Page summary - How national restrictions to control the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) impact education, childcare and children’s social care settings. Change made - We have updated the guidance on out-of-school activities and wraparound childcare, clinically extremely vulnerable children and staff, and extra-curricular activities in schools, and added clarification on... read more →
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Please follow this link to see what the project has achieved.
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"Is fostering for me?" online event - find out how you can help local children and young people Would you like to work with local children and young people? Have you heard about paid professional foster care? We are looking for people from all walks of life to work as different types of foster carers... read more →
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Attention School Business Managers Help the Rise (The Active Partnership for Northumberland and Tyne & Wear) gain insight around employee wellbeing or if you want any further support around workplace health please get in touch with Rebecca Bennett on rebecca.bennett@wearerise.co.uk. Please complete this short survey
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The BBC have produced a diagram of timelines for families to understand who should isolate for how long in certain circumstances. It might be useful to share with parents/pupils. The timeline is here.
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The Northumberland Agreed Syllabus is due for renewal and relaunch in September 2021. To achieve this SACRE would like to invite RE teachers from across the age ranges to join the working party who will undertake this piece of work. If you are interested please contact Dave Cookson by December... read more →
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As part of the NTCA STEM ‘Inspire’ project Kielder Observatory are hosting a “STEMployer talk” - a livestream intended for in-class viewing on Tuesday 24 November between 13.10 and 14.10. To book go to : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/north-of-tyne-stemployers-science-with-kielder-tickets-129716470455 This session will cover a basic introduction to astronomy and taking a look at... read more →
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We (the DfE) are writing to inform you that today we have updated our Guidance for full opening: special schools and other specialist settings. Overall the guidance has been updated and refreshed to reflect that we are now coming towards the end of the autumn term and the expectation is that... read more →
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One of the School Improvement Team attended a webinar about the National Tutoring Programme recently. A summary of the session is available here.
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It transpires that the DfE stopped sign up to the Early Career Framework at October half term. Nor will there be an opportunity to sign up in January/Easter. The reasons for this have not been made clear as yet. Although you cannot now sign up to an ECF provider the... read more →