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Inclusion
ELSA Network Quality Mark |
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The Educational Psychology team have once again been awarded the ELSA Network Quality Mark for 2025. This is an annual award and recognises the high standard the team provides in the delivery and evaluation of their ELSA training and supervision.
ELSAs (Emotional Literacy Support Assistants) continue to play an important role within schools in helping children and young people develop the skills to manage anxiety, self-esteem, emotional regulation, social skills and other areas of social and emotional need. Well done to all those members of the team who are involved with ELSA!
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Alternative & Additional Provision Directory update |
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Portsmouth City Council is continuing to process a number of quality assurance applications from tier 3 alternative/additional education providers. This week, four new providers have been added to the Directory after completing our 2-stage assurance process and being awarded PCC assured status. Please visit the directory to find out more about their offers. (Email APCommissioning@portsmouthcc.gov.uk to request access). We have now issued PCC assurance status to nine organisations.
As a reminder, if schools and/or local authority commissioning teams are looking to commission any of the providers listed on the directory, they must complete their own due diligence to assure themselves that the provider will keep their young person/people safe and provide good quality education.
If you have any questions about the work we are doing to quality assure tier 3 providers, you are welcome to contact Helena Kelsey (Alternative Provision Commissioning Manager) via email: Helena.Kelsey@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Preventing child-on-child sexual violence and sexual harassment |
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Introducing a new a toolkit developed in response to requests from schools: Preventing Child-on-Child Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment: A Toolkit for Schools and Colleges. This has been written by Jo Morgan engenderingchange.co.uk with input from young people and educators in Portsmouth.
The toolkit provides schools and colleges with the knowledge and strategies needed to proactively prevent child-on-child sexual violence and harassment. Practical, insightful, and grounded in real experiences, it’s designed to help you create safer learning environments.
Schools are encouraged to use this new toolkit alongside previously shared resources, including those from the PSHE association and the London Assembly:
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Moving Forward - 27 March 2025 |
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Moving Forward, an event showcasing services and employers across the city who support young people and adults with SEND will be returning this year on Thursday 27 March 2025 from 9.30am to 3pm at the Victory Suite, Fratton Park.
Suitable for young people with SEND (aged 14+) as they transition to adulthood and adults with a learning disability looking to explore opportunities, information will be available on education, employment, health, and community support.
Young people, adults, parents, carers and professionals can come along and learn more about the fantastic services available to those 14+ with SEND or a learning disability in Portsmouth. No need to book – just drop in!
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KoothTalks on SEND and neurodiversity |
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This March, join a series of live webinars on how Kooth and Qwell meets the needs of SEND and neurodivergent young people. The sessions will cover:
- Specific website features that could suit a SEND or neurodivergent user
- How we meet web accessibility guidelines
- Ways we keep users safe
- What happens when alternative or additional support might be needed
Book your place:
School improvement
Exhibit at the Teach Portsmouth Support and Teaching Assistant Jobs Fair |
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 Teach Portsmouth's next event, the Support and Teaching Assistant Jobs Fair, returns to Central Library (third floor) on Thursday 1 May 2025 from 10am - 11.45am and 12pm - 2pm. If your school has support vacancies, volunteering opportunities, or apprenticeships to promote, please consider exhibiting at the event.
Please email teachportsmouth@portsmouthcc.gov.uk by Friday 4 April 2025 to reserve your space.
Green Football’s Great Save is back |
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The UK’s biggest football campaign tackling climate change returns from 11 March to 2 April 2025 – and schools are invited to take part. This year, the focus is on sports kit. Over 100,000 tonnes of sportswear end up in landfill each year, but together, we can change that. By getting involved, your school can help make Green Football’s Great Save while also having fun, learning new skills, and supporting a greener future.
Three easy ways to get involved:
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In the classroom: Incorporate sustainability into your lessons with free worksheets for KS1, KS2, and KS3. Log your activities on the website to enter a prize draw and score green goals for your school’s favourite football team!
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Sew It to Save It: Host a sewing workshop in your class or after-school club! Be inspired by a video featuring Leeds forward Patrick Bamford testing out his own sewing skills and teach students a lifelong skill while giving old sports kit a new life.
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Ginormous jumble sale: Declutter your lost property and unused sports kit. Organise a school-wide jumble sale or swap shop to raise funds for your school. Donate non-uniform leftovers through The Salvation Army’s ‘Recycle With Michael’ scheme.
World Water Day live assembly for primary schools |
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Celebrate World Water Day and World Poetry Day with Southern Water's free live webinar for KS1 and KS2 on Friday 21 March 2025.
World Water Day has been an annual United Nations Observance since 1993. World Water Day is held every year on 22 March to celebrate water and inspire action to tackle global water inequality and ensure water resilience for everyone the future.
UNESCO first adopted 21 March as World Poetry Day in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard.
The beautiful poem ’Once Upon a Raindrop’ written by James Carter and illustrated by Nomoco, will be used to launch the interactive session, using this to then explore:
- What we use water for
- Where our water comes from
- Challenges on our water resources
- Water savings habits we can all take on
For more details and to sign up your class, please choose a time slot:
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