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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
Family Support Plan portal now live |
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The new digital solution which supports the Family Support Plan is now ready to use. The FSP Portal allows you to complete the Family Support Plan directly onto the portal, work collaboratively with others, and have an overview for all the children that have an FSP.
Key benefits of the FSP Portal include:
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Digital solution - a digital version of the FSP form.
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Case management overview - clear view for all children who have an FSP that you are either the lead or part of the team around the family.
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Include other professionals - you can add in other professionals who are part of the TAF, they will be able to view the FSP and Plan.
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Review reminders - the portal will show at 6 and 12-week periods when a review is due.
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Review will pre-populate - when starting a review, this will pull through all previous information from the original FSP.
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Actions will pre-populate - actions from the plan will pull through and allow for an update and to show progress and changes.
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Transfer cases - if stepping across to another lead professional, you can transfer the ‘FSP coordinator’ role.
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Download and print - you can download the FSP to enable it to be uploaded to your own system or print for the family.
ACTION REQUIRED
The FSP Portal will now replace the Word version and you will need to register for an account before you use this. Please complete the form, email to fsp@portsmouthcc.gov.uk and your account will be set up for you. If you are from a school and have access to the Insight Hub portal already, your FSP account will have been already added.
Further support is available to help you navigate the FSP Portal:
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#BeeWell survey launches in schools |
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#BeeWell is about to launch across Portsmouth, Hampshire, Southampton and the Isle of Wight. If your school is one of the 130 signed up to the #BeeWell programme, the Project Team will have been in contact recently with further instructions, including a link to the resource pack to help deliver the survey.
The survey window opens on Monday 18 September 2023 and runs until Friday 1 December 2023. If you haven't completed already, please fill out the MS form to indicate when your school plans to deliver the survey with your pupils.
For those schools not participating this year, there will be an opportunity to take part in 2024. You can follow the progress of the programme and the difference #BeeWell is making on the #BeeWell website and social media.
Portsmouth Helps Ukraine |
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Portsmouth Helps Ukraine is currently collecting the following items to be sent to Ukraine:
- Clean and good quality clothes for all ages - autumn and winter only
- Sanitary products
- Medical supplies
- Clean or new blankets (no bedding)
Shoe boxes/string bags will be sent to Ukraine for Christmas, and the following items are being collected:
- For soldiers: warm gloves, new socks, chocolate bars, nuts, tins of tuna, sardines etc, sachets of coffee, tea, toothbrushes, toothpaste, packs of body wipes, packs of cards or a few little fun things.
- Children's boxes: chocolate, nuts, bars, wipes, small new soft toys, new t-shirts long sleeved, little games but not in English, crayons, little exercise books for writing, drawing etc.
Please contact Viola Langley (email langleyviola1@hotmail.com or phone 07907 941939) to arrange collection of your donations.
School improvement
Music CPD sessions |
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Portsmouth Music Hub are excited to launch a series of CPD workshops for teaching staff across the city. Sessions include:
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Singing games and warmups for the classroom and choirs KS1 | Tuesday 31 October 2023, 1pm - 3pm
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Music teaching at KS2: Ideas for integrating music into your whole school curriculum | Monday 13 November 2023, 1pm - 3pm
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Singing games and warmups for the classroom and choirs KS2 | Tuesday 20 February 2024, 1pm - 3pm
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Planning an inclusive music curriculum | Wednesday 12 June 2024, 9.30am - 12pm
Morning sessions (9.30am - 12pm) cost £60 and afternoon sessions (1pm - 3pm) cost £50.
Schools booking more than two courses (can be for different staff members) will receive a £10 discount on each subsequent course.
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Citywide science CPD autumn 2023/24 |
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The citywide science CPD opportunities for the autumn term are below and further details can be found here. Please register your place using the online form.
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Introduction to science leadership (primary and secondary)
Wednesday 18 October 2023, 3pm to 5pm (UTC Portsmouth)
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Developing your primary science curriculum using the Ofsted framework
Wednesday 29 November 2023, 3pm to 5pm (UTC Portsmouth)
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STEM Learning: associate professional development science facilitator training
Thursday 7 December 2023, 9am to 4pm (Copnor Primary School)
Places will be offered on a first come, first served basis and will be confirmed by a calendar invitation with further details about the training.
Primary STEM subject network meetings
We are pleased to share the date for our first primary STEM network meetings for autumn term. Your maths/computing/science subject lead should have been invited to a Microsoft Team for their subject and will soon be receiving a calendar invite for the meeting. If they have not received this by the end of Friday 22 September 2023, please let Gemma know.
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Science - Wednesday 27 September 2023, 3.45pm to 5pm
Hosted by Natasha Gamble at Copnor Primary School
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Maths - Wednesday 27 September 2023, 3.45pm to 5pm
Hosted by Beth Eddy at Copnor Primary School
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Computing - Thursday 28 September 2023, 3.45pm to 5.15pm
Hosted by Nicci Sawdy, Amy Quade and Sophie Kelleher at New Horizons Primary School
If you have any questions, contact Gemma Gwilliam on ggwilliam@copnorprimary.co.uk.
Free languages CPD for secondary departments |
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There is a renewed direction for languages starting this year and led by the NCLE. This curriculum puts teachers' professionalism at the heart of teaching and learning.
To ensure that all departments in the city are ready to embrace the new GCSE and curriculum, Tanya Riordan, PGCE MFL Course Leader at the University of Portsmouth, is offering two free CPD sessions to MFL departments.
The first session is on rethinking the curriculum and the second on scaffolding the lesson.
To arrange suitable dates and times, please contact Tanya Riordan on tanya.riordan@port.ac.uk.
Pompey in the Community 2023/24 sessions |
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 Pompey in the Community are organising sessions for the 2023/24 academic year through its free Premier League Primary Stars and Joy of Moving programmes. Head of Curriculum, Sam Cleare, has already been working closely with a large amount of schools in the Portsmouth area over the last two years and we wish to continue engaging with the schools in our community. The PLPS offer to schools includes the following:
- Reading interventions with individuals using football themed texts (6 weeks).
- Active maths interventions in small groups (6 weeks).
- PSHE interventions in friendship and self esteem with whole class (6 weeks).
- P.E CPD delivering/team teaching lessons alongside class teachers to support their confidence and subject knowledge (not PPA cover) (6 weeks).
- Social action project: working with school council/sports leaders to plan and organise an activity or event to help the school, local community or wider world (6 weeks).
- Whole staff training in P.E as an after-school CPD.
- One-off PSHE activations: 45min workshop which can be delivered to multiple classes (either in an assembly or individual classes one at a time).
- One-off maths activations - data handling and statistics using the live Premier League data online (goals, yellow cards, corners, shots, saves etc).
- One-off English activations - stadium tour of Fratton Park followed by a creative writing workshop at PITC using the five senses, on what it would be like to play in front of a sold-out crowd.
- Support and guidance in organising and/or running school sports days.
Register with the Primary Stars website for free to get access to a bank of resources with a football theme to deliver to pupils. Joy of Moving runs for six weeks with year 5 pupils and incorporates a 45min classroom PSHE element around healthy lifestyles and diets and a 45min practical session with fun active games (not a traditional P.E lesson).
For further information, please email Sam Cleare on Sam.Cleare@pompeyitc.org.uk.
The Big Ambition survey |
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 The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has launched The Big Ambition, a national survey of children and young people across England.
The Big Ambition aims to hear from children across England on what they think is important. In the lead up to the next General Election, the Children’s Commissioner wants to take children’s thoughts, opinions and ideas to decision-makers, to make sure that the Government hears young people’s voices on what they think needs to be done to make children’s lives better in England.
The Big Ambition survey will be open until Friday 15 December 2023.
DfE Languages Hub Schools – Salterns Trust announcement |
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The DfE has announced its first 15 schools that will run its new network of Languages Hubs across England. Salterns Trust is delighted that Admiral Lord Nelson School and Trafalgar School have been chosen to lead one of the two Languages Hubs in the South East region.
Last year, the government announced a £14.9 million expansion of their previous language hubs pilot. It aims to spread best practice in language teaching to other schools and boost exam entries. The scheme will be managed by the National Consortium for Languages Education, a consortium of UCL, the British Council and the Goethe-Institut. 19 schools will work together on the first 15 hubs. A further 10 hubs will be created in the second recruitment round in January, meaning there will be 25 hubs in total.
Each Languages Hub is expected to work closely with up to seven secondary schools and more detailed information will follow. If you are interested in being one of seven schools working closely with our Languages Hub, please contact Nys Hardingham on ceo@salternstrust.co.uk.
+Extra funding for projects |
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 Portsmouth City Council and Shaping Portsmouth have teamed up with Crowdfunder to help make great ideas happen. Community organisations and schools can get an extra funding boost of up to £5,000 for great ideas through the Portsmouth CIL Transformation Fund. Local organisations to benefit so far include Share Portsmouth Library of Things and Repair Café, Cumberland Infant School and Manor Infant and Nursery School.
Share Portsmouth Library of Things and Repair Cafe crowdfunded to help the community save money and the planet by repairing and borrowing items rather than throwing them away. They successfully raised over £13,000 with the help of +Extra funding.
Free webinar: DBS legal duty to refer training
When: Wednesday 4 October 2023, 10am - 12pm
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the benefits of DBS and your organisation working together.
- Understand the three different referral routes.
- Understand when a DBS barring referral should be made, including when the legal duty is met.
- Understand what regulated activity is.
- Understand how to make a good quality referral.
- Have a clear understanding of the consequences of not making appropriate barring referrals and the consequences of being included in one or both barred lists.
Who is this for?
Everyone who employs staff who need a DBS to do their job.
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