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Young Minds have launched 360° Schools, your one-stop shop for mental health, well being and resilience for your whole school.
By joining our Young Minds 360° Schools' Community, you will receive free tips, advice and handy resources straight into your inbox.
Young Minds have produced a suite of resources to support pupils with transition at all stages of their education. These include films, books, activity packs and advice for parents and school staff on how to support children and young people. For further information, please visit the website below.
This week’s newsletter from YoungMinds contains some really useful resources to support pupils’ (and staff’s) mental wellbeing, including an advent calendar of daily activities. Please see the newsletter attached below and to subscribe to the newsletter, please visit their website also below.
Childline and the Internet Watch Foundation have come together to provide a service where children can request the removal of sexual images of themselves which have been shared online. As part of that process the child would be asked to provide a link to where the image is stored online, rather than send the image itself.
The child is also required to verify their identity and age and this is done through the YOTI app. YOTI will not store images of the child’s ID following the verification process.
Below are a couple of online resources which contain details regarding this service:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/sexting - There is a section which covers what you can do if you’ve lost control of a sexual image and refers to the YOTI app.
https://contentreporting.childline.org.uk – This is the portal where you can report images and videos for take down and again refers to using the app to verify age.
Unity Teaching School Alliance has a few places left on the following courses; if you would like to sign up or require further information please contact cpdbooking@unitytrustsolihull.org.uk.
Understanding your school data
26th November 2019 at Fordbridge Primary School
This half day session will be led by James Pembroke, who is a national advisory consultant in education data and tracking. The workshop will focus on analysing your data in an effective and meaningful way - please bring your laptop and school data to this session.
The course will take place between 1.00pm and 4.00pm and the cost per delegate is £70.00.
Maths conference
14 November 2019 at Fordbridge Community Primary School between 9.00am and 3.00pm
This is a full day course entitled Challenge for All which will focus on how to support the struggling learners in the mastery approach. This course will be led by Claire Duncan and will cover the following areas:
- How do scaffold and challenge when teaching a whole class.
- Strategies for scaffolding children who may struggle and things that can be taking place outside the maths lesson to support these pupils.
- Strategies to challenge children within a maths lesson, without teaching different content.
- Session on developing fact fluency.
Tea/coffee/registration will be from 9am with the course commencing at 9.15am. The cost of the day will be £120.00 including a sandwich lunch and refreshments.
Qualifications in leadership
Unity TSA is running two cohorts this year for NPQML and NPQSL - we still have a few places left on each. If you wish to enrol on either cohort, please contact us as soon as possible so we can send the application forms across to you.
The cost of these DFE accredited courses are:
- NPQML - National Professional Qualification in Middle Leadership - £750.00 per person
- NPQSL - National Professional Qualification in Senior Leadership - £850.00 per person
The cost includes externally verified assessment and 360 diagnostic.
If you would like further information please do get in touch.
All enquiries should be sent to cpdbooking@unitytrustsolihull.org.uk.
