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The Governing body of St Mary’s CE Primary School is consulting on changes to their admission arrangements for entry in September 2021.
For more information, please read the consultation letter and other documents about the proposed admission arrangements.

• St Mary’s consultation letter on proposed Admissions Criteria for 2021
• St Mary’s Admissions Arrangements and Criteria 2021
• St Mary’s Foundation Place Supplementary Form – 2021
• St Mary’s Ministers Form – 2021

We are pleased to announce that from 1 April 2020 there will be new electricity and gas contracts in place for schools’ gas through Haringey Council’s corporate contract with LASER (a public sector energy buying group owned by Kent County Council). The new supplier for electricity will be npower and the gas supplier will remain Corona.
 We have listened to schools’ needs, including environmental and social considerations, reducing complexity in terms of number of suppliers and supplier performance. The new contracts include:
Value for money

• contract procured at scale across London boroughs and other public sector organisations
• a risk-managed approach to purchasing energy that reduces the impact of sudden price changes in the market
• budget tool to make budget management and forecasting easier
• reduced buying organisation fees.

 Environmental and social benefits

• 100% Renewable Energy Guarantee Origin (REGO) sourced electricity
• suppliers paying the London Living Wage.

Improved supplier performance

•  KPIs for supplier performance, including query management and invoicing
• No disconnection prior to mediation
• access to additional services including energy efficiency and renewable energy installation.

These contracts have been procured though a framework run by LASER and the OJEU compliant procurement was run by the London Energy Project (a collaborative Category Management resource led by Haringey Council) on behalf of London and South East local authorities and other public sector organisations. The current CCS framework contracts with EDF, British Gas and Corona will cease on 31 March 2020.
What do I need to do to join if I’m already on Haringey’s contracts for electricity and gas?
 If your school is currently on Haringey’s contracts through the CCS framework, you don’t need to do anything to sign up and your school will automatically transfer to the LEP/LASER framework on 1 April 2020.
However, your current supplier(s) may object to the transfer if there is any debt on your accounts. It is therefore essential to resolve any outstanding balances with your current suppliers by 31 March 2020 to enable a smooth transfer to the new contract. If these are not cleared by 31 March 2020, you may move to more expensive out of contract rates on 1 April 2020 and remain on these rates until any outstanding invoices are cleared, and you can move to the new framework. Therefore, please take the time now to check your account balances with your current suppliers, pay any outstanding invoices and/or provide remittance advice for invoices that have been paid but not allocated.
If you need any assistance in resolving outstanding balances with your suppliers, please contact energy@haringey.gov.uk and we will be happy to assist.
What do I need to do to join if I’m not on Haringey’s contracts for electricity and gas?
If you are interested in joining the contract, please contact energy@haringey.gov.uk
The Energy Management team will be attending a bursars’ meeting soon and will continue to be in touch regarding the changes over the forthcoming months. And of course, if you have any questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to get in touch at energy@haringey.gov.uk.

We are pleased to announce that schools can now join a new contract for water, wastewater and ancillary services with Anglian Water for Business, trading as Wave. Following the deregulation of the non-domestic water market in 2017, Haringey Council has entered into a corporate contract with Wave which schools are eligible to join.
The new Wave contract includes several benefits including:

• Value for money – contract procured at scale across London boroughs and other public sector organisations
• An educational pack for your school about water efficiency
• An online supplier portal to access and download invoices, raise queries and monitor usage
• KPIs for supplier performance including query management and invoicing.

Wave can also help your school save money on your water bills through several value added services including:

• A Water Footprint Assessment to help you understand your consumption
• Access to water efficiency measures and services including water audit surveys, leak detection and automatic meters.

The Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) compliant procurement was led by the London Energy Project (a collaborative Category Management resource led by Haringey Council) on behalf of London and South East local authorities and other public sector organisations and run by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS – a public sector buying group) though a YPO (Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation) framework.
How can my school join the contract with Wave?
If your school buys its energy through the Haringey corporate contract, you can also join the contract with Wave. Let us know if you are interested in joining by emailing an Expression of Interest to energy@haringey.gov.uk. We will be happy to assist in the registration process.
To note, your current supplier may object to the transfer if there is any debt on your account(s), so it is advisable to resolve any outstanding balances now to enable a smooth transfer to the new contract. Please therefore take the time to check your account balances with your current supplier, pay any outstanding invoices and/or provide remittance advice for invoices that have been paid but not allocated.
What if my school buys energy elsewhere?
At present, the corporate contract with Wave is only available to schools that purchase energy through Haringey’s corporate contract. If you buy your energy elsewhere, your school is free to set up an independent contract with a supplier of your choosing, including Wave, but will be on different contract rates.
More information can be found here: Wave LEP Schools Pack
The Energy Management team will be attending a bursars’ meeting soon. You can also get in touch anytime on: energy@haringey.gov.uk
 

In November both the Juniors and Infants at Rokesly schools were involved in the ‘Masked Crusaders’ campaign to tackle car idling and reduce harmful pollution around the school.
Some Rokesly parents worked with London Sustainable Schools and Haringey Council to build a campaign to encourage car users to turn their engines off rather than letting idling engines pollute the air outside the school.
The children used their fun ‘anti-pollution masks’ made out of recycled materials to transform into ‘Masked Crusaders’ against engine idling, along with children in other schools across London.

The story gained great media coverage in the Metro and the Ham and High.
 
Picture: Sam Volpe

WeMove is organising a new Dance and Community Leadership course for 16 -24-year-olds in Haringey. Through the course students will:

• learn how to teach dance to a professional standard
• receive support in setting up their own projects in their schools/colleges and local community
• have enriched training in: music production; dance history; community activism; budgeting/setting up a business
• there will be at least ten guest sessions throughout the year with industry professionals such as Mikey J Asante (Artistic Director of Boy Blue Dance Company, and music producer for Kano and other artists), and Kloe Dean (Artistic Director of Myself Dance, the UK’s leading female hip hop dance company).

The outcome will be at least one qualification (with Sports Leaders UK, and hopefully an additional qualification in community work with ASDAN), at least ten hours of work experience, and producing a summer community dance event.
Please contact Camilla Stanger camillastanger@hotmail.com if anyone is interested.

Award-winning deaf equality, diversity and disability training consultancy Signs4Life is offering deaf awareness and sign language workshops in Haringey. This may be of interest to teachers and support staff. They would come to your.
Sign language charity Signs4Life is involved in bringing sign language into the public sphere and promoting and engaging deaf people into mainstream society. Signs4Life is leading efforts towards a society in which deaf and disabled people have full access and are working hard to raise the public and political awareness of disability provision.
Testimonials 
“Memnos was great. I had excellent feedback from the session and everyone was impressed at how effectively he presented and many came back saying they’d like to be as good as him! Memnos has a way of inviting us into his world which is so incredibly welcoming and open. I look forward to him training a new group on Friday!” (Tatiana Pavlovsky, Hackney Learning Trust).
“The morning Makaton session was great. Very interesting and informative. A view shared by our health and social care students. Thankyou Fozia!” (Michelle O’Connor, Haydon School, Hillingdon)  If you would like more information please contact Sara Phillips info@signs4life.org
Read more here.

London Play is recruiting a new Play Starter in Haringey to support its exciting National Lottery-funded play streets project, starting in February 2020.
No experience is needed but enthusiasm, creativity and bags of energy are essential, as is an interest in working with children and young people.
Hours are part time and flexible, full support is provided and you can work towards a play-related AQA qualification paid for by London Play.
This will be a temporary fixed term contract from February to October 2020. The salary will be £10 per hour. The hours of work will be flexible, up to 100 hours during the period of the contract. Some weekend work will be required. The closing date is 5pm on Wednesday 18 December 2019.
If you would like to receive the application pack, please contact: catherine@londonplay.org.uk
London Play is a children’s chariy that is working for a capital where all children can play outdoors. Nearly half of children in London surveyed say they do not play out as much as they like.

Last year the British artist, screenwriter and Oscar winning film director Steve McQueen invited every year 3 class in every primary school in London to have their class photo taken as part of his Year 3 photographic project – one of the most ambitious portraits of citizenship ever undertaken.
Year 3 is considered a milestone year in a child’s development and sense of identity. It’s when children aged 7–8 years old become more conscious of a much bigger world beyond their immediate family. 
Haringey schools leapt at the opportunity to get involved, with 54 schools and over 1500 children from the borough taking part.
Now Steve McQueen’s Steve McQueen’s epic Year 3 project can be seen on over 600 billboards across all 33 of London’s boroughs. The billboards feature huge class photos of year 3 school children from London primary schools.
Look out for the billboards – can you see your school featured? The billboards can be spotted on the side of the road, on railway platforms, and at London Underground stations for most of November 2019. To find out where they are located, you can explore the map on the website (external link).
All the school photos will be presented together in a large-scale, free exhibition at Tate Britain from 12 November 2019 – 3 May 2020. Read more on the Tate website (external link).
Visit the project website (external link) for more info.
Read a Guardian article about Steve McQueen and his project here (external link).