Early Literacy Webinars
Join Newcastle Research School and St Michaels English Hub for a series of free webinars focusing on early literacy. Full details are here.
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Join Newcastle Research School and St Michaels English Hub for a series of free webinars focusing on early literacy. Full details are here.
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The North East Cultural Learning Fund (formerly known as the Culture Bridge North East Fund) provides grants of up to £2,000 to support collaborations between education and youth settings, arts practitioners and cultural organisations anywhere in the North East. Previous awards have included school trips to museums, galleries and theatres, as well as direct
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Hello and welcome to Kooth’s and Qwell’s December newsletter for education staff. We hope you’re well and are looking forward to a restful break over the Christmas season! Thank you for all your support in helping us raise awareness of Kooth this year. So far this year, more than 130,000 children and young people have signed up
Northumberland – Kooth and Qwell December Newsletter – Education Staff Read More »
Dear Headteacher Hotpod yoga in Morpeth are kindly offering staff in Northumberland schools a free class over the festive period to support with well-being after a long and challenging term. Please see attached a voucher which can be distributed to all members of staff.
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Join our interactive online events and give your students an opportunity to ask questions of world-leading space engineers as well as taking part in fun engineering challenges. Our guest speakers from NASA, the European and the UK Space Agencies are working together to return humans to the moon. Suitable for key stages 2
Aspire to Engineer: To the Moon Read More »
Please find attached the Northumberland Tobacco Control Partnership responses to the consultation which schools are welcome to cut/paste/adapt for use. The link to the consultation is https://consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/en/65201ed1f3410a69990d3081 – we really need as many people as possible to respond in order to ensure this vital legislation will be passed. Why should I respond to
Stopping the Start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation Read More »
The current 2023/24 Service to Schools SLA portal will be unavailable to schools with effect from noon on Friday 1 December 2023 to allow for necessary updates ahead of the opening of the updated portal for 2024/25. This will go live to schools mid-January 2024. If you have any queries in relation
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This consultation asks questions on proposed action the UK Government and devolved administrations will take to protect future generations from the harms of smoking, by creating the first smokefree generation. It also asks about proposals to crack down on youth vaping and ensure the law is enforced. The proposed actions
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Northumberland’s Schools Forum met on 22 November 2023 to consider the information in relation to the current SEN position and also in relation to School Funding for 2024/25. It supported a transfer of up to 0.5% from the Schools Block to the High Needs Block in light of the significant
2024/25 SEN and School Funding Consultation and National Funding Formula Update Read More »
25th November marked the beginning of the annual 16 days of action and activism to eliminate violence against women and girls. Bold Voices have created 16 cards with 16 messages about gender equality to discuss with young people during the 16 Days. They will appear daily on the web site (sign up to
ACT for Youth is a product (complete with lesson plans to aid delivery) aimed at 11–16-year-olds to teach them the Run, Hide, Tell advice in an age-appropriate way. The Government is committed to ensuring that children, young people, and adult learners are safe from terrorism. This is why the Department
November Club is a theatre company based in Morpeth working across Northumberland in non-theatre spaces, funded by Northumberland County Council & Arts Council England. Please see our website here for current work. We are creating new, immersive theatre for indoor & outdoor locations over the next 2 years in which Northumberland communities will
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Protecting Our Planet Day (POP) is the inspiring live-streamed event for schools brought to you by the UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) at STEM Learning, and in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency. POP23 takes place on Thursday 30 November, from 9am to 4.30pm. You and your classroom can
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Dear Colleagues What motivates preservice teachers to embark on a career in education? What difference has the national tutoring programme made to pupils’ outcomes? How effective are careers education and guidance in schools in England? What difference does a ‘highly effective’ headteacher make to pupil outcomes and staff retention? These
Education Policy and Research Service November 2023 Read More »
The survey is live – Northumberland Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire (HRBQ) 2023 – There is still time to sign up ! – don’t miss out on taking part Northumberland County Council’s Public Health Team are delighted to offer schools the opportunity to participate in the Health-Related Behaviour Questionnaire (HRBQ). This
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This week the Education Welfare Service is pleased to launch a Northumberland schools’ attendance campaign to promote good school attendance across the county, and to support the Attendance Strategy 2023-25. Education Welfare Officers will start to deliver banners for school railing, posters, pens and pin badges to schools that have
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Dear Colleagues, The School Organisation and Resources team has created a padlet, following a successful inclusion summit on 15 September 2023 at the Holiday Inn, Seaton Burn. Many schools attended the event in person and enjoyed the experience of learning from some exceptional keynote speakers as well as from each
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Domestic Abuse and Healthy relationships -Funded PSHE opportunity : Women’s Aid has published research looking at children and young people’s understanding of Domestic Abuse to inform the design of education about relationships. Here is the report The report includes findings from two surveys with 7-18 years old and 18-25 years
Free training and classroom delivery for all Key Stages regarding Healthy relationships Read More »
Last week to register. Northumberland County Councils Climate Action Plan 2021-23 is about to expire and development of the Climate Action Plan for 2024-26 is commencing. With this comes an opportunity to capture the voice of our young people, who will be living with the effects of climate change for
Last week to register – Northumberland County Councils Climate Action Plan Read More »
Thursday, 27th June 2024 Celebrating difference; building bridges The seven North East EAL teams are proud to jointly present our inaugural North East EAL conference on Thursday 27th June 2024. Newcastle Falcon’s Rugby Club will host the event; delegate fees (£75) cover a wide choice of workshops, free parking, lunch and light
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Please find details below of the Health Improvement training courses being delivered in 2023/24. All courses are currently delivered over Microsoft Teams, unless otherwise stated. Please also see the attached document which gives further details on all of our courses. Please feel free to forward this email to any of your
Health Improvement Training Programme – 1st December 2023 to 31st March 2024 Read More »
Please find flyers attached for AET training information and dates of sessions for Northumberland schools.
AET – Cleaswell Hill School Read More »
Free workshop on 28 November 4-4.45pm on teams. We have been working with Professor Deidre Heddon from Glasgow University to create the Big Northumberland Gear Change Creative Walkbook which was inspired by her project The Walkbook: Recipes for walking & wellbeing (gla.ac.uk) We’d now like to make a schools version, full of walking
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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) needs your help to improve guidance on dealing with infectious diseases at schools. We want to understand how guidance can help you keep your children, young people and staff healthy and safe. We want to hear from welfare officers, receptionists, headteachers, admin staff, and
Guidance on Infectious Diseases for All Schools Read More »
This is taken from the weekly Safeguarding briefing from Andrew Hall. If you would like to receive your own copy of the Safeguarding Briefing, simply go to: www.safeguardingbriefing.co.uk Ofsted have recently published an update to their safeguarding inspection handbook, explaining how they inspect safeguarding. In addition to the published blog post,
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20th November 4.15pm – 5pm: Solar across the school estate. Join the NSSN to hear about how Cheviot Trust is putting solar across their estate, reducing their energy costs long term and lowering their carbon footprint. We will be hearing from Mark Tait, Chief Operating Officer, on how this project came
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Thanks for your interest in the pack. Your information will be stored by the Climate Change Team to track the types of schools/businesses that are showing an interest in the information. They may contact you with items that they think are relevant to you in future.
Northumberland Schools Climate Resource Pack Read More »
Please find attached Call for Rural Projects in Northumberland.
Call for Rural Projects in Northumberland Read More »
Dear School This email is a gentle reminder to inform School Admissions when children start or leave a school. If a child is allocated, please inform us of their start date. We also need to know if they don’t start. If a child leaves a school, please inform us. Unless the
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I would like to invite you to our new KoothTalk sessions where we will be covering key topics that affect young people. The Kooth Talk sessions will be facilitated by members of our engagement team and will last 30 minutes. Post session, we will send out a pdf version of the slide
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