Governors and Heads must share strategic vision The working relationship between the Headteacher/Principal and the Chair of Governors is crucial in ensuring school effectiveness. This one day seminar is designed to enable Heads/Principals and Chairs to: • • • • •
clarify their understanding of shared strategic leadership identify what more they could do to consolidate that in their working relationship consider how to refresh the shared values and vision for their school review how they manage strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation to achieve the vision action plan to ensure effective distribution of leadership within the governing body
One day seminar Thursday 2 February 2017 9.30am to 3.30pm 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2TZ Each Chair and Head/Principal pair is asked to bring the following documentation to the seminar: • the current version of your selfevaluation form (SEF) • your school development plan (SDP) • a recent report from the head
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to the governing body and the minutes of the meeting when it was discussed your most recent pupil premium report
These documents will not be shared with others but will be needed for you to evaluate your current practice. Seminar leader: Michele Robbins Cost: all subscribing schools – free of charge, non-subscribing schools - £220 per pair. To book your places please contact Ela Cleary at ela.cleary@southwark.gov.uk or telephone 020 7525 5107.
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ast school year FareShare London may have provided you with breakfast cereal as part of the Kellogg’s Give A Child A Breakfast campaign. This year FareShare London would like to introduce you to the full FareShare Membership which can provide a wide range of food suitable for your breakfast and after school provisions. FareShare is an award winning, UK wide charity fighting hunger and food waste. We redistribute good, surplus food to frontline charities, community groups and organisations supporting vulnerable people within their local communities. FareShare reaches over 320 towns and cities, providing food for 18.3 million meals a year
and supporting 211,565 people every week. In London this translates to over 250 organisations who help to feed over 23,000 people each week. By ensuring good food is not wasted we turn an environmental problem into a social solution. For more than 20 years FareShare has been working with the food industry to identify quality, in date, good to eat surplus food that can be redistributed. The 2,489 charities that receive food from FareShare provide a lifeline to vulnerable people, including children’s breakfast and after school clubs. By receiving food from FareShare, these organisations are better able to provide nutritious meals alongside life-changing support.
Flouro light tubes Recolight was set up by the lighting industry in 2005 to take on their WEEE responsibility for recycling when the WEEE regulations were introduced into the UK. They’re also not for profit. Visit www. recolight.co.uk/lamp-recycling-forcollection-points/request-a-lampcollection.aspx for how schools can dispose of the fluoro tubes. We cannot collect them ourselves and they cannot be brought to the Veolia Southwark Reuse and Recycling Centre.
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ed Thread’s Youth Violence Intervention Programme runs in London’s four Major Trauma Centre hospitals. There, its innovative service aims to reduce serious youth violence across the capital, and has revolutionised the support available to young victims of violence. Redthread started in 1995 as a group set up by parishioners from a number of local churches in Dulwich. These individuals felt that local children and young people could be more involved in the local community, if given the facilities and activities to be so. We are no longer formally linked with the churches but Redthread is still grounded in the Christian ethos – a belief in the value of each and every human being, together with a recognition of the fundamental importance of building a community where people take responsibility for each other. One of our first projects was the Redthread Youth Club, based at the Sea Scout Hut in Green Dales. The club formed a central part of the local community and saw over a hundred young people a week gather to take part in a
range of games and activities and to socialise with friends. It was in 2002 that Redthread ventured into the world of health for the first time, by running the country’s first ever Young People’s Clinic in partnership with Paxton Green Group Practice. The after school Tuesday drop-in gave all 13-19-year-olds, whether registered or not, access to a doctor, nurse, counsellor, or youth worker. After this success, the model was replicated at Herne Hill Group Practice in 2005. In 2011 the concept behind these initiatives was given a permanent home – at the Well Centre in Streatham. You can read more about the project here. In 2015 our hospital-based Youth Violence Intervention Programme celebrated 10 years of delivery. Find out more about the programme here. Partnership is key to everything we do. We recognise that in order to provide young people with the best possible service and best possible future, collaboration is key. We work with many and varied individuals and organisations to break down the artificial barriers that restrict collaborative work, so that young people have the chance to be as healthy, safe, and happy as possible. We believe in the potential of young people to make positive changes – in their lives, in the lives of their family and friends, and in the society in which they live. We aim to support young people in increasing their ability, willingness, and confidence to access high quality, appropriate youth work, health care, and education, so that theses changes can become reality.
For all your information needs visit www.southwarkheads.org.uk
London Fire Brigade firesetter service Yolanda Houston presents a host of art materials to the King’s College Children’s Liver Unit
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nhanced Education Limited through its Teach Me offer delivers challenging and entertaining Inset days for schools.
Teach Me offers courses in painting, stained glass, mosaics, silver clay jewellery making, shabby chic restoration, cake decorations and chocolate making. In each case there is expert tuition and all tools, materials and safety equipment are provided. There is also accompanying courseware to remind people of what they have learned.
The London Fire Brigade has introduced the Juvenile Firesetters Intervention Scheme. The scheme works with children and young people who have displayed firesetting behaviour or an interest in fire. The link to the service is: www.london-fire.gov.uk/JuvenileFireSettersInterventionSchemeJFIS.asp The London Fire Brigade would like to meet with Headteachers in Southwark to inform them of the service. This could be either individually, or within a meeting where all the relevant Headteachers attend. The Brigade is keen for schools to be more aware of the service.
Rainbow Office Supplies’ unbeatable deal on paper
Rainbow office supplies have a great paper offer....just £1.60 per ream, one school recently switched supplier and saved over £2,000 a year. If you would like to take up this offer please contact Ben Jefferies at Rainbow office supplies Ben@rainbowoffice.co.uk
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For team building, there can be collaborative works. For example, groups can work on a single painting or mosaic. In each course the aim is to enable people to work outside their comfort zones. While many would claim to not be creative, the courses prove that everyone can create within the course environment. For information about Inset day programmes, call 01797 364366 or 07770 347616 or visit www.teachmecourses.co.uk. Charity gift Recently Yolanda Houston used her fee for a project to buy art materials for King’s College Hospital’s children’s Liver Unit (pictured above). She had undertaken to guide and supervise a huge team of volunteers organised by Three Elements.
www.jobs4schools.co.uk attracts over 10,000 visitors every month seeking teaching jobs! You can advertise your vacancy for as little as £50 and get the same amount of responses as advertising through the TES. You only have to register once, then upload your vacancy, associated documents or links, logo and if you make a mistake you have 30 days to log back in and change your advert at no extra cost!
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Three Elements is seeking school projects
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hree Elements the Volunteering organisation is offering a Christmas Giveaway!
The organisation’s volunteers can help with scenery for your school play, baking Christmas gingerbread (oven required), making gifts and cards for school fairs, Decorating halls and classes for Christmas. Three Elements is also looking for ongoing projects both internally and externally, such as playground refurbishment, murals, mosaics, mud kitchen’s, dens. There is also Eduhut in which Three Elements will build a shop for schools to use to sell class items from and include Lion’s Den – Just like Dragon’s Den where advice will be given on the projects. If you are interested in any of these, please contact yolanda@headexec.com
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new booklet has been published for Southwark’s secondary headteachers (SASH) entitled “Who’s Who”. The booklet contains all of the contact details of each secondary school in the borough, togther with a listing of all the key Local Authority personnel. There are also useful links for information and guidance and a short article about the work to reduce youth violence being offered by Red Thread.
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The Hilton Docklands Riverside is offering one Friday for all Southwark Schools to have their Joiner Party, which will be Friday 2nd December, other dates for Joiner Parties will be Saturdays, but this will be the only Friday date the hotel will run at the moment. The added bonus this year will be that the hotel is including a half bottle of wine for Joiner Parties only. The hotel will run the early bird promotion for Southwark Schools again so they will get a £5 discount if they book and confirm before the 30th September, after this time the price will be the regular price.
07 064 4515 | E: events.docklands@hilton.com | www.londondocklands.doubletree.com
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HEADS UP is published monthly during term time by Enhanced Education Limited. We would love to hear from you, so tell us your news:
Yolanda Houston T: 01797 364366 M: 07770 347616 E: yolanda@headexec.com
Christmas Joiner Parties: £44.95 per person Christmas Private Parties: £54.95 per person Christmas Day Lunch: £49.95 per person New Year’s Eve Party on The Thames: £299.00 per person For more information and bookings, please contact the events team on +44
For all your information needs visit www.southwarkheads.org.uk