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Sharing the bulletin with colleagues
A reminder that if you have colleagues or new members of staff in education who would benefit from receiving the PEP bulletin each week, they can sign up by clicking the link below.
Inclusion
Inclusion Outreach SENCOs |
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To add further capacity to the Inclusion Outreach Service, we are seeking to second two further Outreach SENCOs, one primary, one secondary, from January 2023 on a part time basis for 14 days per academic year.
The closing date for expressions of interest has been extended to Friday 2 December 2022.
Please contact Sarah Christopher (Sarah.Christopher@portsmouthcc.gov.uk) or Lisa Caine (l.caine@thsportsmouth.org) for further information.
Portsmouth Helps Ukraine: Donations needed |
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Thank you to everyone who has already donated to Portsmouth Helps Ukraine, including Solent Infant and Junior schools. If you are in a position to make a donation, the following items are in particular need:
- Non-perishable food
- Tinned food
- Rice
- Pasta
- Tea and other drinks
- Nappies
- Wipes
- Toiletries
- Sleeping bags
Please contact Viola Langley (email langleyviola1@hotmail.com or phone 07907941939) to arrange collection of your donations. Thank you for your support.
Neurodiversity platform |
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A Family Assist neurodiversity platform is now available. It contains resources, guidance, and information that can be used alongside the neurodiversity profiling tool, which provides a holistic view of a child or young person’s needs, as well as strategies that can be put in place to help manage those needs in different areas of life - such as at home, at their early years setting, school or college, and in the community.
To access the platform, visit www.solent.nhs.uk/familyassist and click the 'Neurodiversity' tab on the menu.
The Neurodiversity Team provide specialist advice and support to families and schools who are completing the neurodiversity profiling tool. The neurodiversity platform is a developing piece of work and the team welcome any comments or feedback.
Please email Claire.Mason@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
If you need any support using either the profiling tool or neurodiversity platform, please contact the Neurodiversity Team via Neurodiversity0-19Enquiries@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Learn more about the neurodiversity profiling tool on the Portsmouth Local Offer website.
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Project Orpheus and Prevent update |
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The latest Project Orpheus and Prevent update includes information on:
- Guidance for DSLs on safeguarding learners
- Guidance for self assessment on Prevent policies and practices
- Independent review of Prevent
- Referrals pathway
- Educate Against Hate resources
- Portsmouth Prevent Board agreed priorities
- Reporting prejudicial language and behaviour
- Training
Portsmouth community groups join forces to support families with SEND |
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 An information event designed to support families who have children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) will take place at Central Library on Wednesday 7 December 2022 from 10am - 2pm.
This drop-in event allows parents/carers to arrive at any time throughout the day. 14 community groups and organisations will come together to provide information and advice for parents/carers to support children and young people aged 0-25 years old at the event.
The event is hosted on the third floor of Central Library in the Menuhin room. There is no need to register for a ticket - just turn up!
Mental health leads network |
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Tuesday 31 January 2023, 3.30pm - 5pm | Conference Room B, Civic Offices
You are invited to this network bringing together school and college staff with partners working to support social emotional and mental health (SEMH). All schools are encouraged to join this meeting. All those with an interest in mental health in education are invited including pastoral leads, ELSAs, DSLs and SENCOs. Senior mental health leads are strongly encouraged to attend.
School colleagues will be joined by staff from MHST, MABs, the EP Team, Early Help and other partners. This is a great opportunity to improve joint working and further strengthen SEMH partnership working.
This will be a hybrid meeting. Please join us in person if possible.
School improvement
Help needed to create a scheme to get people into the classroom as a teaching assistant |
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Teach Portsmouth's recent information events have collectively welcomed 200 people through the doors of Portsmouth Central Library to find out how to become a teaching assistant in the city. While these information events will continue, the team would like to link people with schools directly through a new scheme. We would like to invite headteachers across all settings in Portsmouth to help shape what this could look like.
We would like to understand the needs of schools in the city and whether a type of scheme is needed. Early ideas include the creation of a 'taster morning' where schools could sign up to promote either volunteering or jobs with a tour, presentation and networking session which could be promoted at Teach Portsmouth information events and online.
If you are interested in participating in the creation of a taster scheme, please email teachportsmouth@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
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