Communications
For full details, please see document attached below.
Please find below invitation, agenda and booking form for the Deputy Headteachers’ Conference at Ardencote Hotel. Replies to Jane Watts required by Monday 24th September 2018 please.
Headteachers are reminded that the revised Sickness Absence Management (SAM) policy has been uploaded onto the Solgrid Extranet. The revised policy (and guidance notes) has a number of changes including an amended trigger point – 4 occasions of absence within a 12 month rolling period replaces three periods of absence over the previous six months. This will have the effect of increasing the number of employees who will be required to attend a Stage 1 sickness absence review meeting. The new policy will need to be ratified by the Governing Body during the first half term, with the aim of being implemented by 1 November 2018. Schools will also need to make arrangements to ensure all employees are familiar with the policy and have access to it. For more information please see briefing document attached below.
As you are aware, each year in England, school children in Reception and Year 6 have their height and weight checked at school as part of the National Child Measurement Programme. Height and weight measurements are used to calculate weight status. We collect this information because it is in the public interest to understand how many children are overweight, healthy weight or underweight. The checks are carried out by the Solihull School Nurse Team and you will have been contacted by them to arrange a date for Reception and Year 6 in your school to have their height and weight measured. Children are measured fully clothed, except for their coats and shoes, in a private space away from other pupils.
As part of the drive to be more streamlined and efficient, the letter informing parents/carers that children will be measured is attached to this edition of Headlines. We would be extremely grateful if you could email this letter to the parents/carers of children in Reception and Year 6.
This letter is extremely important as it informs parents/carers of the height and weight checks and enables them to opt-out of the programme should they wish to.
If you don’t use email as a means to contact parents/carers and wish to have paper copies to distribute to them, please contact edims@solihull.gov.uk
Please also see attached document which is a guide to parents and carers about the heights and weights checks and we would be grateful if this could be emailed out to parents/carers with the letter.
Please see booklet attached below recommended by Liam Laughton (Primary Mental Health Team Manager, Solar) as a reminder to staff about how the brain responds to the perceived threats presented by the school environment.
