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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
Summer holiday tips from the Naval Children's Charity |
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With the summer holidays approaching, the Naval Children's Charity have shared some challenges and tips for parents and caregivers who have to juggle work, life and all the practical challenges the six-week holiday presents.
Vaping awareness presentation |
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Portsmouth Youth Perspective Participation Group meets monthly to help make improvements to mental health services, support and access throughout Portsmouth. The group is youth-led where they decide on priority areas to focus on and work on in the group sessions and they also lead on projects of interest to them.
The group are interested in topics around addiction and raising awareness of these topics. In particular, the group had noticed a rise in young people and their peers who vape and addiction around vaping. They wanted to create a presentation to raise awareness of vaping to other young people in a way that is more appealing to young people than current information that gets shared on vaping.
This piece of work has been done in partnership with the Drug and Alcohol Service and Solent NHS Trust Public Health Nursing Team Southampton.
Please deliver this presentation to your pupils, going through the presentation slides and taking note of any notes attached to the slides to help support you in delivering the presentation.
If you have any questions, please contact Cara Lucas at Cara.Lucas@solent.nhs.uk.
Barnardo's wellbeing hub and cooking club |
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Barnardo's are offering two new hubs for children and young people aged 10-15 years:
Wellbeing hub
Rest & Breathe is a new youth club in Portsmouth. It is open access for any young people to come along, no commitment and completely free. It is a safe space to focus on homework and get support as well as a wellbeing hub.
A flyer to share with parent/carers can be downloaded here.
Cooking club
Free cooking classes for children and young people run from 4pm - 5.30pm each Wednesday at Pompey in the Community (term time only). It is completely free; you don't need to bring anything other than yourselves.
A flyer to share with parent/carers can be downloaded here.
Have your say on RSHE guidance |
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The 'Review of the RSHE Statutory Guidance' is open for consultation until 11 July 2024. This is a crucial opportunity for educators, parents, carers, and the public to review the proposal and help shape the final guidance.
We encourage you to submit your responses and make your voices heard. The Sex Education Forum has provided excellent guidance on how to complete the consultation, available here. This resource includes an easy-read option, as well as clear guidance for if you have 10 minutes or 30 minutes spare to respond.
Please email PublicHealth@portsmouthcc.gov.uk if you have any queries related to completing the consultation.
School improvement
The Children's Bookshow |
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The Children's Bookshow is coming to New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth on Tuesday 12 November 2024 with the award-winning author/illustrator Sam Usher. His performance will be suitable for years 1 and 2 and will last approximately one hour.
Creator of a long running series of delightful picture books about a boy and his grandfather including Rain, Free and most recently Zoom, Sam will be drawing live for the children and showing the audience his illustrations as he reads his stories.
Tickets are £7 per child and adult. There is no charge for adults accompanying children on a 1:1 basis. Every child attending will receive a free copy of Sam's book Zoom when they exit the theatre.
There are also a limited amount of free in-school workshops (worth £500) with Sam Usher if you purchase 30 or more tickets to Sam's show. The free workshop is for one class of 30 children and Sam will come to your school and work creatively with a class of children.
To register your interest, please email Katy Webster at katyw@thechildrensbookshow.com.
How to be safe near and in the water |
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The RNLI have put together a suite of FREE teaching ideas and materials to help you engage children young people with essential lifesaving water safety lessons in schools and youth groups. You’ll find videos, guided discussions, problem solving activities and more specifically tailored for primary and secondary school aged children.
Portsmouth's education workforce celebrate long service at awards ceremony |
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 A special event for those who have worked in the city's schools for over two decades was held at Portsmouth Guildhall on Wednesday 26 June with afternoon tea and an awards ceremony.
87 recipients from 23 schools attended the event alongside city leaders from Portsmouth City Council.
Jennese Alozie, CEO at the University of Chichester Academy Trust and Nys Hardingham, CEO at Salterns Academy Trust presented trophies and certificates to award recipients as co-sponsors of the event.
Teach Portsmouth organised the event as a way to recognise and reward those who have supported children, young people and families across primary, secondary and special schools for 20 years or more.
Those who attended received a trophy, certificate and programme as a memento from this special day. A big thank you goes to our wonderful sponsors including University of Chichester Academy Trust and Salterns Academy Trust for making the event possible.
The Teach Portsmouth website has now been updated with photos from the day.
Portsmouth Primary STEM Conference |
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Hampshire and Dorset Science Learning Partnership is inviting teachers in Portsmouth schools for free to attend the Portsmouth Primary STEM Conference.
The event is on Monday 8 July from 9:30am - 3:30pm at the Training and Learning Centre at The Portsmouth Academy.
A series of workshops will be led by
- The Primary Science Teaching Trust
- The Primary Science Quality mark regional lead
- Hants and Dorset Science Learning Partnership
- School of Noise
- STEMUnity
- STEM Learning
We have a few spaces left. Limited tickets remaining. Sign up for FREE here. Click the link below and use code EP2541 at the checkout.
All Schools' Contacts: Please update |
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Please can all schools update their key contacts on the All Schools Contacts spreadsheet here in anticipation of staff changes at the end of term. This enables PCC and the PEP to direct communications to the right people, including Subject Network groups and PEIA opportunities. We have added a 'finance' column and will be working to ensure that our internal systems are sending finance information to the correct people so that you can claim PEIA funding and grants!
N.B. there are a number of different tabs, so do please do check them all and double check the spelling of email addresses.
Neurodiversity team training programme (autumn term) |
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The neurodiversity team are pleased to offer the following training in the autumn term 2024. The training offer will be a rolling programme of training throughout the 2024/25 academic year. For more information, please download the pack.
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