9th January 2023
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome back, we hope you had a good break.
Ongoing reminders: |
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Schools can sign up to Inspection Training by LA Primary Education Advisor, Jason Hughes. Please use this form to register | By 13th January |
Schools can sign up to the Hillingdon Learning Partnership courses here | Ongoing |
Governors can sign up to virtual events & briefing sessions here The next sessions are: · Safeguarding Training on 25th January 2023 6 pm · LA Schools' Governance Service Termly Event for all Governors on 8th February 2023 6 pm (further details below) | Ongoing |
School Emergency / Business Continuity Plans
Each setting should have contingency plans in place for foreseeable risks, detailing what you would do and how you would respond if you needed to take any temporary actions in the event of an emergency.
Emergency plans should be reviewed and include robust contingency plans for a wide range of winter scenarios, such as disruption caused by severe weather (including where this may impact transport or food), power outages or high levels of seasonal illness.
The DfE's emergency planning guidance provides further guidance and support.
Winter Wellness - please share with staff, parents and carers
We are resending the Winter Wellness Directory and Warm Centre Locations across Hillingdon and ask that this is shared with all your staff members, parents and carers. This will help to ensure that support is promoted widely to our vulnerable families.
You can find these documents on LEAP: Winter Support for Families 2022 - Leap (hillingdon.gov.uk). Please note that the LEAP portal is for professionals only and not for parents and carers, therefore please download the documents first and attach them separately to your newsletters etc.
LA Schools' Governance Service Termly Event
All school governors from maintained and academy schools are invited to the LA's Schools' Governance Service Termly Event. Information and updates will be given by key service managers from across the Council.
Date: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Time: 6 - 7.30 pm
Via MS Teams (link in the agenda)
Please see agenda for further details and link to join the meeting: LA School Governance Service Event - Agenda - 08.02.2023 (PDF) [56KB]
Supporting New Arrivals in Schools and Colleges with Dr Karen Treisman
We are delighted to share that Dr Karen Treisman will be hosting a one-off webinar focussing on supporting New Arrivals to the country within our schools and colleges.
The day will provide an overview on how schools can support young people who are new to the country. It will allow colleagues to think about and reflect on, how they can best understand and work with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC), refugee, and trafficked young people within the school environment.
Please do share this with colleagues who you feel will be interested in attending this webinar.
On: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Time: 9.30 am - 4 pm
Via: Zoom
If you wish to attend, please complete this FORM no later than Monday 30th January. Please note that places are limited to 100.
Free Music Teacher CPD: Musical Warm-ups, Games and Exercises
This workshop is a great opportunity for specialists and non-specialists alike to share favourite musical warm-ups, while learning new ones from colleagues. Bring your smartphone ready to record! Theo James of Hayes Park Academy will share some favorite warm-ups and musical exercises with the group before everyone gets the chance to share their own.
This is a free session, which is suitable for primary school music leads of all experiences. Please arrive with 1 or 2 exercises or games to share with the group yourself.
The workshop will take place on Thursday 2nd February, 4.30pm to 6pm in the Middlesex Suite, Civic Centre, High Street, Uxbridge UB8 1UW.
To find out more and to sign up for the workshop, please visit our website here .
Music Mark Training for Schools
The organisation "Music Mark" are running the following training session that you may find helpful:
This session led by Dr Rebecca Berkley, Associate in Music Education at the University Reading, will focus on how to create practical music lessons from musical stimuli like chants and songs, listening extracts and musical games that help children learn and apply musical concepts through listening, appraising, composing and performing. Sign up here.
Free World Book Day Author Events with Hillingdon Libraries
Following our hugely successful programme of virtual author events for World Book Day 2022, we are delighted to be offering a mixture of in-person and online author events for KS1, KS2 and KS3 in 2023. All events take place week of 20th February 2023 and are a great way to get your students ready for World Book Day.
Virtual sessions will be via Microsoft teams at 9.30am followed by in-person events which will take place at Compass Theatre Ickenham at 10.45am. A limited number of spaces will be offered for the in-person events to each school on a first come first serve basis.
All events are free of charge, but schools will need arrange transportation to in person events.
Current Line up:
Tuesday 21st February - Cath Howe, author of Ella on the Outside and Not My Fault. Suitable for Years 5-8
Wednesday 22nd February - Karen Owen, author of Major and Mynah series which is longlisted for UKLA award. Suitable for years 2-4
Thursday 23rd February - Patrice Lawrence, author of Orange Boy, shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award and won Bookseller YA prize and Waterstones prize for Older Children's Fiction. Suitable for years 4-6
Friday 24th February - Rashmi Sirdeshpande, author of Never Show a T-Rex a Books, world book day author for 2022. Suitable for Reception to year 2
To register your interest please contact rwhittle@hillingdon.gov.uk or call 01895 556262 to discuss.
Is This Ok?
The Violence Reduction Unit have partnered with national charity Missing People to commission an exciting new project called Is This Ok?,a free, totally anonymous, and confidential service for young people ages 13-18 to discuss their worries about exploitation via a credible, digital, safe space-www.isthisok.org.uk .
Please see click here for information for professionals which provides more details on the project. Should you have any questions, please contact isthisok@missingpeople.org.uk.
MyHealth Asthma Workshops - please share with parents / carers
MyHealth are running FREE Asthma workshops for parents who have children with Asthma. These sessions are run by the Hillingdon Hospital asthma nurses giving you the chance to learn from health professionals and to ask them questions directly.
Some of the content included in these sessions is asthma attacks, asthma triggers, in techniques and asthma action plans.
The workshops are run online via ZOOM from 4 - 5 pm and you can register your FREE place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/myhealth-asthma-workshop-for-parents-children-tickets-191548726397
You can also contact the MyHealth team on tel: 01895 543 437 or nhsnwlccg.myhealth@nhs.net
Asthma Workshop multiple dates (PDF) [186KB]
