Governance

If you haven’t already done so, please remember to book a place on the Asbestos Awareness training course for yourself (headteacher as duty holder) and your Caretaker/Site Manager.  Facilities Services run course for schools in their SLA or alternatively training courses are bookable via Learning Together and are facilitated via Teams.  Current

The Services to Schools SLA Portal is now open for Schools to use in relation to their Service Level Agreement requirements for 2025/26, please see this link. Please take the time to review the information on the portal,  as in some cases services will have changed from that offered in the previous year. The basic process remains as it was last year – after reviewing the

Dear Governors, Happy New Year! The date for our first ‘virtual’ Briefing of the new year is Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 6:00pm – 7:30pm. As usual the briefing will be recorded for those of you who cannot join us or wish to view at a more convenient date/time. This information can be

Dear Governors, Happy New Year! The date for our first ‘virtual’ Briefing of the new year is Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 6:00pm – 7:30pm. As usual the briefing will be recorded for those of you who cannot join us or wish to view at a more convenient date/time. This information can be

Northumberland is reviewing and developing education provision for children with health and medical needs.  Feedback is invited from schools, education providers and local authority staff on the draft policy for arranging education for children with health and medical needs.  Please use the feedback form provided here and return it to

Please find attached the regular monthly funding ebulletin from the Regeneration Investment Team covering the latest external funding opportunities. You may forward this to colleagues who you think may be interested in future announcements, they can then use the ‘QR Code or link to subscribe to the Regeneration Programmes Investment Funding e-Bulletin’

Dear Governors, Happy New Year! The date for our first ‘virtual’ Briefing of the new year is Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 6:00pm – 7:30pm. As usual the briefing will be recorded for those of you who cannot join us or wish to view at a more convenient date/time. This information can be

Please see attached letter regarding emergency school closure.

Dear Governors, The date for our Autumn ‘virtual’ Briefing is Tuesday, 03 December 2024, 6:00pm – 7:00pm As usual the briefing will be recorded for those of you who cannot join us or wish to view at a more convenient date/time. This information can be found on our E-Courier, Northumberland Education Training

Suitable for all staff Mon 11th November 2024, online, 3.45pm-4.45pm This is a  non-technical session which discusses nationally recognised cyber security advice that can be applied to both work and home. These sessions highlight the importance of cyber security and outline simple, effective steps everyone can take to reduce the impact

Please see attached flyer for more information.

The DfE have updated the ‘test, exam and assessment results’ section. Some of the information which academies should publish has changed in that section. They have updated information for academies in the ‘behaviour policy’ section. They have also made changes to the ‘pupil premium’, ‘PE and sport premium’, ‘complaints policy’

The DfE updated the ‘test, exam and assessment results’ section. Some of the information which schools must publish has changed in that section. They have added detail on what schools should publish about governors in the ‘governance information’ section. They have also made changes to the ‘pupil premium’, ‘PE and

Welcome to Issue 7 of the Safer in Education newsletter, brought to you by the Virtual School Service on behalf of the local authority and safeguarding partnership (NCASP).

Dear All  We’re thrilled to invite you to our upcoming KoothTalks webinar for Local Services and Healthcare professionals on supporting young people with Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA). The webinar will detail how our digital platform can support young people presenting with EBSA, information from our Kooth Clinical Team and EBSA

As you may already be aware, Family Hubs have purchased a multi-user license for The Solihull Approach (inourplace.co.uk) which has FREE online courses dedicated to improving emotional health and wellbeing in parents, children, teenagers, adults and grandparents. Solihull have designed a campaign for schools to use to help promote this fantastic

Welcome to Kooth and Qwell’s October 2024 newsletter As we approach World Mental Health Day on the 10th of October, it’s a perfect time to reflect on any challenges you and your students face, especially with the recent changes in social media safety. According to a recent BBC article, nearly 60% of young people have experienced negative impacts from online

If you work in a school or education setting you can help the Northern Child Health and Wellbing Network understand current practices around support for children and young people (CYP) with asthma in schools. Completing our short survey will enable us to identify improvements to the lives of CYP with asthma

Ofsted has today published updates to its state-funded school inspection handbooks as well as its deferral, pausing and gathering additional evidence policy, ahead of routine school inspections returning on 23 September. From this term state-funded schools will not receive an overall effectiveness grade during graded inspections, following the decision by the

We want to hear from families to help shape the future of services for children and young people with SEND in Northumberland   Families are encouraged to have their say by completing an online survey through the Local Offer website and sharing their experiences about what is working well and what