Month: December 2017

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Governance SEND

Government announces more support for young people with SEND

The additional funding confirmed by Minister for Children and Families Robert Goodwill is to provide additional help for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The package of funding announced includes: 

  • £29 million to support councils and their local partners with implementation of the reforms to the SEND system;
  • £9.7 million to establish local supported internship forums; the specific purpose of these is to create;
  • work;placements for young people with SEND, with funding also on offer to train job coaches;
  • £4.6 million for Parent Carer Forums, to bring parents together with local decision makers.
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Schools

Woodside High School wins Stonewall Gold

Woodside High School has become the first London secondary school to win the prestigious Stonewall School Champion Gold award. Woodside High is only the sixth school ever to win the award, which gives greater recognition to schools tackling homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying and celebrating diversity.

Sir Ian McKellen visited Woodside High to celebrate this achievement. 

Research by Stonewall shows that secondary schools that take an active, positive approach to tackling homophobic, biphobic and transphobic language and bullying get the best results. The Stonewall School Champions programme schools support and is aimed at creating a safe and welcoming learning environment for all students.

“We are absolutely delighted that Woodside High School has won the Stonewall School Champion Gold award. It is a testament to the hard work of our whole school community and our shared commitment to tackling prejudice in all its forms.”

Gerry Robinson and Elma Mc Elligott, Co-Headteachers, Woodside High School

“Stonewall are thrilled to award Woodside High School with a Gold Award in recognition for their hard work since joining the School Champions Programme. They will become the first secondary school in London to receive the award, the highest we offer in this category. I have visited Woodside personally a number of times and the happy, productive young people are testament to the hard work the faculty have put in, ensuring that every student at Woodside High is accepted without exception.”

Dominic Arnall, Head of Projects and Programmes, Stonewall

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STEM

Come to Haringey's STEM Showcase in January

Greig City Academy is hosting Haringey’s first School’s STEM Showcase on Friday 19 January (10am – 3pm). This exciting event is to promote STEM in schools across Haringey.

There is a lot of great STEM development work going on in our schools and colleges but often this takes place in isolation. The STEM Showcase will be an opportunity to display and promote this work and will support the aims of the Haringey STEM Commission and STEM Strategy.

The five STEM hubs, secondary and junior schools will have a chance to showcase the STEM work that they are doing. It will be a great opportunity to network with colleagues from other schools and share good ideas.

There is also a Vex Robotics regional heat taking place at the school that day with several local schools competing.

If you would like to take part to showcase your STEM work or to come along to see colleagues’ good practice, please complete the attached form and send to David Hearn at Greig City: dhearn@greigcityacademy.co.uk

Greig City Academy STEM Showcase invitation form

 

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Schools

Check out the new Teach London web pages

The GLA has launched new Teach London webpages (external link) for London schools.

This content is designed to tell people about the great benefits of starting and developing a career as a teacher in London, including:

As the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says: “It is no wonder that thousands of graduates choose to stay in the capital to teach and to inspire the next generation of Londoners.”

These new webpages are part of the wider Teach London work programme, led by the Teaching Schools Council in London with support from the GLA and the wider school system.

 

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Schools

New National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership

Whitefield Schools, in collaboration with the Cambridge School and Leadership Colab at the Institute of Education, is launching the National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML) in February.

They are offering middle leaders in special schools and resources provisions the opportunity to access this exciting new qualification.

The course consists of 4 modules: Leading with Impact, Leading Learning and teaching, Leading Effective Partnerships and Leading Strategically. Participants are expected to complete a school-based project which will focus on improving the outcomes for pupils and narrowing the achievement gap.

Find further information and an application form here (external link)

 

 

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Schools

Broadwaters goes Christmas crackers

Over 650 children on our Broadwaters site – including The Brook, The Willow Primary School and Broadwater’s Children’s Centre – took part in an inclusive Christmas lunch. Christmas crackers were kindly donated by Sainsbury’s.

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STEM

Welbourne Primary builds city of the future

In December Welbourne Primary School was the only Haringey school to take part in the Teen Tech City STEM Challenge – to design and build an imaginary city of the future.

Using cardboard boxes of different sizes and shapes, children constructed a unique or new building that they thought their community needed.

Working with STEM ambassadors Jacqueline Owusu and Cyril Molony from Skanska AB, a Swedish multinational construction and development company, the Teen Tech City STEM challenge gave pupils an opportunity to collaborate, learn and build the things they imagine through creative play. The exercise let them explore their interests and passions, and learn critical thinking, resourcefulness, perseverance, and team work – all 21st century skills.

The Teen Tech City of Tomorrow Challenge offered Welbourne pupils the opportunity to apply their STEM knowledge to create their City of Tomorrow – where no ideas are too big and everything is smarter, kinder and safer than before. The activity highlighted career pathways in construction, engineering and technology, promoting good citizenship.

 

 

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Smarter Travel

School travel update

Two Haringey schools were awarded Top School Awards by Transport for London for their brilliant work delivering life skills to their pupils.

Woodside Nursery, N22
Won top school award for Excellence in Cycling plus Silver School Travel Accreditation for their programme of encouraging children to learn to ride on two wheels through balanceablity training, culminating in a whole school Bikeathon challenge in their local park. They are proud that 99% move up to reception as independent cyclists on 2 wheels.

Gladesmore Secondary School
Won Top School Award for Excellence in Road Safety plus Gold travel plan accreditation.Gladesmore has taken part in the TfL run Youth Travel Ambassador scheme for 2 years, where a group of students creates a scheme to improve issues identified by the students. This has included road safety awareness activities and assemblies and poster competitions. This year after successfully pitching for £250 from TfL they created a Distraction Obstacle course.

Moving Up – Transition Competition Winner

Every year 6 child in Haringey was given a copy of Moving Up magazine in May. This gives information to help them to be safer traveling – especially when they move up to secondary school. Students aged 11 – 16 years are the most vulnerable age for being involved road traffic incidents. They also receive their new Zip Oyster Card and to help them understand that planning a journey is a good way to reduce risk of putting themselves in danger by getting lost, or late or confused, we offer a competition for them.

They have to work out how to travel around 5 points from Haringey to iconic London landmarks and then to their new secondary school.  This demonstrates an understanding of the public transport route planning tools available online

We received more than 300 entries this year and the standards were extremely high.  The top 6 entries for accuracy were from Earlham Primary School.  The outright winner was Julia who has now moved up to Woodside High.

On Friday 15 December Cllr Mitchell presented Julia with  her prize of a lovely new bike with safety equipment. Julia and her parents were very excited by her achievements. She was a well-deserved winner who was surprised and happy to be able to cycle again. Julia also said that her mum now uses the online planning tools for safer journeys too.

STARS school travel planning 1:1 training sessions

School travel plans are a great tool if you want to improve pupil attendance, fitness and have a school walk zone map, or if you have issues about travel around your school, including parking on your keep clear lines, you need to be registered on STARS (external link)

Check out the Wall of Fame – is your school on it?

1258.15 Wall of fame 2107 A4

Please contact Wendy Thorogood if you would like to book support sessions at your school.  wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk

Celebrations, Awards and Training at the PDC 7, 8, 9 February 2018

We are planning 3 events at the PDC. We will be awarding the STARS certificates and STARS from 2016-17, showcasing resources and running workshops. Bring up to 4 pupils with you to take part in fun learning activities.

Wednesday 7 February  – Infants and Nursery afternoon session

Thursday 8 February – 2 sessions 9:30 and 1pm  – Primary

Friday 9 February – Secondary.

Email wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk to book your place soon.

Air Quality Assemblies  (STARS)

You will have received emails from our new Air Quality Apprentice Michael Oskys offering assemblies and lessons. Please contact Michael to book a time. Michael.oskys@haringey.gov.uk

Reducing the number of cars coming to your school will have a huge effect on the air quality of your school.

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Schools

What makes you happy? – Competition update

  • Please note that the competion closes on Wednesday 20 December.

  • The date of the Community Event at Lordship Recreation Ground has changed and it will now take place on Friday 23 March.

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Ofsted Schools

Joint Targeted Area Inspection

As you may have heard, Haringey is subject to a JTAI (Joint Targeted Area Inspection) which will take place between 4 – 8 December. The inspection will evaluate the effectiveness of multi-agency interventions for children between 7 and 15 years old who have experienced neglect.

By way of context:

  • A JTAI is a multi-agency inspection covering partnership arrangements between social care, health, police, probation and schools. As a result, JTAIs are also multi-inspectorate, involving Ofsted, HMIC, CQC and the Inspectorate of Probation.
  • There is no grading at the end of it, but there is a final report which will reflect the quality of individual services (though we expect this to cover schools overall, rather than name individual schools) and key partnership arrangements.
  • If you are interested in the inspection guidance and reports from other areas, they can be found here (external link)

Seven cases have been chosen for a ‘deep dive’ analysis – these were agreed with the inspectorates on Friday 1 December and the schools involved have all been notified and asked for relevant information.

For further information, please contact Eveleen Riordan or James Page, Joint Assistant Directors for Schools and Learning.