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Schools SEND

Accessibility plans for schools

The Equality Act 2010 replaced all existing equality legislation, including the Disability Discrimination Act. The act requires schools to have an accessibility plan aimed at:

  • increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the curriculum;
  • improving the physical environment of schools to enable disabled pupils to take better advantage of education, benefits, facilities and services provided;
  • improving the availability of accessible information to disabled pupils.

This is explained on page 29 of advice for schools on the Equality Act, published by the Department for Education (DfE) (external link)

Attached is a suggested format along with an example of how a plan might be completed. Accessibility Plans must, of course, be written to reflect each school’s unique context and after assessing accessibility needs.

XXXX School Accessibility Plan

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Events Schools

Haringey Virtual School’s Conference on 19 May

Haringey Virtual School’s Conference 2017 takes place on Friday 19 May from 9am – 1pm at the  Professional Development Centre.

The theme is Promoting Resilience and Looked After Children and the keynote speaker is Professor Robbie Gilligan, Head of the School of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin.

Registration takes place from 8.30am, when refreshments will be available, and lunch is also included.

All participants will receive a copy of Professor Robbie Gilligan’s book Promoting Resilience — Supporting children and young people who are in care, adopted or in need.

Please secure your booking by emailing the Virtual School at: hvs@haringey.gov.uk

Places are limited and applications will be agreed on a first come, first served basis

For more information please contact the Virtual School on 020 8489 3767.

HVS Conference with Professor Gilligan-19 May-17 -pdf

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Events Schools

Seminar on supporting suddenly bereaved children 18 July

Brake is a road safety charity, dedicated to supporting those bereaved or injured in road crashes as well as preventing road deaths and injury.

 

Brake’s Supporting suddenly bereaved children and young people seminar will be held in Euston on Tuesday 18 July. The seminar will address how children and young people experience and express grief, and explore how best to support them through bereavement.

 

Speakers will cover best practice methods in supporting suddenly bereaved children, and will discuss symptoms and emotions commonly experienced after a sudden bereavement. Crucially, the event will also include sign-posting to a range of helpful services, resources and organisations.

 

Topics will include the impact of bereavement through suicide on children and young people, guidance on the impact that PTSD can have on bereaved children and also a discussion of what support children and young people find most beneficial following a bereavement.

 

The cost to attend the seminar is £71 plus VAT.

 

Find out more (external link)  and book your place today (external link)

 

 

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Early Years Events

Haringey's Weekend of Play

Children can take to the streets or head to their local park for some free fun during Haringey’s Weekend of Play (external link) taking place from 28 – 30 April. The aim is to promote the importance of play and sessions will take place at various local parks including Albert Road Rec and Lordship Rec. Several local schools are also getting involved.

Various estate and play streets taster sessions are also on offer (not included on the flyer), giving people in residential streets the opportunity to close their road to traffic for up to three hours to allow children to play safely in the street.

Please see attached flyer for more information.

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Schools

Read the latest School News on www.haringey.gov.uk

Read the latest news from Haringey schools on the Schools News section of Haringey's website (external link).

The latest stories include:

Spotlight on ex-student-turned-teacher at The Willow (external link)

British Science Week at St Thomas More School (external link)

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Governance

Consultation launched – primary assessment in England

The Department for Education (DfE) has launched a public consultation (external link)  on the future of the primary assessment system in England. Details are included in a statement (external link) made to Parliament on 30 March by Secretary of State for Education, Justine Greening.

The consultation sets out wide-ranging proposals for improving the primary assessment system. These include consideration of the best starting point from which to measure pupils' progress, how to ensure the assessment system is proportionate, and how to improve end of key stage assessments.

A parallel consultation (external link) is asking for views on the recommendations of the independent Rochford Review. The recommendations focus on the future of statutory assessment arrangements for pupils working below the standard of national curriculum tests at the end of key stages 1 and 2.

All those with an interest in primary education are encouraged to engage with these consultation exercises and to share their opinions and insights. Both consultations are open until 22 June 2017.

The DfE have invited those with any questions to contact the assessment policy team at PrimaryAssessment.CONSULTATION@education.gov.uk or Rochford.Review@education.gov.uk.

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School Admissions Schools

Earlham Primary School – Adjustment to published admission number for entry in 2017

Dear Colleagues,

We have written to all relevant schools within the local area to Earlham Primary School to set out our intention to seek approval from the Schools Adjudicator to decrease the planned admission number (PAN) for Earlham Primary for the incoming Reception 2017 cohort (year of entry). This decrease will reduce the number of reception places available at the school for September 2017 from 60 places to 30 places.

Under the provisions of The School Admissions Code (2014) we are required to inform all schools within the relevant area where we propose a change to the determined admission arrangements, including a referral to the Schools Adjudicator to decrease the PAN.

We are proposing a temporary reduction in the PAN at Earlham because we expect to have sufficiency of local places for 2017 based on this reduced number.

Please let me know if you have any comments on this proposal by no later than 25 April 2017. 

Carlo Kodsi Carlo.Kodsi@haringey.gov.uk  

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School Admissions Schools

Risley Avenue Primary School– Adjustment to published admission number for entry in 2017

Dear Colleagues,

We have written to all relevant schools within the local area to Risley Avenue Primary School to set out our intention to seek approval from the Schools Adjudicator to decrease the planned admission number (PAN) for Risley Avenue Primary for the incoming Reception 2017 cohort (year of entry). This decrease will reduce the number of reception places available at the school for September 2017 from 90 places to 60 places.

Under the provisions of The School Admissions Code (2014) we are required to inform all schools within the relevant area where we propose a change to the determined admission arrangements, including a referral to the Schools Adjudicator to decrease the PAN.

We are proposing a temporary reduction in the PAN at Risley Avenue because we expect to have sufficiency of local places for 2017 based on this reduced number.

Please let me know if you have any comments on this proposal by no later than 25 April 2017. 

Carlo Kodsi Carlo.Kodsi@haringey.gov.uk  

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Governance Safeguarding

National Children’s Bureau report on children missing in education

The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) is urging the government to take action in order to assist, identify and support children who go missing in education. In a new report published by the NCB, insight is given into the experiences of young people who “drop off the school roll” and are not educated at home.

Governing boards have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, including those who go missing in education, particularly to aid identification of any risk of abuse and neglect. According to the report, experiences such as bullying, domestic violence, difficult home circumstances, special educational needs and disabilities, are amongst the challenges faced by children who miss out on education. To this end, governing boards must have appropriate safeguarding procedures and responses in place, to help protect such children. The Department for Education’s statutory guidance, Keeping children safe in eduction (external link) includes a dedicated annex outlining further information about children missing in education to help schools formulate their processes effectively in this regard.

The key conclusions and recommendations from the NCB include:

  • The legal definition of children missing education should be expanded
  • Monitoring and awareness should be improved to tackle missing education
  • Data collection and information sharing should be improved
  • Everyone should have clear responsibilities for prevention
  • Lessons should be learnt from existing good practice
  • More must be done to (re)integrate children into education
  • Financial constraints must be considered and addressed

 

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Governance Schools

GCSE 9 to 1 grading update

A further revision to the new GCSE system has been announced. A grade 4 in the newly reformed GSCE system (with grading set between 1-9, with 9 being the highest level of achievement) will now be considered a “standard pass” and a grade 5 a “strong pass”.

Under the previously announced reforms a ‘good pass’ (previously set at C grade) was proposed as a grade 5, whereas the historic C grade would have come in at the grade 4 level, showing a distinct shift towards a tougher grading system.