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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
Young carers May half term activities |
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The Portsmouth Young Carers service May half term activity programme can be found here.
Please support your families to follow the details for booking and feel free to contact the team at youngcarers@portsmouthcc.gov.uk if you have any questions.
To make a referral to the Young Carers service, please visit the Portsmouth City Council website.
School improvement
Research into teaching assistant retention - Exit interview feedback required |
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Teach Portsmouth is undertaking research into teaching assistant retention and how we can support schools to retain staff. It is hoped that the data received from schools will be used to create an initiative to support retention.
To understand why teaching assistants leave the profession, we are asking academies and LA maintained schools to provide anonymised exit interview feedback. You may not have a formal process in place for recording this information. However, the team would welcome anecdotal data from your own experiences of why people have left. This information will still inform our response and will feature in the final report.
We appreciate there are sensitivities in sharing this information. The team would like to reassure senior staff that any information sent should be anonymised. Exit interview feedback will be grouped, with no organisations named.
If you have a HR lead within your school/academy, we would recommend sharing this information with them. Please send three to four paragraphs or bullet points with your feedback by email to teachportsmouth@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
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Portsmouth, City of Languages logo competition |
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We are a city, shaped by history and our relationship with the sea, including welcoming new members to our communities, who bring new languages and new cultures. We would like to promote and celebrate this amazing superpower of learning and speaking languages and do this under the banner of Portsmouth ~ City of Languages.
We already have a webpage on the Portsmouth Education Partnership (PEP) website, but we now need a logo, to use when we do something Portsmouth language-wise. Something that tells the world how proud we are of the languages and cultures in our city.
Can you create a drawing or a picture that we can use as our logo? There will be certificates for the finalists, and prizes for the winning design.
The deadline for entries is midday on Friday 21 June 2024.
Zellar Green Schools competition |
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Zellar, Earth Cubs, Water Plus Ltd, and Biffa have teamed up to reward your sustainability achievements. Enter the Zellar Green Schools competition today for a chance to win £1,000 towards your next green project and other amazing green prizes to help your school reduce energy, waste and water.
The competition closes on Sunday 16 June 2024.
Good Ofsted rating for Portsdown Primary School |
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Congratulations to Portsdown Primary School for achieving a 'Good' rating following a recent Ofsted school inspection. In their report, inspectors highlighted:
"Pupils are proud of their school. Some pupils face challenges in life and are supported well by the school because it creates an inclusive, safe culture. Pupils enjoy warm relationships with their caring staff. The school sets high expectations of pupils’ behaviour. They are polite, welcoming and engage well during lessons."
Portsmouth Primary Heads Conference |
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The Portsmouth Primary Heads Conference will take place on Wednesday 22 May 2024 at Village Hotel Portsmouth. The theme is 'planning for the new academic year.'
Further details and the agenda can be found here.
ALL Portsmouth Primary Hub meeting |
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The next meeting of the ALL Portsmouth Primary Hub will take place online on Thursday 20 June 2024 at 4pm.
This session will focus on 'valuing poetry in the primary languages classroom' and Angela Smith will share the amazing ideas she included in her presentation at the ALL Language World Conference in March.
Full of practical ideas to use across key stage 2, this presentation will show how poetry can bring language learning to life for young learners.
Please confirm your attendance by emailing lizlord0502@gmail.com.
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HAF Fun Pompey - Referrals |
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The professional service referral form and an information sheet for the 2024 HAF Fun Pompey programme are now available.
These should be completed for vulnerable families who are not eligible for benefits related free school meals (FSM). Families who are eligible for FSM will be able to book via the booking system (via Eequ) when the summer programme launches on Monday 10 June 2024.
New referrals can now be made up until Monday 10 June 2024 for the summer 2024 programme. If a child was approved access to non-FSM places for the HAF programme in 2023 or Easter 2024 there is no need to apply again - these families will be able to book directly via Eequ.
The priorities for access to non-FSM spaces are:
- Financially vulnerable families
- Children with a Child Protection Plan
- Children experiencing trauma at home
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the team at haf@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
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Funding advice for community projects in Portsmouth |
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For community organisations looking to make great ideas happen this year, join us at our next Neighbourhood CIL Fund advice session. Projects that can qualify include:
- buying new equipment for a community group
- building and open space improvements to existing community spaces
- community cultural project
- street furniture
- safety infrastructure
- biodiversity projects
Funding awards of £500 upwards depending on where the project is located.
Our friendly informal one-to-one session is a 30-minute advice session on Neighbourhood CIL Funding opportunities for community projects located within Portsmouth. The session will take place on Tuesday 4 June 2024, 9.30am - 3.30pm at Portsmouth Business Centre, PO3 5QT.
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