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Inclusion
Relational and Restorative Practice - new resources and opportunities |
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New: The Summit Series 2025 (starting Thursday 30 January 2025)
Created in consultation with colleagues in schools to support the embedding and development of Relational and Restorative Practice (R&RP). Each term there will be one 'themed' based session and one development session. The themed sessions are for anyone leading on developing R&RP in their setting (the first one is on Implementing Circles). The development sessions are for senior and middle leaders using a coaching/action learning model to support the embedding of R&RP. See the course flyer for full details, dates and booking information.
R&RP experience morning
If you've not been already, you are invited to attend an R&RP experience morning at Trafalgar School for headteachers. What does a relational and restorative school feel like? To secure your place, please email Nikki.Ledwidge@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. The sessions are 8am - 12.30pm (including lunch). Please choose one of the following dates:
- Monday 3 February 2025
- Monday 17 March 2025
- Monday 31 March 2025
- Monday 28 April 2025
- Monday 7 July 2025
The R&RP Portsmouth Leaders Programme Cohort 3
One day, every half term for 10 sessions - fully funded, starting in May 2025. With this additional group we'll have more than 50% of Portsmouth headteachers on the programme. If you are not already on the list and would like to know more, please contact Rebecca.Mason@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. Full details for those who have already expressed their interest will be circulated before half term.
Young carers on the spring school census 2025 |
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Please ensure that your school includes information about your young carers on this spring's census. It's highly likely that young carers attend every school across the country. Unfortunately, in 2024 spring census data, 72% of schools recorded that they had no young carers on role. Please help to improve the identification of young carers in Portsmouth, and in doing so, the support that they receive from your school and other services.
Information to support the process is available on the Young Carers in Schools website.
If you would like to find out more about identifying young carers in your school, please contact Portsmouth Young Carers Service at youngcarers@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Royal Navy nurturing programme |
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Home-Start Portsmouth is delivering a 5-week parenting group which empowers parents to build on positive relationships, reflect on their parenting style and create a toolkit of strategies. This group provides a confidential and friendly place to come each week, meet other parents who understand military life and offer some vital skills for your parenting journey.
The next course starts on Wednesday 29 January 2025, 10am - 12pm at Cockleshell Naval Centre. There is a free creche for under 5s.
Please email office@hsportsmouth.org.uk for further information.
Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) training course 2025 |
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The Educational Psychology Team are hosting an ELSA training course over six separate days starting in February 2025. The course is primarily for teaching assistants/ learning mentors who wish to support children and young people in all aspects of emotional literacy.
Topics covered will be building relationships, social and friendship skills, self-esteem, emotional regulation, anxiety, neurodiversity, loss and bereavement and emotional wellbeing. Trainee ELSAs will also learn specific techniques such as active listening and writing social stories.
The training will be held at The Training & Learning Centre, The Portsmouth Academy, St Marys Road, Portsmouth over six days (all Wednesdays) on 5 February, 26 February, 26 March, 30 April, 11 June and 25 June 2025.
The cost will be £575 per delegate. Please note there is also an ongoing commitment to attend supervision sessions following training to maintain the ELSA status. See the course leaflet for details about the ELSA role and upcoming training.
The course can be booked through the Portsmouth Traded Services website (course code PLG2-1124-T001) or by emailing Philippa Wilson at Philippa.Wilson@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Portsmouth Parent Board |
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Being a parent and carer is one of the most rewarding experiences but it can also be extremely difficult and lonely at times. The Portsmouth Parent Board are a passionate group of parents who understand these challenges and aim to help all families within Portsmouth by acting as a bridge between children and young people’s services and the local community.
The board act as representatives for issues that families in the local community may come up against; by collecting information from the local community through surveys, use of social media and local interaction. This information is then taken to the various meetings, forums, events and consultations linked to the Children’s Trust Board; helping to achieve the aim of making positive changes around children and young people’s services.
There is also a monthly Parent Board meeting where the board members get together to share any information they have picked up over the last month and plan how best to distribute any key messages to the community.
Some of the areas that we cover are:
- Education
- Mental health
- Special educational needs
- Looked after children
For further information, please visit the Portsmouth Parent Board website, phone 023 9273 4400 or email office@hsportsmouth.org.uk.
Mental Health Leads Forum - 5 February 2025 |
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The next Mental Health Leads Forum will take place on Wednesday 5 February 2025, 3.30pm - 5pm. Join us for an event that includes insightful discussions and networking with fellow professionals with a passion for promoting good mental health in schools. For this forum we have guest speaker Kat Smithson who is the lead Family Therapist for Portsmouth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs).
This in-person event will be held at Trafalgar School, providing a conducive environment for learning and collaboration.
All senior mental health leads are welcome, we would also welcome other members of the school team including pastoral support, SENCO, or anyone with a passion for supporting children’s mental health in school.
School improvement
Nominations now open for the Teach Portsmouth Awards 2025 |
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 Teach Portsmouth is pleased to announce that nominations for the Teach Portsmouth Awards 2025 are now open! The event makes its triumphant return to Portsmouth Guildhall on Thursday 12 June 2025 to celebrate the outstanding contributions education professionals make to the lives of children and young people in the city. 12 award categories celebrate the variety of education practice in Portsmouth.
How do I nominate?
Nominations must be submitted through the online form. Please be aware that the form does not save entries as you go. You can download a Word document template which allows you to collate entries before transferring them into the form.
Our FAQ guide to nominating for schools and colleges explains everything you need to know about the process, from how to submit your nomination to what the shortlisting panel looks for in a successful entry.
When is the deadline?
Nominations close on Wednesday 12 February 2025 at 4pm.
If you have any questions, please contact teachportsmouth@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Upcoming digital opportunities |
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Technology for all: Cyber Confidence in a Digital World – Tuesday 11 February 2025
Following the success of our citywide cyber training last year, this will now become an annual event, which will be available to all schools and colleges across the city. This year, we are pleased to welcome back local experts Holly Foxcroft and Jay Jay Davey, who many of you have met through the Digital City Project. We are also pleased to welcome to the city Jake Moore, who many of you will recognise from the BBC.
The event is being held at Fort Purbrook and has been split into two sessions: one for technical teams and then for school leaders, digital champions, safeguarding leads and business managers. More details available here.
The event has been fully funded for those schools with a Silver, Gold or Trust Level Digital SLA and at a fantastic price of £25 per person (or £30 to include lunch) for those who do not buy into Digital Support or are outside of the PEIA area.
Secure your space via the form or email Gemma at info@portsmouththedigitalcity.co.uk.
Technology for all: Quick Wins for Reducing School Admin Workloads – Friday 14 February 2025
As the final part of our citywide AI series, we have put together a session for admin teams, which will be available to all schools and colleges across the city. This may also be useful for any senior leaders or digital leads who have not attended any previous AI sessions.
The event is being held at Portsmouth SCITT and has been split into two sessions to support working patterns within admin teams. More details available here.
The event has been fully funded for those schools with a Silver, Gold or Trust Level Digital SLA and at a fantastic price of £25 per person (or £30 to include lunch) for those who do not buy into Digital Support.
Secure your space via the form or email Gemma at info@portsmouththedigitalcity.co.uk.
Citywide Computing Week – Monday 10 February 2025
As per last year, we are pleased to be able to offer an exciting week of activities and opportunities for Computing Week. This includes:
- KS4 visit to CoPC
- Virtual Safer Internet Day Assemblies
- I Belong Events for our KS2 and KS3 Girls
- UTC Challenges
- Minecraft
More details and each individual sign up form can be found here.
Languages updates |
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Read the latest languages in Portsmouth update for information on:
- Institut Français: primary French upskilling course
- ALL Primary calligrams celebration 2025
- New EMAS research project
- Conference: Making the case for languages from primary
- and much more.
ALL Portsmouth Primary Hub and Portsmouth Language Leads meeting
The next ALL Portsmouth Primary Hub meeting will be held online on Wednesday 22 January 2025 at 4pm. Sue Cave will share her knowledge and experience about how best to teach and embed a phonics understanding in language lessons. The session is relevant for both primary and secondary practitioners. See the flyer for further details.
Ofsted report for King's Academy College Park (Junior) |
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A new Ofsted report for King's Academy College Park (Junior) is now available following a school inspection on 26 November 2024. The school received 'Good' judgements for quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management.
Inspectors highlighted:
"School leaders have high expectations for all pupils and staff. Pupils speak very positively
about their school. They live by the school’s values each day by showing independence
and kindness to one another. Pupils have confidence in the trusted adults in school. There
is a culture of positive behaviour, and the school is generally calm. Pupils develop keen
interest, curiosity and enjoyment in their learning."
Holocaust Memorial Day - 27 January 2025 |
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 Communities will come together to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on Monday 27 January 2025. HMD 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp of the Holocaust, during which 6 million Jews were murdered. This year will also mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's free, downloadable resources contain everything schools need to get involved with Holocaust Memorial Day. The HMD education guidelines for teachers provide a starting point for planning your HMD activities.
There is also a competition for secondary school students to learn about the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia by designing a memorial.
Royal Ballet & Opera CPD for primary teachers |
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Friday 14 February 2025, 9am - 3pm | Ark Dickens Primary Academy
This free CPD is part of the Royal Ballet & Opera’s award-winning Create & Sing programme, a curriculum-led teacher development programme designed for primary school teachers.
The team will take you through techniques for teaching singing and drama to build your students’ self-expression, creative collaboration, performance confidence, voice, movement, and memory skills.
- Free award-winning teacher training and resources.
- Developed in collaboration with teachers to meet their needs and those of their students.
- Classroom-based lesson plans and digital activities, with strong music and cross-curricular links.
- Enables students and teachers to gain a better understanding of singing and opera for pupils, unlocking their imagination and creativity.
- Teachers do not need any previous knowledge of opera in order to take part.
Spring school census - 16 January 2025 |
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The spring school census takes place on Thursday 16 January 2025. If your school has purchased the EIS SLA the deadline for census checking reports is Thursday 23 January 2025. Please ensure that you upload your census return to COLLECT by this deadline to enable the checking reports to be created and sent back to you. These reports will help you validate your data and ensure its accuracy.
If you cannot submit on time, please contact us ASAP. If your school is an academy that has purchased the EIS SLA please upload a copy of your school census to SSE by the deadline and inform us you have done so by emailing education.informationservices@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
All schools must have an approved return in COLLECT by Wednesday 12 February 2025. Please be aware that DfE may still require your school to make changes to your census after this date.
Please call 023 9284 1001 or email education.informationservices@portsmouthcc.gov.uk for further information.
Education Information Services (EIS) FFT Aspire training |
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During 2024/25, EIS are offering some more free training to schools that purchase the EIS SLA, or purchase access to FFT Aspire via EIS. This training will be led by a trainer from FFT. These sessions are designed for new staff or for colleagues who may need a refresher for the FFT's Aspire system.
All sessions will be run via Microsoft Teams. The secondary school session can be booked via the training and events area within the Portsmouth Traded Services website. The primary school session will also be available to book through the Traded Services website once the time and date have been confirmed.
Secondary schools
There will be a session on Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11am - 12pm. This will include:
- Using FFT Aspire for self-evaluation, based upon summer 2024 pupil-level data.
- Using FFT Aspire estimates to support target setting.
Primary schools
We plan to arrange a training session for primary schools in the spring term. This will be the rearranged session following the cancellation of the previously planned autumn term training session. This will include:
- Using FFT Aspire for self-evaluation, based upon summer 2024 pupil-level data.
- Using FFT Aspire estimates to support target setting.
For further information, please email: education.informationservices@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
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