LA Education Weekly Update

Annual Safeguarding Training for Governorsis mandatory.  Please sign up here:  Safeguarding Training for Governors 2025/2026 Registration Form

Headteachers should sign up for Ofsted training HERE.

Governors can sign up to attend face to face training in Suspensions & Exclusions at the Civic Centre HERE

Year 6 teachers should sign up to attend New to Year 6 Moderation Briefing Session

Governors should sign up for Ofsted training HERE 

Headteachers or deputies should attend the virtual Autumn Head Teachers' Termly meeting. Agenda and link to join will be shared soon. 

All Primary Academies should complete Moderation Partner Agreement 2025-26

by 09/01/26

Useful Links:

Hillingdon LEAP can be accessed for information and guidance for all settings

Critical Incident Notification can be found here

Emergency closures of all schools must be reported to education@hillingdon.gov.uk

Education Services Contacts can be found here

Education & SEND Policies can be found here

EYES information can be found here. Support guidance and training videos have now been added for schools & settings.

Governors can access LA training here

Hillingdon Learning Partnership

Schools' Forum meeting papers can be accessed here. If anyone would like to attend meetings, they are welcome to do so.

School Census Update

As you know, this Autumn's School Census is open. We still have 14 schools who have not submitted any data, 5 that have loaded their data but have not resolved issues and submitted their return. There are 15 schools that have submitted their return but still need to fix their issues. Overall, we have encountered 120 query issues, 51 of those have been "ok'ed" by the DfE. A return cannot be approved by us until all queries either have data corrected or acceptable notepad entries supplied.

The common queries are still reports 4015 and 4007. Please run the reports listed in the Reports query listing. Every census we ask you to enter notes for these as "4007Q - Confirmed as correct", and "4015Q - Confirmed as correct". The DfE will not accept anything else. Again, please enter 1 note per query. Thank you for cooperation.

Marc Sherman, Business Intelligence Team

AfA Attendance Conference

Thank you to those who attended the conference. Slides and resources used during the day can be found here: Attendance Conference

Thank you to Oak Wood School for hosting and providing refreshments.

Free Universal Training - Ordinarily Available Provision (OAP) Workshop 

On: 6^th November 1 - 4pm at the Civic Centre

This OAP (Ordinarily Available Provision) workshop is designed to help learners develop a clear understanding of what OAP means and how it can be effectively implemented in educational settings. Through practical examples and interactive discussions, participants will explore how to identify and apply ordinarily available support to meet the diverse needs of all learners. The session aims to build confidence and consistency in delivering inclusive, high-quality provision as part of everyday classroom practice.

How to book - Via the Hillingdon Learning Zone - Course: Ordinary Available Provision (OAP) Workshop

NASEN Training

Free training for schools can be found here: Events listing | Nasen

Talk Pants Week (13th-19th October 2025)

This is a national campaign that helps children understand that their body belongs to them, and that they have the right to say no and speak out if something does not feel right.

This is a great opportunity for us all to reinforce the Talk PANTS message with children, families, and communities across our work.

Please take a few moments to read the Talk Pants Week briefing for more information about local activities, key messages, and how you can get involved.

You can also access a wide range of resources online to support your conversations with children and families:

• Talk PANTS Briefing Oct 2025
• Talk PANTS: Conversation to help keep children safe | NSPCC - NSPCC Talk PANTS resources page

Thank you for continuing to champion this important message and helping to keep children safe.

AXIS Newsletter September 2025

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#DoSomethingThisHalfTerm (October 2025) | Targeted Team - Holiday Offer  

The Hillingdon Youth Offer's Targeted Team is offering a fun-filled programme during this half-term school holiday for the enjoyment and growth of children and young people in Hillingdon. Across the action-packed days, expect activities ranging from exploring new/building on existing skills, indoor adventure activities, coding, creative arts, sports to cooking all aimed at fostering fun, creativity, teamwork skills and improved well-being. This is a fantastic opportunity for our young residents to learn new skills, make friends, and create lasting memories.

School years 7+  

• Monday 27th October 2025, 10am-3pm at Harlington Young People's Centre, Pinkwell Lane, Hayes, UB3 1PB (with sports and wellbeing delivered by BM Youth) 
• Tuesday 28th October 2025, 10am-3pm at Harlington Young People's Centre, Pinkwell Lane, Hayes, UB3 1PB (with climbing off-site at The Nest Climbing, Material Walk, Hayes, UB3 1DP) 

 School years 4-6 

• Wednesday 29th October 2025, 10am-3pm at Harlington Young People's Centre, Pinkwell Lane, Hayes, UB3 1PB (with sports and wellbeing delivered by BM Youth) 
• Thursday 30th October 2025, 10am-3pm at Harlington Young People's Centre, Pinkwell Lane, Hayes, UB3 1PB (with coding delivered by JAM Coding) 

Lunch will be provided.

To request a place for a  child/young person to our holiday offer please see: https://rebrand.ly/DSTHT/Oct2025 

Panto Ticket Availability - Compass Theatre

Hillingdon's Compass Theatre still has limited space to accommodate school visits to see the pantomime, Sleeping Beauty - 4 December at 10 am or 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 at 1 pm.

At these times, school groups of 10+ can get tickets for just £11 each, plus claim a free teacher's ticket for every ten tickets paid.

Please contact Lisa Mannion at lmannion@hillingdon.gov.uk or call 01895 250622 for tickets.

Sleeping Beauty - Christmas Panto

SBM/Finance Officers Networking Meeting

The next meeting is being held on Thursday 23 October 1 - 3 pm in Committee Room 5, Civic Centre. Please come along or email organiser joannapalmer44@hotmail.com if you have any queries.

School Food Contract Support

School Food Matters have been awarded funding to provide free webinars, training sessions and resources for primary schools to help them manage their school food contracts. First, they need to find out what would be most useful to you!

If you are involved with your school meal service, please take part in a five-minute survey to tell School Food Matters what works (and what does not) when it comes to catering contracts. And there is a chance to win one of ten £200 vouchers, so it is well worth the effort!

Complete the survey here

The webinars, training and resources that follow will support Hillingdon's Strategic Priorities for school food (Primary Schools), which align with the Hillingdon Education Strategy.