12th December 2024
School News
Tysoe CofE Primary celebrated World Kindness Day and Children’s Mental Health Week last month. The entire school was tasked with the ‘Kindness Challenge’ and had a week to complete it as best they could. They also took part in the live assembly on World Kindness Day itself.
A Request to Senior Leaders from Jen Jenkins
Jen Jenkins is currently crafting an online programme ‘Senior Leaders in Church Schools’; similar to the successful Middle Leaders Programme we already have. She has been shadowing Heads in schools to gain a deeper understanding of the role in these times, but would also like to invite a wider group of senior leaders to respond to the questions that are explored on those shadow days.
If you would like to help out, please complete the questions in the link sent to you by email – skipping any questions you don’t want to answer, and adding any additional comments at the end. It should take around 5-10 mins and the deadline for completion is Monday 6th January 2025. Thank you!
CPD Coming Up in the Spring Term…
Click on the following links for further information and to book places/receive the recording.
Headteachers
Tues 21 January – Termly Headteacher Briefing
RE/Collective Worship
Weds 8 January – Collective Worship in a CofE School
Mon 13 January – RE CPD (topic to be decided after consultation with RE Leads)
Weds 22 January – Half termly RE Clinic
Tues 04 February – Understanding Christianity and the New Agreed Syllabus
Tues 11 February – Small Schools Network (Those who have previously attended need not book – we will send the information and zoom link in due course)
Tues 11 March – Half termly RE Clinic
SIAMS
Tues 28 January – Spirituality Short
Weds 29 January – Kingdom of God Flourishing through IQ5 in your school
Weds 12 February – Termly SIAMS update
Weds 26 February – Governors – Monitoring and Evaluating the Impact of RE
Weds 05 March – Spirituality Short
Mon 10 March – Governors – Monitoring and Evaluating the Impact of Collective Worship
Weds 26 March – Introduction to SIAMS – part 1 (second session is on Weds 02 April – only one booking needed for both recorded sessions)
Mon 31 March – Spirituality Short
Thrive Licensed Childhood Practitioner Course from the Stour Federation MAT
Stour Federation MAT are offering this course in the spring term. The Thrive Childhood Practitioner Course will revolutionise how you view behaviour. Equipped with Thrive-Online, you will learn how to identify pupils’ social and emotional needs and create targeted action plans to remove barriers to learning. See further details and how to sign up here.
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