Communications (test)
Solihull’s annual commemorative service marking Holocaust Memorial Day will take place on Thursday 24th January 2019. Please see the attached letter for further information.
For more information about this year’s theme: Torn from Home, please see the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s link below.
For more information about frame football for pupils age 5 up and pan-disability football for age 7+, please see posters attached 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.
Applications for the 2019/20 Farmington Scholarships are now open. These are Scholarships available to teachers of religious education and associated subjects in UK secondary, primary, and special needs schools. Head teachers who wish to undertake research into either religious education or values education are also eligible to apply.
Scholarships cover the cost of tuition, essential local travel and, by negotiation with the school, the salary of a replacement teacher up to point 6 of the main pay scale. Scholarships last for a maximum of 30 days and can either be taken at a local university (we have links with 15 throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) or can be home-based with a local tutor. Further information and an application form can be found on the link below.
Dates have now been arranged for spring term 2019 writing moderation. Please see letter and relevant paperwork attached below.
PLEASE NOTE: all sessions for this term are now FULL.
From 2019 there will be a change to the nursery admissions process. Nursery process will be met in part by the council for 2019 admissions after which it will pass wholly to schools. For full details of the review and supporting paperwork, please see information attached below.
Please find below the framework that was agreed by the SMBC Domestic Abuse Priority Group ahead of International Day on 25th November 2018, for the elimination of violence against women and girls. Please could you consider how to use it within your organisation, including with staff.
Schools in Solihull have valued Loudmouth’s contribution to their work around relationships and sex education over the years. Some last minute dates have become available in December that they are offering at a discounted price, please see document attached below for the full list of dates.
Information about the theatre in education programmes they are running are available in their online brochure, please see link below.
For full details, please see letter from Clair McNeill attached below.
Victim Support has set up a new Hate Crime Project pilot in Solihull and Wolverhampton, providing tailored one-to-one support for victims of hate crime in the local areas. For further information, please see below.
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