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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.
Inclusion
Last chance to complete parent/carer survey for SEND families |
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 More parents/carers who have children and young people aged up to 25 with special educational needs and or disabilities don't have long to complete the Portsmouth Local Offer survey.
We need your help to reach parents/carers to ensure they can help shape services for SEND families in the city. If your school or college has an e-newsletter and social media page, we would appreciate you sharing this information, encouraging people to complete the survey. The insight gained from the parent/carer survey will be used to improve existing services and commission new ones.
Please play your part in making this survey a success. The survey is open until Sunday 26 March 2023.
Locality multi-agency team (MAT) network meetings |
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Locality MATs network meetings continue to be run virtually, once a month in each locality. These are for an hour on Microsoft Teams. Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to attend and present at the meetings. There has and continues to be some very useful information shared that equips us to better support our Portsmouth families.
Every month there continues to be updates from Health Services, Early Help, Social Care, Police, MHST along with guest speakers sharing information about their services.
The next dates are:
- Central locality: Thursday 23 March 2023
- South locality: Tuesday 18 April 2023
- North locality: Wednesday 19 April 2023
- Central locality: Thursday 27 April 2023
In March and April, we have guest speakers that include:
- Annette Groves - Advice Portsmouth You Trust
- Nick Higgins - School aged immunisations
- Fran Shaul - Family Support
- Marshada Chowdhury - HAF Easter programme and new referral process
- Frank Olliver-Kneafsey - Recovery Hub LGBTQ+ Lead
- Southern Domestic Abuse
In addition, we have added a regular section in our 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.
If you wish to be sent an invite or are requesting to present, please email EarlySupportReferralPanel@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
School improvement
New song commemorating King Charles III's Coronation |
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To celebrate King Charles III's Coronation, Portsmouth Music Hub have composed a brand new song commemorating the special day.
The song is called 'This Is The Day' and we are looking for schools to take part in a collaborative version which will be released on the day of the Coronation.
Once signed up, a confirmation email will be sent out and a list of available filming slots.
Filming will take place w/c 24 April 2023 and slots are first come, first served.
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Outdoor learning and PE update from Hampshire Outdoors |
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As we move into the second half of the spring term, the latest edition of the Hampshire Outdoors Outdoor Learning (including Trailblazer) newsletter is now available. Our theme is longitudinal studies outdoors and Emma Cooper, General Inspector/Adviser for science at HIAS has written an article on this.
We welcome feedback and look to how we can improve this newsletter. Please have your say by completing this short survey.
Previous editions of the newsletter, as well as our free Trailblazer outdoor learning resources are available on the Trailblazer website. You can search by curriculum subject and/or key stage.
If you want to meet other practitioners working in the outdoors, the next Hampshire Outdoor Learning Group will be hosted at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens on Friday 24 March 2023 from 3.30pm - 6pm. Meet at the Visitor and Education Pavilion, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Jermyns Lane, Ampfield, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 0QA. RSVP using this link.
Supporting young people at secondary school with literacy difficulties |
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The Educational Psychology service worked in co-production last year with several secondary schools to understand the barriers to ensuring high literacy levels for all. Focus groups with young people were also held and parents consulted as well as consulting to understand some of the key principles involved in how best to support children with literacy difficulties in our secondary schools.
What follows is guidance from the EP team around how best to support young people with literacy difficulties as part of quality first teaching so that every teacher feels able to be a teacher of literacy.
Participation and progression
Post-16 transition coproduction workshop |
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Portsmouth Parent Voice are seeking views from parents and carers who have a child with special educational needs and disabilities in year 8 or above. They are holiding a coproduction workshop that aims to shape and improve Portsmouth’s transition to college and beyond.
They are looking for parent carers of young people with or without an EHCP, in specialist provision or mainstream, to coproduce the way transition to college happens.
The workshop will take place on Thursday 23 March 2023 from 10am to 12pm in the Menhuin Room, 3rd Floor Central Library, Guildhall Walk, Portsmouth PO1 2DX.
HAF Fun Pompey - Easter programme
The HAF Fun Pompey Easter programme is now available for bookings! This year it is easier than ever for families who are eligible for benefits related free school meals to book, using our new booking system. Please help publicise the programme and booking arrangements to children eligible for free school meals.
We are able to allocate up to 15% of places to children who are deemed vulnerable and have been referred by services including schools. Information about how to do this has been sent to schools' designated safeguarding leads.
Eligibility is automatically checked against the FSM data we hold: no need to complete the professional service referral form IF the family is eligible (they have to have applied and been confirmed). If they haven't applied please signpost them to the Portsmouth City Council website to apply. In the meantime, please complete this form for us to review under non-FSM status until they receive confirmation of the FSM grant.
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Family/child is benefits-related free school meal eligible with additional needs: please support the family in booking onto the programme and declaring the child/young person's needs on the registration. It is imperative that providers are given as much information in advance as possible to appropriately support the family. The family can book directly onto the programme here. Eligibility is automatically checked against the FSM data we hold: no need to complete professional service referral form IF the family is eligible (they must have applied and been confirmed).
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Non free school meal family/child: please complete the professional service referral form and send to the HAF team at haf@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. Non-FSM referrals must be approved by the HAF team before booking onto any provision. Eligibility is automatically checked against the FSM data received from PCC Education, if they have not been declared benefits related FSM status they cannot book on without a professional service referral.
If you have any queries, please contact haf@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Education Information Services school data meetings
The next school data manager meetings organised by Education Information Services (EIS) will take place towards the end of March. These meetings are aimed at staff responsible for data and statutory returns (including head teachers, finance officers, MIS managers or admin officers). They are of benefit to both new and to experienced colleagues. The sessions will include school census updates, Primary School Attainment 2023 and other forthcoming data issues to ensure that schools are obtaining best value from the team. Sessions will be held via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 28 March (PM) or Thursday 30 March (AM).
Please book your session via the training and events area within the Portsmouth Traded Services website.
Attendance is free for schools that purchase the EIS SLA.
For further information, please email education.informationservices@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Celebrating the children of foster carers
This Young Carers Action Day (15 March), Foster Portsmouth is recognising and celebrating the vital role the children of foster carers play within fostering arrangements. A birth child of foster carers plays a pivotal part in changing the lives of vulnerable children and young people who come into our care.
11-year-old Tilly, whose parents have fostered for over two years, recently shared some of her experiences of fostering including: "Fostering has benefited me by teaching me to share. I really love my foster brother. He means so much to me."
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