Communications (test)
Tuesday 1 October 2019
Parent/carer support meeting, 7-9pm at Marston Green Parish Hall, free to members and £5 for non-members. We will be discussing "what is dyspraxia and how do we talk to our children about it?"
To reserve a place or for more information please email Helen or Imogen on wmdyspraxia@gmail.com
Monday 7 October 2019
Supporting pupils with dyspraxia in mainstream schools - this is an evening event, 7-9pm with talks from a range of professionals including Sally Payne (OT) and Jo Shilton (SISS). It is aimed at teachers, teaching assistants and other professionals working in schools and also may be of interest to some parents wishing to educate/inform/support teachers. Tickets cost £7 for members and £15 for non-members.
Please email Helen or Imogen Rowe on wmdyspraxia@gmail.com for more details or to book a place follow this link.
Solihull education improvement service has launched a revised school improvement strategy. Over the next two weeks, schools will receive notification of which category their school is in, who their adviser is, and therefore the amount of support they can access during this academic year. Your school adviser will be in touch to arrange dates.
We are inviting schools to 'opt-in' to a visit by contacting early years enquiries. Once the school is allocated an early years adviser that adviser will contact the school to arrange a suitable date and agenda.
The visit will encompass all of the EYFS provision under the school's Ofsted registration and may include a discussion with the EYFS lead and the extended services leads.
Further information is included in the attached letter.
This document outlines the strengths and areas for development that resulted from taking into account feedback from moderators, headteachers, observations during quality assurance visits, EIMS, the KS1 STA external moderation visit and learning from the moderation manager undertaking the STA operational external moderator role.
Through consultation with schools, and question level analysis of 2017 and 2018 KS2 SAT papers, the primary maths forum identified the need for support with the teaching of fractions. The fractions domain has been divided into separate key areas which include
- Counting in fractions
- Recognising and identifying fractions
- Comparing and ordering fractions (incl. equivalence)
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Multiplying and dividing fractions
For each key area, a variety of ideas are presented illustrating how concrete resources/ manipulatives can be used in teaching progressively from year 1 to year 6, as well as pictures and images and abstract representations for each concept.
Mosaic is offering training on phonics and reading for primary teachers and teaching assistants this term.
Please see attached flyer for further information and booking details.
Following last year’s successful event SSSAB is delighted to invite you to this year’s deputy headteachers’ conference at Ardencote Hotel on Thursday 3 October 2019.
The conference is titled ‘Everyone’s talking about the Curriculum’ and we are pleased to offer one place for each school at no charge. There is a small fee for any additional delegates.
Please see the attached documents for full details and a booking form to be returned by Tuesday 17 September 2019.
It is important that you reserve a place if you wish to attend, to ensure there is sufficient seating and catering.
The conference held at Sans Souci on Friday 18 October 2019 will feature a range of case studies including, new technologies, low-cost energy efficiency measures and engaging pupils.
Please see the attached flyer for more information.
Dear Headteacher
KSCIE 2019
Please find attached the link to the revised KCSIE (2019). https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2
The detail on the substantive changes is listed in Appendix H, page 108 of KCSIE (2019).
Key points are:-
- Upskirting (page 10 paragraph 27 and page 89).
- Changes to new local arrangements under the new local safeguarding children partnership. An update on this will take place at the Designated Education Safeguarding Lead’s conferences.
The revised model child protection policy is available at https://www.solgrid.org.uk/education/safeguarding/child-protection/.
The revised model safeguarding policy is available at https://www.solgrid.org.uk/education/safeguarding/.
Lorraine Lord
Senior Education Safeguarding Officer
The annual DSL conference days (8.30 am - 4 pm) are to be held at Sans Souci on Monday 30 September 2019, Monday 7 October 2019, and at Grace Academy on Thursday 24 October 2019.
The annual governor safeguarding conference is at Solihull School on Wednesday 9 October 2019 at 6.30 pm.
Please confirm which day you wish to attend to inset@solihull.gov.uk.
Thank you.
Lorraine Lord, Senior Education Safeguarding Officer
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