NAHE Update
February 12th, 2024
Hospital schools on the mental health crisis frontline
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/hospital-schools-on-the-mental-health-crisis-frontline/
Really good to see our sector and the challenges we face being shared with the wider educational world.
Thanks to everyone who contributed
Forthcoming events and save the dates
Webinar 11th March - ‘Preventable harm: the link from policy to school practice to student mental health linked school absence in Key Stage 4, what literature and student experiences are telling us and how we might respond
Subthemes look at curriculum, behaviour, pedagogy, assessment, neurodiversity and inclusion and offers responses from young people in mainstream, Tier 4, AP and PRU settings.
Webinar 30th April - Autism and EBSA
Researcher who has recently completed a study in this aera will share her findings with us.
Thursday 27th and Friday 28th June - Leadership conference
Focus on leadership approaches on Thursday led by Jay Davenport (https://www.themerakispark.com/) with networking and workshops in the afternoon, with Representation Matters (https://www.repmatters.co.uk/) leading us on Friday an EDI focussed session looking at our core beliefs and understanding unconscious bias and being an inclusive leader. There will then be an opportunity to have a more in depth look at equality impact assessments, developing your EDI strategy, challenging perspectives with practical ways to implement a strategy. This will be led by Aisha Baines.
Tickets on sale after half term
EPI Inclusion Toolkit for schools
The Education Policy Institute think tank has launched a new online tool that allows school groups – councils and academy trusts – to be compared based on how inclusive they are. Measures include admissions, exclusions and attainment of disadvantaged pupils.
EPI has now called for a review on the accountability and inspection system and admissions to focus more on inclusion measures.
It also wants the Department for Education to publish “easily accessible metrics for school groups” so people can see the “relative strengths and weaknesses of schools”.
Worth sharing with local schools and being aware of its existence.
AI tools to try out for
Check this out - may save you some time finding reousrces https://beta.diffit.me/#topic
Microsoft user? Check out details of the co-pilot to support you here
Colleague on X has compiled this extensive list of helpful sites you may want to look at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Pt9oK3_WSUK3j2HDEE4waunl2ygwr4WpMboW-YsDxZ4/htmlview#gid=469403031
PANS and PANDAS - training and resources
PANDAS is Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus. PANS is when the severe onset of OCD symptoms is linked to another infection. These are long term conditions that impact on children and there is now also NICE guidelines.
The charity is running several free training sessions for you to find out more and some useful resources. Further details below:
Monday 26th February - 4-5.15pm
Wednesday 7th February 4-5.15
Link to a new PDF created by twinkl with a number of useful resources.
They will also arrange bespoke sessions if you would like them
Open University KS3 Building a culture of reading
Find out more about creating a reading culture in key stage 3 in this webinar from the Open University on 22nd February - it is a linked to their building a culture of reading strategy
Chartered College of Teaching - primary oracy project
Join the next CCT webinar from the #RethinkingCurriculum project, on oracy in primary schools, run by expert practitioners -
Sign up free here: https://chartered.pulse.ly/mk5xod6aac
Read for Good readathon
Register your school to run Readathon, the sponsored read from Read for Good, before 7th March to get access to our free live event with Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho on Fri 8th March https://readforgood.org/joseph-coelho/
PE Life skills award
From the Youth Sports Trust, the PE Life Skills Award, allows you to recognise pupils for building skills in PE that impact on their resilience, collaboration, leadership, independence and confidence. So much of what pupils learn in PE has gone unrecognised. You can learn more here: https://youthsporttrust.org/hero-resources/pe-life-skills-award…