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Safeguarding Newsletter
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SEND and Wider Services to Schools – Part 3
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TOWN HALL OPEN DAY
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Halton Schools Coding with Crumbles
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Free Anna Freud seminar
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Free Chemistry Lesson for KS2 – 7th November
Safeguarding Newsletter
Please see attached Safeguarding newsletter October 2023.
SEND and Wider Services to Schools – Part 3
SEND and Wider Services to Schools – Part 3
@The Stadium 9am
Thursday 30th November 2023
After the success of the previous SEND services to schools we are now running a third event.
On the day various services with be showcased and how schools/setting can refer to them and the expectations that the service will provide our young people.
These will include:
- Icart
- Parenting Programme referral
- Bridgewater Park & School Nurses current offer to schools
- Social Workers – Transition Team
- Early Help Family Hubs Programme
- Parenting and Healthy Relationships Program
- Locality Teams- What you can access and when
- Youth Justice Service – What support they can give
- Asylum, Refugee & Resettlement
- Children’s Society
- School Sexual Health Support
- SEND R US
- Halton Carers
- Halton Play Council
- Halton Blindness offer
- Halton Deafness Offer
- Vision Support
- Makro Create
- Vibe UK
- NHS Transition support Ks2 to KS3
To book: https://forms.office.com/e/LUb72eVrLu
TOWN HALL OPEN DAY
Why not start the Christmas celebrations in style by performing carols in the splendour of Runcorn Town Hall.
Halton’s Mayor, Cllr Val Hill, is hosting the annual Town Hall open day on Saturday 2 December 2023 and would love your school to take part in the festivities.
See attached for more information.
Halton Schools Coding with Crumbles
Thank you to all of the schools that participated in the primary coding sessions over the last year. It’s been great to work with you and your students.
Crumble Resource Class Sets
As a reminder, we have three Crumble Coding class sets available and free for all of our schools to use. Each class set contains 16-18 individual kits, enough for children in most classes to share one between two. Each class set also contains full printed instructions to guide you and your pupils through each step.
Please email me the class sets, or if you would like to find out more about them.
Primary School Crumble Workshops
We have developed an established series of Crumble Coding workshops. As well as teaching the basics of coding, these workshops run as ‘maker-classes’ and include design technology, and circuitry whilst encouraging creative thinking and imagination. Students get to create things using sensors and can go on to design and build their own devices.
I have been running a series of sessions with a couple of schools, enabling the same students to participate in two or more 1.5 – 2-hour workshops. This has proved really successful, some of the students who participate then take on roles as young STEM-ambassadors and support the learning of other children within the school.
We can run the sessions in schools or host groups here at Daresbury Laboratory. These sessions can be tailored to your school’s needs, potential options for their delivery include:
- A one-off starter session which can be run for a number or evenall of the groups in your school
- A two-foursession workshop series with your school young STEM ambassadors from years 3-6
Secondary School Crumble After School Club Workshops
We have now developed a 5-workshop series of more advanced Crumble sessions appropriate for KS3 students, that can be delivered by Daresbury Laboratory staff. These activities would be ideal for running with children participating in After-School clubs. These workshops can be run at your schools, or students could be brought to Daresbury Laboratory. After-school coding clubs offer a brilliant opportunity, and I would be keen to help set these up too.
Crumble CPD
Our CPD training offered to schools takes around an hour to complete and has previously been delivered during school staff meetings. We can provide 15 laptops for these sessions if schools do not have enough PC’s/Chromebooks. (Unfortunately, the software doesn’t currently work for I Pads).
Contact
Please contact me on gina.czarnecki-gables@stfc.ac.uk to book me in for this academic year or to book the kits.
We also support a after school code club for 10yrs+ that is run by MakOCreate once a month in Widnes and once a month in Runcorn. Please can you distribute information to parents to book https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/mako-coding-club-widnes-runcorn-1342479
Free Anna Freud seminar
Free seminar: How education staff can support students seeking refuge and asylum
Our first Schools in Mind seminar of this academic year is taking place on Tuesday 14th November, and will look at helping education staff respond to trauma in children and young people who are seeking refuge and asylum.
The seminar will be run with experts from the UK Trauma Council, which has recently developed a toolkit to support educational communities to recognise and respond to trauma. This webinar will feature some of the council’s key learnings from their work with experts in this field, including those with lived experience of arriving in the UK to seek asylum.
How are you going to mark National Chemistry Week?
The Royal Society of Chemistry invites schools across Liverpool City Region to an inspiring one hour digital event on Tuesday 7 November.
Meet real chemical scientists working in sustainability, ask questions, brainstorm ideas and take part in a chemistry challenge. Two schools will win a digital mentoring session with a chemical scientist who will answer your class’ question in a special 1:1 session. Suitable for KS2.
Sign up now for this special opportunity, only available to schools in Liverpool City Region
https://www.big-ideas.org/chemistry-4-change/
