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Announcing an extended Voice North East Project in September 2024!

Voice North East was launched in September 2023 to respond to feedback from schools in the North East. School teachers and leaders were pointing to oracy as a key priority for development in their pupils. Bringing together 100 schools of all phases in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland, Voice North East’s goal is to provide a supported […]

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Call-out for Schools: Cultural Match Programme 2024/5 – worth £3000

TWAM Regional Learning Team are seeking Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland schools with early career teachers (which can also include teachers in their first five years of teaching) to apply for the Cultural Match Programme. Successful schools will be given a £3,000 budget to work with a Creative Producer to

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Linking Leaders of Secondary Science – fully funded

We would like to invite expressions of interest in an exciting new fully-funded action research project for curriculum leaders in secondary Science. Building on the successes of the Linking Leaders project for primary headteachers and middle leaders, North Tyneside, Newcastle and Northumberland Local Authorities, alongside North East Combined Authority, are

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Northumberland SEND survey is closing soon – families encouraged to have their say

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

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Autumn Pupil Premium Network Meetings are now open for bookings

The  Pupil Premium Network meetings provide an opportunity to hear from the School Improvement Team on national and countywide pupil premium/disadvantage issues, and discuss pertinent issues with colleagues from other schools. Main agenda:  Select from the following links below, to attend your localised meeting: Monday 04/11/2024 – 1:30-4:00pm Pupil Premium

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News alert: School Partnerships Programme Opens for Applications

The Ogden Trust is accepting applications for new school partnerships starting in 2025-26.  The School Partnerships programme offers funding and support to groups of schools in England that are committed to enhancing physics teaching and learning. The programme provides funding for schools over a period of five years. To be

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Resources for teachers who would like to talk to their pupils about the unrest in towns and cities in the UK over the summer

The events that took place over the summer may have impacted and affected the pupils you teach. Here are some of the resources that have been developed in response to the Southport attack and widespread violent disorder that followed. Picture News has produced a free, primary resource: Story: Over the summer, riots

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Last Chance for UK’s State Funded Schools to Apply for Grants to Improve Library Services

The Foyle Foundation is accepting applications from UK state schools and special schools until the end of September when their School Library Programme ends.  UK state schools and special schools can apply for grants of between £2,000 and £10,000. Priority is given to state funded primary schools (reception to end of

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Important information from Education Welfare – September 2024

The DfE guidance “working together to improve school attendance” became statutory on 19th August 2024.  This replaces all previous guidance and provides information about interventions available to address pupils’ poor attendance, pupil registers and attendance codes. The Department has published a very slightly updated version of the above guidance. There are no policy changes in the document,

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Prevent in education: training for designated safeguarding leads (DSLs)

DfE regional Prevent education coordinators (RPECs) support and improve Prevent delivery in each region of England. The RPECs offer large, virtual training sessions that are available to anyone working within an education setting in England. They focus on the implementation of Prevent and are designed primarily for those in dedicated safeguarding or Prevent

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NOW PUBLISHED – Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 

The latest version of Keeping Children Safe in Education has now been published. You can download it here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education–2 The content is almost as expected from the ‘for information’ version, published in May 2024. There are two changes areas to note: – Safer Recruitment for individuals who have lived or worked

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Northumberland Growing Healthy 0-19 Service

With the start of the new academic year 2024/25, we would like to take this opportunity to let colleagues, parents/carers, children & young people know about the Northumberland Growing Healthy 0-19 Service. Please find attached information about our offer for all families in Northumberland.  If you have any questions, please

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Calling all Northern Schools! 

Young people’s creative learning charity Mortal Fools are offering Northern schools’ FREE access to their award-winning Mental Health Education through storytelling intervention; MELVA. Express your interest in a free MELVA licence TODAY via: https://melva.org.uk/eoi/ Mortal Fools have funding from the North East Combined Authority in place to cover the cost of

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Places available – Youth Mental Health Awareness training on Thursday 5th September 2024

There are still places available on the Youth Mental Health Awareness training session on Thursday 5th September 2024, 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm, should you or anyone you know be interested in attending. Places on our courses must be booked through the online platform Learning Together, and you can book a

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Health Improvement (HIMP) Training Programme

Please find details of our training courses below.  Please also see the attached document which gives further details on all of our courses which are currently delivered over Microsoft Teams, unless otherwise stated. Please feel free to forward this email to any of your contacts who you think would be interested

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Free Online Courses for Parents – Solihull

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

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