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If you have information to be included in the next issue of the PEP bulletin, please send your text, image and link by Tuesday at 12pm to pep@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Message for school mental health leads -
Little Blue Book of Sunshine |
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As most of you will be aware, the Little Blue Book of Sunshine was designed and distributed last year to primary and junior schools and offers top tips to help young people cope with problems such as anxiety, stress, body image, relationships and anger.
If any schools would like more copies of the book, please speak to your Mental Health Support Team link who will arrange this.
Suicide bereavement training and resources |
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New support is now available around caring for children and young people (CYP) who have been bereaved by a suicide and responding to a suicide with skill and confidence:
Suicide bereavement training
ELSAs and other staff from Portsmouth schools are invited to join an online workshop hosted by the Luna Foundation exploring how to respond to children and young people who have been bereaved by suicide. The workshop will be delivered on 26 and 27 September 2022 by trainers with direct lived experience of parental suicide, including Churchill Fellow Anna Wardley. There are 25 spaces on each workshop.
Guides for professionals and parent/carers
Written by Churchill Fellow Anna Wardley, who specialises in improving support for children and young people after suicide bereavement. Hard copies will be distributed to schools.
Supporting children and young people when someone dies by suicide - Guidance for professionals working with children and young people after the suicide of a parent/guardian, sibling or other significant person
Supporting your child after someone dies by suicide - Advice for parents and carers after the suicide of a parent/guardian, sibling, or other significant person
Suicide Prevention and Postvention Protocol for Portsmouth schools and colleges
Support for the school/college community in the case of a death by (suspected) suicide or an attempted suicide. Postvention support information and guidance for children and young people. Hard copies will be distributed to headteachers of all schools. Available online here.
Amparo - suicide specific bereavement support service
Amparo has been commissioned in Portsmouth and across Hampshire, supporting all ages and providing practical and emotional support after a suicide, including crisis-response within organisations where a suspected suicide has taken place. Anyone can refer, at any point following the bereavement.
1-2-1 counselling is also available for children and young people as well as capacity-building workshops for the CYP system to raise awareness and upskill. Contact Jenny Talbot (Jenny.talbot@listening-ear.co.uk) for more information.
Headteacher wellbeing session with Joy Squibb |
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All headteachers are invited to join Joy Squibb for the final wellbeing session of the academic year. This is funded by the local authority and takes place on Friday 15 July 2022 at 10am and 2pm. Headteachers are invited to join either session. The theme will be making good habits for the future and preparing for the summer holidays.
Zoom details
Join Zoom meeting
Meeting ID: 889 8289 8574
Passcode: 429546
For further information please contact Joy Squibb at joy.squibb@starfishtime.co.uk.
Big Dreams: Imaginative Songs
A fully-funded resource and CPD |
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Big Dreams: Imaginative Songs will explore song writing, improvising and composing whilst also exploring growth mindset and the PSHE curriculum through songs and creative musical activities.
This new resource offers a 10 week scheme of work for years 2, 3 and 4, featuring songs, lesson plans and video content to support specialists and non-specialists in the classroom.
There will be a CPD session in the autumn term to introduce this scheme of work and the resources.
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In line with the funding conditions which we have recently received, please sign up by the end of term to be part of this initiative. Apologies for the short notice when you are all busy.
Share your experiences and preferences to help shape PSHE support in 2022/23 |
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A short survey is being conducted to explore how quality improvement can be facilitated across more schools in Portsmouth. PSHE/RSHE leads are asked to spend 10-15 minutes completing the survey to the best of your knowledge.
It is important to note that the survey is intended to capture insights to shape the facilitation that is available to schools within 2022/23 and onwards in relation to personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education.
Pompey in the Community 2022/23 schools offer |
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Pompey in the Community (PITC) are organising sessions for the 2022/23 academic year through its free Premier League Primary Stars programme. Coordinator Sam Cleare has already been working closely with a large amount of schools in the Portsmouth area since starting in September 2021. The offer to schools includes the following potential opportunities:
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P.E lessons alongside class teacher to provide individual CPD and upskill confidence and delivery across six weeks (not PPA cover)
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English interventions (small groups or individuals) - we have access to football themed texts to complete hearing children read, reading comprehension activities etc. across six weeks
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Social action projects - six-week project lead by children to help the school and/or local community. Past activities include shoe box appeal for local care homes/elderly, cooking sessions at PITC with food delivered to local foodbanks/soup kitchens, and school raffles to raise money for charity
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PSHE, maths, English one-off activation workshops - these have included visits to Fratton Park to support creative writing around the five senses (going pitchside and the children think about what they can hear, taste, smell etc.), maths workshop on statistics/data handling using the live Premier League data on goals, assists, corners, bookings etc., PSHE sessions on aspirations, friendships and self-esteem
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Sports days - with the help of PITC BTEC students, we can help organise and/or run school sports days
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Whole staff training in P.E for your teachers after school or during INSET days.
Register via the Primary Stars website for free to access a bank of resources with a football theme to deliver to pupils.
For questions or further information please email sam.cleare@pompeyitc.org.uk.
Modern foreign languages (MFL) update |
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Dates for your diary
- Engaging and motivating young learners of French: Wednesday 28 September 2022, 3.45pm - 6pm
- An introduction to the support and resources offered by the Education Office of the Spanish Embassy: Monday 17 October 2022, 3.45pm - 5.15pm
All colleagues, primary and secondary, teachers of French and/or Spanish and other languages, are very welcome to attend these sessions. Further details will follow in the autumn term.
Language Trends 2022
Language Trends is the British Council's annual survey of primary and secondary schools in England, designed to gather information about the situation for language teaching and learning. The 2022 report is now available to read here.
Portsmouth International Port open day (free for years 5 and 6) |
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The week commencing 10 October 2022 is Maritime Week and Portsmouth International Port are working with Maritime UK, Portico, Navy, MOD, Hovertravel and E3 Harris to have an ‘open day’ on Thursday 13 October 2022.
They would like to invite schools with year 5 and 6 pupils to attend either a morning or afternoon session to go behind the scenes, e.g. hopefully to see cranes, cruise and naval ships, and the hovercraft. Entry would be free of charge but schools would need to provide their own transport.
Ideally, this may be a 'taster' event which could become a model for the future, particularly around STEM learning. More information to follow but please send expressions of interest in the first instance to debbie.anderson@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
GCSE headline figures for 2022 |
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This is a reminder that Mike Stoneman has requested that schools provide their GCSE headline figures with the summer 2022 results. This will allow the council to share with the media and Members some top-level analysis for the city as a whole based on these headline measures, as well as enabling Education Information Services to provide the initial profiles for secondary schools.
Please send your results by 11am on Thursday 25 August 2022 to Education Information Services at education.informationservices@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
If you haven't received the original email with the template, please email EIS to be sent a copy of the template.
Full 2021/22 end of year attendance and changes data feed |
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All schools are asked to please ensure they provide the Education Information Services team with a final attendance and changes file after registers close on the final day of term. This will help the team to ensure the new data can be updated efficiently in September. Non-SIMS schools will need to upload their files to SSE; SIMS schools will need to complete a manual transfer.
If you are unsure of how to create a manual transfer in SIMS, please email the EIS team at education.informationservices@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Locality multi-agency team (MAT) network meetings |
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Locality MATS network meetings continue to be run monthly in each locality for an hour via Microsoft Teams. Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to attend and present at the meetings. There has and continues to be useful information shared that equips us to better support Portsmouth families.
Every month there are updates from Health Services, Early Help, Social Care, Police, MHST along with guest speakers sharing information about their services. In July and September we have guest speakers that include:
- Melanie Owen - Firewise
- Cara White - HAF Fun Pompey
- Luke Coe - Family Assist
- Caroline Barber -The Good Mental Health Cooperative
- Hannah Byrne - Public Health Portsmouth
A meeting will not be held in August.
In addition, a regular section has been added to the agenda for those that want to briefly share changes to their provision or promote new activities. You may want to email the address below if you have any posters / links that you will be sharing.
Please email EarlySupportReferralPanel@portsmouthcc.gov.uk to request an invite or to present.
Free 'Understanding Myself Intervention' training
Thursday 29 September 2022, 1pm - 3.30pm
The View Room 2 (Portsmouth Civic Offices, Floor 5 Core 2)
Used by a number of schools involved in the Neurodiversity in Schools' Project (NDiS), the core aims of the intervention are to increase self-awareness, help others to understand the needs of the young people and their unique experiences of the world, improve self-esteem and build confidence.
The Understanding Myself Intervention, developed by Daisy Chain, has been piloted and adapted in co-production with neurodiverse young people. It is underpinned by numerous psychological theories and practices including cognitive behaviour therapy, positive psychology, six-factor model of psychological wellbeing, and resilience therapy.
Suitable for any member of a school's inclusion/pastoral team within junior and/or secondary schools, who are able to deliver small group interventions. Feedback from colleagues already using the materials has been very positive.
For more information, or to book a place on this free session, please contact Mike Bowen (Commissioning Project Manager for SEND & SEMH) mike.bowen@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Diversity in Christian traditions: Exploring what this means using the golden threads in Living Difference IV
This workshop on Tuesday 4 October 2022, 1pm - 4pm is free to all teachers, RE leaders and senior leaders with a primary/special needs RE focus in the Portsmouth area!
Taking place in the nave at the Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral and using a range of speakers, the workshop will help delegates know how to teach the Christian traditions using the golden threads of belonging, community, special and love as a focus. Delegates will consider the range of Christian beliefs and practices, but also look at different expressions of these across the Christian traditions. The workshop will develop the building blocks of knowledge for teachers to teach Christianity with confidence, knowledge and enthusiasm across both KS1 and 2.
Led by Justine Ball, HIAS Inspector/Adviser for Primary RE, this half day workshop will have a series of speakers who will talk about the golden threads in their own settings including:
- Church of England
- Roman Catholic
- Orthodox
- Pentecostal
- Evangelical communities
The workshop will include discussions, networking with other RE teachers and ideas to use now – you will leave the workshop with a renewed understanding of Living Difference IV and resources you can use to underpin it, as well as lots of practical ideas for teaching RE in your school.
NQT/ECT guide to phonics or just new to phonics
Tuesday 6 September 2022, 4pm - 5.30pm
This free training will be an opportunity for NQT/ECT teachers to widen their phonic knowledge. This will be a session to support you to prepare for September with phonics and early reading.
The training is aimed at ECTs or teachers who are new to phonics, in the Springhill and Kingsnorth English Hub areas.
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