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The Department for Education have produced guidance to share and encourage best practice for dealing with school complaints.
Please view the SMBC model school's complaints policy and policy for managing serial complainants 2019 which you are free to adopt and /or tailor to your individual school.
The documents are on the complaints page https://www.solgrid.org.uk/education/support-services/complaints/
Please contact Natasha Cooke on 0121 704 8536 if you need any additional information or advice.
Clean air day is coming up and this is a great chance to raise awareness in the classroom of the issues that we are facing locally and nationally around air quality especially if you are thinking of taking up the offer of diffusion tube monitoring.
There is a schools toolkit on the clean air day website, link below, that will provide you with useful activities and tips for how you and pupils can get involved.
The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham is conducting research into views and personal lives of religious education teachers. The survey should take approximately 25 minutes to complete.
We are having a key stage one data day. This will be an opportunity for senior leaders to analyse their key stage one data and work with the local authority data team and school improvement team. It will be specifically useful for infant schools who do not attend data day on the 9 July 2019. It is a drop in session but if you could inform us at inset@solihull.gov.uk if you intend to attend that would be useful.
The session is at Sans Souci from 10am to 2pm on the 2nd July 2019
Dear Head Teacher/SENCO
Many thanks to those of you who have reported part-time timetables using the paperwork provided.
There remain a number of schools that have not yet responded though. As I have indicated previously, OFSTED are focussing on the arrangements that local authorities have in relation to part-time time-tables and the lack of a suitable process is likely to contribute towards a, ‘requires improvement’ finding in a school OFSTED inspection.
A deadline date of 15 June 2019 was provided. I am extending this to the 30 June 2019 for those schools who have not yet been able to respond. Please can you give some priority to this over the next week or two?
PLEASE REMEMBER – If you do not have any pupils on a PTTT, it is important that you provide a nil return to indicate this.
Kind Regards
Ann Lowe
Head of Service
