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- Message from Phil Leivers
- Covid-19 update
- Early Years
- Health and Safety
- Information
- Safeguarding
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- DfE daily update
Dear Colleagues,
We are awaiting the publication of the revised school Covid -19 guidance, due later this afternoon. I’m sure we are all anticipating significant changes following the Prime Minister’s announcement last night.
A reminder that there is an Engagement session planned for later this afternoon and for tomorrow. This will be an opportunity for you to raise any concerns or issues you have with Public Health colleagues and will allow us to gather feedback to give to the DfE. Look forward to seeing you later.
Hot off the press, DfE have just published the revised guidance https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak
Best wishes
Phil
Dear schools
We would be very grateful if you could email your parents with the attached message, as part of the ‘big push’ to get everyone vaccinated as soon as possible. Thanks for your help.
City of Wolverhampton Council Public Health Team
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Neeraj Malhotra
Consultant In Public Health
Neeraj.Malhotra@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Early Years Update session ‘Ofsted’
The next early years update session is being held on tomorrow Wednesday 7 July 9.30-11.30am please follow the link below to access the session.
During this session members of the Ofsted team will be presenting and discussing Ofsted inspections and the new Early Years statutory framework. Hopefully this session will answer a lot of questions and remove some of the myths. This session is for those working in the private sector and in schools.
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join on your computer or mobile app
Click here to join the meeting
Childminder update session will be held on Thursday 16 July 7.00-8.30pm the link will be in next weeks bulletin
Lead person in the LA to contact:
DfE Early Years Attendance Survey
Please complete
As you are aware the DfE survey is due to be completed for your attendance today, Tuesday 6 July. The survey is based on actual attendance on a Tuesday only. Click here to access the survey.
This survey needs to be completed by 9.00am on a Thursday morning in readiness for submission to the DfE Thursday afternoon. It is really important that you complete this survey. A huge thank you for your continued support with this.
Lead person in the LA to contact
Training Slides
PVI session on Physical Development 30 June
Childminder session on Physical Development 1 July
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Stacey Henderson
Early Years Senior Advisor Stacey.Henderson@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Reporting of confirmed cases to the Health and Safety Team – Reminder
In light of Public Health’s announcement last week (1 July) concerning the reporting procedure for positive cases, please can I urge that all maintained schools continue to report all cases within a member of staff to the Health and safety team. This is required for both monitoring and potentially formal reporting.
To make this process as simple as possible for schools, you are not required to use a specific form for reporting and can simply cut and paste the attached into an email and send it to natalie.barrow@wolverhampton.gov.uk
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Natalie Barrow
Health and Safety Advisor
natalie.barrow@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Digital Divide – Education Provider Survey
CWC are relaunching the ‘Digital Divide Education Provider Survey’. We encourage schools to complete the survey, which should take roughly 15 minutes to fill in.
We will use the information provided to support us in directing funding and resources to support digital inclusion for children and young people across the city.
The survey is now open and will close on July 15.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Laura Jude
School Improvement Advisor for Equalities
07973715929
Laura.Jude@wolverhampton.gov.uk
City students wow judges with their Solutions for the Planet
Pupils have demonstrated how to put the planet first after wowing the judges at the finals of a national environmental contest.
Students from Heath Park School and Colton Hills Community School made the grade in this year's Solutions for the Planet competition, which encourages 11 to 14-year-olds to come up with Big Ideas to solve sustainability issues that matter to them.
Click here for find out more!
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Louise Mututa
School Improvement Advisor
Louise.Mututa@wolverhampton.gov.uk
NQT Summer Assessment Forms due
NQT summer term assessment forms are due in on 12 July 2021. Both second and final term assessment forms are attached for your convenience. if you have any concerns or queries please do not hesitate to contact Jo Horlock.
Final NQT Assessment Form
First - Second NQT Assessment Form
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Jo Horlock
NQT and Assessment Advisor
01902 556576
Jo.Horlock@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Update on Safeguarding
The DfE have published today, a draft of the revised KCSIE guidance
(KCSIE September 2021 - FOR INFORMATION). This is for information so schools and
colleges can plan for the commencement of the guidance on 1 September 2021.
Until the new revised guidance commences on 1 September 2021, the existing
statutory guidance - Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020 is still in force and is
what schools and colleges must continue to have regard to.
They have also published alongside a draft of the revised stand-alone
advice 2021. This is for information only. Until the new revised advice commences
on 1 September 2021, the existing advice Sexual violence and sexual harassment
between children in schools and colleges, is still in force and is what schools and
colleges should continue to have regard to.
To support schools we have commissioned Ann Brown, former headteacher, to update the relevant documents and presentations for schools to have in time for the beginning of the Autumn term.
Following further discussions and consultations I am now in the process of finalising the job description and person specification to recruit to the vacant Education Safeguarding officer post so that there will be both a universal offer with the addition of a SLA for schools to purchase. Thank you for your support in this development.
Phil Leivers
Head of Education Excellence.
Summer Training
Please find attached Education Excellence's Summer Training Brochure outlining all our training for the summer term.
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Mark Smith
CLL Senior Advisor
Mark.Smith2@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Widening the Curriculum
Many primary and secondary schools have expressed an interest in ensuring they promote and celebrate diversity through their curriculum offer.
In the autumn term, Education Excellence would like to support schools with this. We plan to set up working groups to look at different subjects and curriculum areas and produce resources that can be used to diversify the curriculum and present a wider and more multi-cultural education for all pupils.
This work will begin with a Teams meeting in September. It is open to colleagues from Early Years, Primary and Secondary schools and settings. If you are interested in being part of this work, please can you express your interest by contacting either:
Laura Jude for secondary schools
Claire Fereday for primary schools
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Laura Jude
School Improvement Advisor for Equalities
Laura.Jude@wolverhampton.gov.uk
&
Claire Fereday
Literacy & Language Teacher Advisor
Claire.fereday@wolverhampton.gov.uk
YO! Summer Festival
The YO! Summer Festival (previously known as Holiday Squad) is taking place in the city this summer. Hundreds of FREE activities will be on offer for children, young people and families. Promotional flyers for the YO! Summer Festival will be delivered to your school next week. Please distribute these to your pupils at your earliest convenience.
 Lead person to contact in LA:
Abigail Reed
Marketing Officer
Abigail.reed@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Free On-line Smart Materials workshop for Key Stage 3 students
SMART Materials focuses on materials which change shape, colour or some other factor in response to external effects, but revert back to their original form when this external effect is taken away. The workshop will include an experiment, and kit will be sent out to participating classes to complete the experiment. Both the workshop and kit is free of charge, as it is all being sponsored by RAF Youth and STEM.
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This is a free workshop trial for 1 class of up to 30 students.
Interested schools should contact us at learning-cosford@rafmuseum.org and let us know the number of students and adults, year group and preferred dates and times.
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Jo Horlock
NQT and Assessment Advisor
01902 556576
Jo.Horlock@wolverhampton.gov.uk
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Science Learning Partnership
Secondary Science Subject leaders' network meeting RC219C26 - 8 July, 16:00-17:30
The next Science Learning Partnership network meeting for Secondary Science Subject leaders' is on 8 July, 16:00-17:30.
It is funded/free and is open to all.
Secondary Science Subject leaders' network meeting RC219C26 8 July, 16:00-17:30
To book on please use this link: https://www.stem.org.uk/cpd/483826/secondary-science-subject-leaders-network-meeting
Agenda:
Ofsted Science Survey – a closer look
Updates – CLEAPSS and exam boards
The new ECT programme – impact for science
Discussion groups – minding and filling the gaps
Y11 2021-22
KS3- KS4 ready
Post pandemic pedagogy toolbox
Freebies and new resources to look out for
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Louise Mututa
School Improvement Advisor
Louise.Mututa@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Behaviour Intervention Programmes at Lawnswood Campus
In September we are offering two Behaviour Intervention Programmes for both Primary and Secondary schools in a quiet space on Lawnswood Campus called Lawnswood Learning Link:
- Building Behaviour 4 Learning Programme – Monday to Friday, 6 Weeks.
- Exclusion Prevention Programme – Monday to Friday, 1 session to 10 sessions.
The feedback from schools regarding these programmes this year has been excellent. The Exclusion Prevention Programme has been the most popular programme; reducing fixed term exclusions, preventing permanent exclusions, unpicking the behaviour and supporting young people with a toolkit of strategies for self-regulation and behaviour management is absolutely the way forward!
Please see the attached leaflets (leaflet 2) for further information.
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Rachael Brown
Executive Headteacher Lawnswood Campus
rbrown@lawnswoodcampus.co.uk
01902 552701
As previously advertised:
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Thank you for your help!
 Lead person to contact in the LA:
Suzanne Dunn
CLL Teacher Advisor
Suzanne.dunn@wolverhampton.gov.uk
01902 554368
As previously advertised:
School Improvement Workshop for Head Teachers and Educational leaders - Thursday 8 July 2021
The next School Improvement Workshop for Head Teachers and Educational Leaders is being held on Thursday 8 July 2021 (9:30am- 2:30pm) with a Head Teachers drop in session available afterwards.
The agenda for the SIA day can be found here
The SIA day will be delivered through teams and participants can book on through WVES.
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Louise Mututa
School Improvement Advisor
Louise.Mututa@wolverhampton.gov.uk
As previously advertised:
Art and Design Conference
23 September 2021
1pm-4pm
GTG Training Centre
We are delighted to announce that the postponed Art and Design Conference is finally confirmed for 23rd September 2021 and will be led by Liz MacFarlane – however due to current social distancing restrictions there will be a limit of 40 people who can attend and so it will be on a first come first served basis through WVES – although this may change and so there will be a waiting list held.
Those who were booked onto the original date will automatically be transferred across.
Find out more information here!
This conference is open to Art and Design Subject leaders/teachers in Primary and Special Schools/Academies
Lead person to contact in the LA:
Louise Mututa
School Improvement Advisor
Louise.Mututa@wolverhampton.gov.uk
2 July – Coronavirus – Daily update to all early years, children’s social care, schools and further education providers - click here.
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