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Haringey Giving has teamed up with the Childhood Trust for a new fundraising campaign to help support Haringey’s children and young people who have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Champions for Children Appeal, which will run from midday today (Tuesday 8 June 2021) to the same day and time next week (12 noon on Tuesday 15 June 2021), will be match-funded by the Childhood Trust for monies raised up to a total of £10,000.
Haringey Giving will use the funds raised to provide small grants of around £1,000 to charities and community groups who are supporting children and young people through the recovery phase of the pandemic.
Any funds raised above the £10,000 target will be distributed as small grants to projects supporting children and young people through the ‘Together We Can’ programme.
For further information about the Champions for Children Appeal visit the Haringey Giving website.
If anyone in your school community would like to make a donation, please visit the Big Give website
Seventeen students from Tottenham visited the University of Cambridge as part of Estudiantes London, a sport-for-development club that uses the power of sport to drive academic excellence.
The club draws the lion’s share of its participants from Haringey 6 Form College but is open to anyone aged 13-19 who is committed to their studies. To be able to participate in UEFA-coached football training sessions as well as show case matches, students must show an excellent attitude to their education.
Matches such as the one against Cambridge serve two purposes. Firstly, their prestige helps drive the project forward and gives students an exhibition match to strive for. Secondly, and more importantly, they are there to remind students that their talent and excellence can see them gain outstanding opportunities if they show the necessary dedication.
This year, the Estudiantes team, who compete in the LNFS England league, have travelled across the UK to take on teams from varying levels of the football and futsal pyramid, including a tour and match at the leading sports university in the world at Loughborough. The students were reunited with their formers team-mates Fabio Teixeira and Tenzin Dhongak. Both are graduates from Estudiantes and Haringey 6th Form College, who have since joined the International Futsal Academy to complete their degree at Loughborough.
Haringey Sixth Form student athlete Owen Locke is a great example of the work of Estudiantes. In the last year, Owen has gained his FA Level 1 in football and futsal coaching qualification, refereeing licence, and is currently taking his FA Level in Talent ID. As one of the top young futsal goalkeepers in England, he has recently joined Genesis Futsal Club and been a stand out performer in the Futsal Premier League.
Despite the complications of COVID-19, students have participated in over 200 training sessions across volleyball, futsal and football since September 2020, with regular trips and showcase matches organised to provide outstanding opportunities for the participants.
Russ Lawrance, CEO Haringey Sixth Form Educational Trust said:
“The work that Estudiantes have done at Haringey Sixth Form College has really boosted participation and opportunities for our students; it has strengthened relationships and helped students cope in challenging times. The students now feel more comfortable communicating with their teammates, staff and other students. The added bonus is also the high quality experience – it’s not only inspirational, it raises expectations, this is the ‘can do/will do’ attitude which is so important. I am delighted with the quality of coaching from Estudiantes London.”
Anyone interested in joining the club should contact: 07930 395314 or info@estudiantes.co.uk
London Sport is encouraging London schools in London to apply for a grant from a new London Sport fund which will support them to open or re-open their school facilities outside of school hours for local young people. London Sport is distributing grants of up to £10,000 to schools in areas of high deprivation and with high obesity levels to support more of the capital’s children to discover and maintain an active lifestyle.
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June news from Smarter Travel
Moving Up and Mission Transition for Year 6 students
Arriving at your school this week: a copy of Moving Up and Mission Transition for every year 6 pupil, plus a teacher’s lesson pack. The teacher’s pack include: letter, lesson plan, 10 x maps of Haringey, 3 activity sheets.
As you may remember, we supply you with these resources to help you with the final term with your year 6 pupils before they are off to secondary school and gain more independence.
This is an important year for them, as they may never have had so much freedom and peer pressure and the last thing they want is to become a statistic. Incidentally, we have now included some information about Operation Fearless, we know that a barrier to independence can come from fears of this nature.
These resources are free of charge, but full of valuable information. Please try to support your Year 6 teachers, making sure they receive them and hopefully dedicate a day to look at them and follow the lesson plan too.
The Mission Transition competition is only open to students in Haringey – one of them really can win a bike of their choice! If they can complete the booklet and send it back to us in class packs, with your school name on the envelope, we will check each entry and choose one overall winner. The bike will be chosen from Finsbury Cycles and we will arrange to present it to the winning pupil in school.
Please send entries to: Smarter Travel Team, 1st Floor, Cumberland House, 40 Cumberland Road, Wood Green N22 7SG.
The closing date is Wednesday 30 June (please contact Wendy Thorogood if this date is not convenient).
Using these resources also fulfils a fair few of those essential activities on your TfL STARS travel plan too.
Join the STARS forum!
Our Healthy Streets Officer and her colleagues invite you to their second online STARS forum! This is an online webinar where teachers and council staff from across London join to help each other with STARS. There will be information about upcoming national campaigns and ideas for STARS activities to support them. It could be the final few stories you need to reach your accreditation this year!
The next forum webinar is being held on Tuesday 15 June at 12-1.30pm. You can sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tfl-stars-school-champion-forum-tickets-154530895067
Topics will include:
- Green Transport Week and London Climate Action Week – we’ll provide some ideas of activities to support these campaigns
- Run through a School Travel Plan
- Information on this year’s accreditations
- Top Tips for STARS from September
There will also be interactive break-out rooms with plenty of time for questions and knowledge-sharing.
If you missed the first forum and would like an introduction to the STARS website as a refresher, the recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwlbBu_BtPE
School Travel Planning – TfL STARS
We are fast approaching the end of term and the school year.
We have offered you many supporting resources this year, these alone should help you to reach the minimum of Bronze accreditation, but you could get Silver or boost your school to GOLD
Things to remember:
- Hands up survey, once this is completed, open it again and edit to tick the completed box.
- The Golden Lock – cycle and scooter promotion resource
- Walk to school week resources
- Cycle training
- Moving Up and Mission Transition, plus the lesson plans arriving this week
- Air quality lessons
- School streets
- Social distancing measures – these should have created safer spaces around your schools
- Healthy Schools competition for May – did you take part? That counts too
- any funding given to your school needs to be documented here too.
Deadline for accreditation for TfL STARS school travel planning is the end of July.
Come along to Georgia’s online workshop
The next forum webinar is being held on Tuesday 15 June at 12-1.30pm. You can sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tfl-stars-school-champion-forum-tickets-154530895067
Or contact us for a 1:1 support session Wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk
Complete a Free Online Cycle Training Course and get 15% off in Halfords!
Whether you’re popping to the shops or going to work, there’s never been a better time to cycle.
TfL’s free online Cycle Skills course will help you to cycle safely and confidently. So, whether you’re new to cycling or just want to brush up on your skills, we can help you take to the road.
What you’ll learn:
There are four modules to complete and each one takes less than five minutes:
- Get ready to ride – gives you tips on getting you and your cycle ready for the road including basic maintenance and road handling skills
- First time on the road – shows you how to cycle safely and responsibly and includes tips on setting off, road positioning and stopping safely
- On the road again – helps to get you cycling again with advice on traffic lights, roundabouts and junctions, and how to share the road safely
- Cycling with children – gives you advice on cycling in a group
On completion of the course, you’ll receive a code to redeem 15% off Halfords own-brand locks, lights and helmets! What are you waiting for? Now! Please share this in your newsletters so that staff and parents can take
About this activity (available on TFL Stars)
Suitable for year 5 and 6 pupils. Supports the PSHE and Citizenship National Curriculum.
TfL’s Junior Travel Ambassador (JTA) scheme encourages safer, active and independent travel within the school community, with a focus on year 6 pupils as they prepare for the transition to secondary school.
The scheme involves recruiting a team of JTAs; year 5 and 6 pupils who work to promote active travel and road safety to their peers through a range of activities.
To receive further information and resources email: halema.uddin@haringey.gov.uk
Funding for schools to open sport facilities out-of-hours to support healthy lifestyles
There are grants up to £10,000 available for schools to provide out-of-hours sport clubs/facilities for students. Haringey secondary schools will be prioritised in the applications.
For more information see the link below:
Air pollution lessons and resources
The Cleaner Air Sooner programme (www.cleanerairsooner.org) is funded by the Clean Air Fund, and we provide free resources for schools so they can deliver simple clean air projects to help children breathe cleaner air.
There are 6 toolkit projects, and we are encouraging schools to get involved with either the Raising Awareness project, or the clean air route mapping project, for Clean Air Day this year.
So far we have had around 50 schools sign up to the programme, and we are now working with local authorities across London to promote the programme activities to school for Clean Air Day.
I’ve attached the newsletter / email copy we have produced for local authorities to use to promote the activities to schools in their borough.
And here is a summary of the two possible project activities for local authorities.
Clean Air Route Mapping project launch
In advance:
- Encourage as many schools as possible to produce clean air route maps for their schools, with a particular focus on those on or near main roads.
- Schools can download our mapping project toolkit and prepare for the day’s activities.
On the day:
- Lesson: One class (suggest year 5 or 6, or the eco council) would have a lesson on air quality and schools (either using our video-recorded lesson, or using our PowerPoint presentation with reader notes if they’d like to deliver it themselves).
- Look at maps: The class will look at a pollution map of their area and identify which are the most polluted / least polluted roads.
- Produce map elements: In the second part of the class, they would produce the elements of the map – drawings of their favourite places in the area, background map of the roads (colouring the polluted roads red), logo or name for the map.
- Share images: The school shares images / videos of the activity on social media
After the class:
- Either a teacher or a parent with graphic design skills puts together the elements of the map.
- The map can be printed and all children at the school receive a copy, and it could also be printed as a large banner to put up outside the school.
- Raising Awareness and posters / letter writing
Schools commit to raising awareness about pollution at their school on Clean Air Day, and can use the resources in our ‘Raising Awareness’ toolkit:
In advance:
- Schools download the toolkit and can send out the letter to parents to let them know the activity is happening.
- Schools can arrange for a ‘Clean Air in the Making’ banner to be sent to them (see below), and take photos of some pupils by the banner. We can provide the council with the file for printing (we suggest the banner is sent a day or two before, so you have some visuals for use on Clean Air Day itself).
On the day:
- Lesson: One class (suggest year 5 or 6, or the eco council) would deliver a lesson on air quality and schools (either using our video-recorded lesson, or using our PowerPoint presentation with reader notes if they’d like to deliver it themselves).
- Activity: In the second half of the lesson, pupils can create a poster or video message about air quality, for use on the school’s social media/ school newsletter, and share with the local authority. Or they could write a letter to a local politician about clean air and schools.
The learning outcomes for these projects are that pupils will understand
- What pollution is and what creates it.
- What can happen to us if we breathe in too much pollution.
- Why it’s important for schools to have clean air.
- What you can do about it.
Lucy Harbor – Cool World Consulting / CWC Environmental
M: 07830 434033
W: www.coolworldconsulting.co.uk
We are also offering banners for school gates to schools that sign up (we have about 10 left), which are attached. If any are interested, we can send them one this week
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Euro 2020 trophy visits the Selby Centre
On Friday 4 June the Euro 2020 trophy visited Tottenham, where it stopped off at the Selby Centre. The iconic trophy is visiting all 11 host cities. This was a great opportunity for specially invited guests to a chance to get close to the Henri Delaunay Cup.
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Hold a Big Bang STEM day at your school
Does your school need some Big Bang magic? Host an inspiring STEM day filled with amazing new activities. Big Bang will work with you to create a fantastic programme just right for your students, help you access cash to make it happen and be there with you on the day. From September.
The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the UK’s oldest and best-loved children’s book awards, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing and illustration in books for children and young people.
The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.
The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.
Unique in that they are judged solely by librarians, the roll-call of past winners includes: Arthur Ransome, C.S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Noel Streatfeild, Sally Gardner and Elizabeth Acevedo for the Carnegie; and Raymond Briggs, Shirley Hughes, Janet Ahlberg, and Children’s Laureates Quentin Blake, Anthony Browne, Chris Riddell and Lauren Child for the Kate Greenaway.
A national (and international) reading for pleasure initiative, the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards Shadowing scheme engages thousands of children and young people in reading the books on the shortlist via reading groups in schools and public libraries with dedicated educational reading resources and promotional materials to support each shortlist. Each year young people who take part in the scheme are invited to vote for their favourite books to win the Shadowers’ Choice Awards, which are announced alongside the Medal winners at the annual winners’ ceremony.
We’ve launched an exciting social media campaign to celebrate everyone across Haringey who’s getting vaccinated to help protect themselves and their loved ones from #COVID-19.
We want to encourage everyone who lives and works in the borough to share that they’ve had their vaccine and show everyone how proud they are.
When it’s time to get the COVID-19 vaccine, people can get involved by:
- Sharing a picture or video of themselves getting the jab, with their vaccine card, or wearing their vaccination sticker
- Telling us why they’re proud to be vaccinated (e.g. to protect their loved ones, to help get the world back to normal etc.)
- Tagging @HaringeyCouncil on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram
- And including the hashtag #ProudToProtect
Keep a look out, we’ll be re-sharing some of these posts on our social media channels.
Dear Teachers
We are getting in touch offering your school a once in a lifetime opportunity as part of No Barriers, a project that uses the power of football to champion inclusion in your school.
We are looking for one student from your school, aged 6-10, to represent their borough at the UEFA EUROs and walk onto the pitch at Wembley Stadium with a team playing in UEFA EUROs. Students from each London borough will be selected to attend the games, which makes this an exclusive and brilliant opportunity for your school.
In order to qualify, your school must sign up through the No Barriers webform which can be found here: https://www.big-ideas.org/nobarriers/ by Thursday 20th May.
As part of that form you must submit a ‘No Barriers Commitment’ from your school, committing to breaking down barriers to inclusion through sport. Your ‘No Barriers Commitment’ could include:
- Why is it important for everyone in your school to overcome the barriers they face?
- What can football do to inspire your pupils to overcome barriers?
- What can the UEFA EUROs do to inspire your pupils to overcome barriers?
- How do pupils in your school overcome the barriers they face?
- Tell us how your school can overcome barriers to give everyone the best shot at goal?
Places are limited and first come, first serve, so get in touch ASAP to ensure your place.
T&Cs
Schools will be selected with the aim that every borough of London is represented. When more than one school applies from a borough, schools that submit the most inspiring messages with a commitment to take part in the project will be selected. Everyone will be kept on a waiting list for further opportunities.
If your school has been selected for this opportunity, Big Ideas will contact you to confirm the details of your nominated student and to obtain consent from a parent or guardian.
All schools who register will be invited to take part in the No Barriers programme.
Feel free to contact Hollie with any questions on 07467 946897.
Best wishes,
The No Barriers team
07467 946897