to several deaths around the world and is now appearing across the UK. They have already sent out an email direct to all schools.
The MOMO Challenge is targeted at children and young people through social media by people presenting as MOMO, a terrifying looking doll.
The doll encourages them to add a contact on messaging service WhatsApp from an unknown number, once contact is made, children are subsequently bombarded with terrifying images and messages reportedly ranging from threats and dares which encourage them to self-harm and even commit suicide.
Although known of in other parts of the world since last year, it appears to be making its way across the UK.
MOMO has been associated to multiple platforms used by children including Youtube, Kidstube, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.
There is a short Youtube video which may be useful for parents and professionals which explains step-by-step how MOMO may contact and communicate with children, with examples of graphics they may receive – please note this is not intended for children to view and adult viewer discretion is advised as the clip shows images of self-harm. https://youtu.be/NfPeGcb5g2A
New resources on dealing with change
Public Health England has created new KS3 and KS4 resources to help you discuss change with your students as they transition into adulthood. This includes changes to their bodies, relationships and school lives. These resources will help you equip your students with the skills to protect their body and mind from the stresses that change can bring. There is also a KS2 lesson plan to help students deal with the change from primary to secondary school.
 Anti-idling campaign
Air pollution affects everybody, but children, the elderly and people with heart and lung conditions are more vulnerable to lung damage and disease.
In busy cities like Portsmouth, the main cause of air pollution is traffic. Many of us idle our vehicles - when dropping off children or picking them up, at drive-throughs or waiting to park. We are asking parents, school staff and visitors to switch off their vehicle's engine when stationary, especially when near a school.
We have produced a toolkit and poster to help you support our campaign. If would like to receive these by email kathy.smith@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Find out more
FREE event - Children & Young People Suicide Prevention Learning Event
Venue : Aston Villa Football Park, Villa Park, Birmingham
Date : Wednesday 20 March 2019 9.30 am - 4.00 pm
West Midlands Clinical Networks are hosting a FREE awareness and learning event on 20th March 2019 in Birmingham aimed at bringing together ALL relevant stakeholders interested in CYP Suicide prevention including commissioners, providers and frontline staff to improve support offered to young people around this issue and self-harm.
Place are limited. If interested email Mandy Cocking who will confirm your place as soon as possible.
SEND |
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Conference : Getting relationships & sex education right for disabled children and those with SEN
Friday 29 March 2019 10.00 am - 4.00 pm
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London
The Sex Education Forum and Council for Disabled Children are counting down to the start of mandatory Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) by guiding teachers through the new legislation, and helping schools choose the best resources and teaching approaches to build an inclusive and up-to-date programme that is relevant to pupils' real lives and specifically meets SEND needs.For our 2nd joint conference we bring together an incredible wealth of expertise on RSE and SEND. Professionals, parents and carers are welcomed.
Booking details
Post 16 education and training |
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National Apprenticeship Week 4 - 8 March 2019
With the support of Stagecoach, Shaping Portsmouth, Portsmouth University, the Southern Universities Network and other partners we will be celebrating National Apprenticeship Week by taking the Apprenticeship Bus to visit local secondary schools on the 5th and 7th of March.
For further details and times of visits check here.
Easier access to payslips for school staff
As part of the EBS self-service project we have been trialling a new facility that will allow school staff to access their payslip, P60 and basic HR details using any internet enabled device (including your own personal devices).
This change will mean that from September 2018 you will be able to access your payslip/P60/HR record from any internet enabled device (e.g. your smartphone, home PC, laptop or tablet). You will also be able to view your previous payslips and P60s online.
In future, your payslip will be available for you to view online on the day before pay day. We will still produce paper payslips in parallel with the new access facility but intend to stop producing printed payslips at the end of March 2019.
Further details on how to access this facility is shown on the links below.
EBS self-service can be accessed via the login page: https://hrss.portsmouth.gov.uk.
Full details of how to login to EBS can be found here.
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School Crossing Patrollers
Portsmouth City Council is looking for reliable people who are great with children, to help keep the young people safe when crossing the city's roads.
We are potentially looking for school crossing patrollers for specific schools, and especially relief patrollers to step in as, when and where required.
Working hours are ten per week, two hours per day (typically 8am - 9am, and 3pm - 4pm) during weekdays and term-time only (relief hours are as and when required). A salary of £8.78 - £9.04 per hour is provided for any permanent roles, and £9.82 per hour for relief patrollers, as well as training, equipment and a uniform.
To find out more and apply visit our webpage, call 023 9283 4302 or email recruitment@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
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School Crossing Patrollers Needed!
Portsmouth City Council is looking for reliable people who are great with children, to help keep the young people safe when crossing the city's roads.
We are potentially looking for school crossing patrollers for specific schools, and especially relief patrollers to step in as, when and where required.
Working hours are ten per week, two hours per day (typically 8am - 9am, and 3pm - 4pm) during weekdays and term-time only (relief hours are as and when required). A salary of £8.78 - £9.04 per hour is provided for any permanent roles, and £9.82 per hour for relief patrollers, as well as training, equipment and a uniform.
To find out more and apply visit our webpage, call 023 9283 4302 or email recruitment@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
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Multi Agency Behaviour Services (MABS) 2019/20
The Harbour School is planning to convert to Academy status on 1 September 2019. From this date those schools that currently purchase the Multi-Agency Behaviour Service (MABS) through the traded services website will need to purchase the service from the school directly. The traded services team is working closely with the MABS team to ensure a smooth transition.
The Harbour School will continue to provide a similar MABS service from 1 September 2019, and more details will be published in due course. For any queries please contact Lisa Caine, Deputy Director of Outreach, on lisa.caine@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or on 023 9266 5664.
Education Information Services School Data Meetings
The next school data meetings organised by Education Information Services will take place towards the end of the Spring term. Aimed at staff responsible for data statutory returns (including headteachers, finance officers, MIS managers or admin officers), the sessions are to raise awareness of forthcoming data collections and to ensure that schools are obtaining best value from the team.
There are 4 possible sessions to attend: either the morning or the afternoon of either Friday 22nd March or Monday 1st April.
For further information, please email: education.informationservices@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
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