Month: December 2017

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OFA

Celebrating outstanding achievement in Haringey's schools

From inspirational teachers to pupils who have persevered against the odds, and from star footballers to a stratospheric teddy bear, the Outstanding for All Awards put educational achievement in Haringey centre stage.

The awards evening at Alexandra Palace on 27 November showcased the teachers, staff, governors and pupils whose exceptional efforts have helped make education in Haringey best in class.

Compere TV star and Haringey resident Jacqueline Shepherd was joined on stage by local students Melisa Alpdogan (Woodside High) and Tyriek Clement (Gladesmore Community School) to host the event, which is now in its fifth year.

Jacqueline said:

“What an honour to be here and to see Alexandra Palace packed with so many people celebrating together, sharing their pride and saying ‘well done’ and ‘thank you’ for your achievements.”

Jacqueline ShepherdAwards were given out in 12 categories, which drew more than 100 nominations from local parents, children, school staff and teachers keen to celebrate achievements in schools and children’s centres across the borough.

Awards presenters included Haringey Council Leader Claire Kober; the Mayor of Haringey Cllr Stephen Mann; Haringey Borough Police Commander Chief Superintendent Helen Millichap, and Tottenham Hotspur legend Ledley King – who delighted the audience by handing out the Achievement in Sport Award and confirming that nominees in all categories would be treated to a Spurs home game, quipping: “You’re all winners, because you’ve all won Spurs tickets.”

Guests were also treated to spectacular performances from some of the borough’s most talented young stars, including the Gidde Bille African Drumming group from Everyone’s Climbing Tree; Haringey Vox Junior Choir; St Thomas More School Dancers; Alexandra Park School Jazz Band, and singers Tyriek and Melisa.

Cllr Elin Weston, Haringey Council’s Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, who presented the Overcoming Adversity award, said:

“What an absolutely fantastic evening. It made me immensely proud to be at Ally Pally with so many exceptional pupils, teachers, staff and governors and to hear just some of their incredible success stories.

“The awards gave us the chance to say thank you to the teachers who have changed young people’s lives for the better; to the support staff who ensure our children have the best opportunities in life; to the governors who support our schools, and to the children themselves – whose determination is an inspiration to us all.

“Thank you to everyone who nominated and congratulations to every one of our winners and nominees.”

The full list of Outstanding for All Awards 2017 winners is:

  • Support Staff of the Year – Katy Whitney, Highgate Primary School
  • Community Hero – Sam Hadfield, St Aidan’s VC Primary School
  • Outstanding STEM Achievement (Primary) – Teddy Bear Launch Team, St Paul’s Catholic Primary School
  • Outstanding STEM Achievement (Secondary) – Girls Making a Global Difference, Woodside High School
  • Apprentice of the Year – Ishen Stewart-Dowding, Haringey Council
  • Overcoming Adversity – Martin Mendonca, West Green Primary School
  • Early Years Champion – Sue Moss, Pembury House Nursery
  • Achievement in Sport – Haringey District Girls’ Football Team
  • Achievement in the Arts – Jackie Lee, Greig City Academy
  • Governor of the Year – Conrad Plentie, Risley Avenue Primary School
  • Teacher of the Year – Jane Daly, Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children
  • Cllr Egan Achievement Award – Jon Holt, Greig City Academy

The awards were made possible by sponsors Tottenham Hotspur FC, Tiles DIY and Barnet & Southgate College.

See the full list of nominees (external link) 

 

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Schools

Raising BME Achievement – conference feedback

David Lammy’s independent review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the Criminal Justice System has been in the news recently. It was timely that Haringey’s Raising BME Achievement Conference (part 2) took place on 28 November for school senior leaders and governors.

The aim was to present the work and support materials produced by the BME Raising Achievement Steering Group, which has met half termly since its launch conference in October 2016. The conference provided an opportunity to share the following attached documents:

Best practice Raising BME Achievement Self-Evaluation tool

Finalised BME Achievement Self-Evaluation Tool

This uses the same format as Haringey’s safeguarding audit and therefore builds in an automated scoring system to support accurate evaluation and inform future planning.

It’s anticipated that the school’s Chair of Governors will play a lead role in ensuring this is completed and updated annually with input from an appropriate range of stakeholders.

The audit tool is useful for driving improvement for any underperforming group.

The audit tool is useful in supporting schools towards an Ofsted judgement of ‘Outstanding’.

Vulnerable to Underachievement Checklist

Vulnerable to underachievement checklist and ETF additions (002)

Haringey’s data (over several years) shows BME pupils (especially Black Caribbean) have the same starting points in Early Years, then a gap opens at KS1 which widens as the pupils progress through primary and secondary phases.

This checklist was produced to support schools in earlier identification of pupils that might be at risk of under-attaining. Data shows that approximately 80% of pupils that did not attain the expected standard at KS2 and KS4 were NOT known to Haringey multi-agency services and might be deemed to have ‘quietly underperformed’. The checklist will be produced in electronic format with a scoring system that allows for ongoing tracking.

Additions to the Y6 to Y7 Early Transfer Form

Additions have been made to the Early Transfer Form to strengthen transition – outlined in the attached document. An aim of the Steering Group is to support schools in strengthening transition processes this year by including a focus on BME pupils who are at risk of under-attaining and by ensuring ongoing collaboration between feeder and receiver schools throughout the first term of Y6.

School and Governor Commitments and Actions and Next Steps

At the end of the conference, participants were asked to complete a ‘commitment post-it’. These were overwhelmingly committing to completing the Raising BME Achievement Self-Evaluation Tool and some noted the importance of wider dissemination in schools and across the LA as well as the need for more robust data analysis.

The agreed action at the end of the conference was for schools to complete the attached self-evaluation tool.  The Steering Group will be meeting in January to agree next steps and deadlines.

Many thanks to the Steering Group for all of their contributions to the school support materials and conference presentations.

Collated Slides for Nov 2017 Conference

Jane Blakey, Head of School Standards and Performance

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Governance Schools

Haringey Education Partnership (HEP)

On 14 November Cabinet agreed to provide significant support to establish a Haringey Education Partnership (HEP) and commission ongoing statutory and strategic school improvement functions through HEP.

The Cabinet report (external link)

After Christmas, schools will be asked to decide formally whether or not they wish to buy in as members (and therefore owners) of the organisation. In preparation, governors had a special briefing and a further update at the Haringey Governors Association this month.

Information on HEP will continue to be made available to you at regular intervals in the next few months but please do contact me if you have any queries or questions.

James Page, Joint Assistant AD, Schools and Learning.

james.page@haringey.gov.uk Telephone 07887 847 444.

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Health and Safety Schools

More Than Mentors: Building Emotional Resilience in Young People

Haringey Early Help & Prevention Service has teamed up with Community Links in East London to bring a Peer Mentoring Scheme to Haringey.

‘More than Mentors’ is a new and creative model of peer mentoring, which has been co-designed and co-delivered with young people, with psychology support from the East London Foundation Trust and evaluation by the Anna Freud Centre. Through peer mentoring we are looking to build young people’s emotional resilience and self-confidence, improve their attendance and attainment at school and offer a preventative approach to mental health and emotional distress.

What does More than Mentors offer?

For the Mentors – young people aged 13 to 20 years will be offered an accredited (NOCN level 2) training as a peer mentor, the opportunity to apply their mentoring skills, specialist supervision throughout the programme and further training and development of leaderships skills.

For the Mentees – for young people aged 9 to 17yrs they will be able to meet with a mentor in a safe and supported setting for up to 10 sessions to build on their strengths and develop goals for their future.

For the School – As well as supporting your work with young people, the More than Mentors team will provide a Training the Trainers programme so that More than Mentors can become a sustainable offer.

Views of Young People

Mentor – “I feel more confident in becoming a peer mentor due to the regular and open discussions we have, as a group, we discuss feelings the mentee may feel and how to get them to open up, in the most relaxed and informal way possible”

Mentee – “Cause I know like, she’s gonna listen. And sit there and not judge me on it. … she proper listens. Like, sometimes, no one listens. But she proper listens.”

More than Mentors – Now available to Secondary Schools in Haringey!

Through funding provided by the Department of Health we are now in a position to offer More than Mentors to young people in a Haringey Secondary School.

If you are interested, or for more information please contact:

alison.hackshaw@haringey.gov.uk  020 8489 3844

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Schools

Justine Greening sets out plans for technical education

Speaking at the recent Department for Education’s (DfE) Skills Summit, the Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening outlined the government’s plans for the future of technical education. The announcements include:

  • the launch of a new Institute of Technology (external link) described as “prestigious and high quality employer-led institution[s] delivering higher level technical education with a clear route to high skilled employment.”
  • additional funding for career learning pilots as part of a National Retraining Scheme
  • a consultation (external link) on the implementation of the T levels programme and the membership of the panels (external link)   which will help to create the content. (the introduction of T levels was announced by the Chancellor in March.)
  • the launch of Skills Advisory Panels, the first of which will be in Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, Greater Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Leeds and Thames Valley.

Read the full speech here (external link)

 

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Governance Schools

DfE consultation on disadvantaged entitlements under Universal Credit

On 16 November, the Department for Education (DfE) launched a consultation (external link)  on how children's eligibility for free school meals and pupil premium will work following the roll out of universal credit.

The government’s proposals are to alter eligibility for free school meals from the current system based on income-related benefits, to a new one based on a household’s net earnings. The initial threshold will be set at £7,400. During the rollout period, all pupils who are currently eligible will have their entitlements protected, and these protections will continue until the student has completed their current phase of education. Once the system is fully implemented, the government are estimating that 50,000 more pupils will receive free school meals. The government are also proposing to extend the new eligibility criteria to the early years pupil premium.

One consequence of the changes is that the gradual nature of the rollout and the altered eligibility criteria will limit the ability to compare between different school cohorts. This is because free school meal eligibility has been traditionally used as the main indicator of disadvantage.

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Governance Schools

Chancellor’s budget – impact on schools

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the autumn Budget which included pockets of extra funding to boost maths and computer science. Unfortunately, there was no extra core funding for mainstream, high needs and post-16 education budgets.

The Chancellor’s measures for education included:

  • from 2019, a £600 ‘maths premium’ for each pupil taking Maths A-Level above current numbers;
  • £42 million over three years to provide extra training to "improve the quality of teaching in Maths" in a pilot project in some under-performing schools in England;
  • £84 million over four years to train 12,000 more staff qualified to teach computer science with the support of a new National Centre for Computing;
  • further education colleges to receive £20 million to prepare for T-level qualifications with no detail on timeframe announced.
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Schools

Information and resources for Holocaust Memorial Day

Haringey SACRE HMD18 schools guidance

Please find attached some information and resources produced by Haringey Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) to support work in schools around Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. The theme is: A big question: ‘The Power of Words’. An event will take place at Haringey Civic Centre on 28 January from 2pm.

The Haringey context

19.4% of children on the school roll in Haringey are refugees and we have the highest proportion of refugee children in the UK. Refugees are a diverse group and come from Somalia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Albania, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Zimbabwe.[1] Schools play a vital role in promoting the well-being of refugee children. Some have experienced traumatic events, including violence, separation and bereavement. We also have over 2,000 asylum seekers in our schools.

Exploring issues and appropriate themes sensitively that are related to Holocaust Memorial Day, can increase and foster understanding of the lives and experience of some of the children we find in our schools. HMD enables schools to explore critical moral issues, investigate human behaviour, respond to inspirational survivor stories and consider what it means to be a responsible British citizen. We hope you will find the information and websites useful in your planning.

A focus on HMD can help schools to plan lessons that:

  • identify the roots and consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping and challenge intolerance
  • consider what it means to live in a British plural, society and explore meanings of diversity and difference and the opportunities and challenges this presents (cultural, religious, social)
  • reflect on the dangers of doing nothing and being indifferent to the treatment and oppression of others
  • enable students to be inspired by and learn from real life survivor stories of courage and faith
  • Initiate your own creative projects and actions in relation to the 2018 theme and explore further Haringey planned events and what Bruce Castle offer.

Haringey SACRE exists to promote and support good RE, SMSC and Collective Worship in schools.  We wish to draw your attention to our new website (external link)

where you will find this as resource number G11

Bob Allaway (Chair) Anita Compton (RE Consultant)  and Fay Jackson (Adviser Partnership and Development) on behalf of Haringey SACRE

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Traded Services

Management of Traded Services – update

On 1 December Michael Welton returned as manager of the Education Welfare Service. Since his appointment as Traded Service Manager in April, Michael has continued to support the EWS but now returns on a full time basis. Michael will continue to provide a lead for Traded Services, but if you have queries in relation to Traded Services, please contact:

Invoice/payment queries etc: Sue Wilkie  Sue.Wilkie@haringey.gov.uk  07976 457443

Training queries: Sylvia Dobie  Sylvia.Dobie@haringey.gov.uk  x 5020

Early Years queries: Rebekah Bromfield  Rebekah.Bromfield@haringey.gov.uk x 5386

Governors queries: Brenda Bruno  Brenda.Bruno2@haringey.gov.uk  x 5074

 

 

 

 

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Governance Schools

Technical and apprenticeship careers advice

Guidance for schools on meeting their statutory duties in relation to technical and apprenticeship careers advice

The government has released guidance on what schools must do to meet the upcoming requirements of the Technical and Further Education Act 2017. This Act, which will come in to force on 2 January 2018, puts a statutory duty on all maintained schools and academies to “ensure that there is an opportunity for a range of education and training providers to access registered pupils during the relevant phase of their education for the purpose of informing them about approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships”.

To meet the requirements of the Act, a school must “explain in a policy statement how providers can get involved with your school and the opportunities you have for them to talk to your pupils”. This applies to pupils in Years 8 to 13. This must be subsequently “published on the school website”. Details of what should be included in this statement can be found here (external link).  with more guidance expected in the New Year.