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While the programme reached over 90% of the targets in some southern regions, the North East came in last with less than 60% of the target number of schools for the region engaging and this lack of engagement has now become a topic of national interest.
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| Department for Education ministers take questions from MPs |
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Ministers from the Department for Education took questions in the House of Commons on Monday, following on from the announcements the week before on school opening, exams, and catch-up funding.
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| Education Recovery Commissioner tells MPs that recovery ‘won’t be over quickly’ |
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The House of Commons’ education select committee continued its inquiry into the impact of covid-19 on education on Tuesday, taking evidence from the recently appointed Education Recovery Commissioner, Sir Kevan Collins.
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| Northumberland Primary School Scoops Pioneering Mental Health Award |
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A Northumberland primary school has achieved the School Mental Health Award which is delivered by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools. NCEA Warkworth C of E Primary School has become one of just five schools across the UK to be awarded a Gold standard for its outstanding mental health and wellbeing provision
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Northumbria Police pledges 78 devices to Laptops for Kids campaign for those most in need
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More than 2,500 laptops, tablets and computers have now been donated to help disadvantaged children learn during lockdown
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School puts faith into action to thank their NHS hospital heroes
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Pupils and staff at St Patrick’s Catholic College are looking to provide chill-out zones for staff who have worked so hard throughout the pandemic
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New co-heads at Duchess's Community High School in Alnwick say school is safe as 1,450 pupils set to return
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Plans are in place for the return of 1,450 pupils to Duchess’s Community High School in Alnwick.
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Minibus appeal target draws near for Hexham Priory School
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A fundraising campaign to pay for a new minibus for a special needs school in the Tyne Valley is close to reaching its target.
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Children challenged to design a face mask
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Healthcare provider Medicspot has launched an exciting competition to promote mask-wearing, challenging primary school pupils across Berwickshire to put their creative skills to the test and design their own face mask.
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Primary schools to sign up for SplashLearn's SpringBoard Maths Challenge
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The popular, game-based learning programme SplashLearn has announced the first UK edition of its SpringBoard Maths Challenge.
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Sunderland schoolboy sent lockdown homework to Sir David Attenborough and received amazing reply
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A Sunderland pupil’s homeschooling sessions have been brightened with a letter and signed photograph from his hero, Sir David Attenborough.
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Greenfield support healthy minds
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Staff and students at Greenfield Community College have been continuing their learning journey whilst taking care of their mental health.
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Head Teacher had 'vision of a modern Hogwarts hall’ for school's new £1m dining room
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Happy family memories have inspired planned dining space at Trinity Catholc College as part of multi-million refurbishment
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WHAT'S HAPPENING ON CONNECTED?
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Learning Modules
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Check out the Learning Modules in our Ednorth group
For resources, information, news and research around a range of topics and issues including: Metacognition, SEMH, Recovery Curriculum, Covid Catch-up, Blended Learning and Assessment for Learning, check out the Learning Modules on the Ednorth group on ConnectEd.
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Assessment for Learning
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What's new this week
In this week’s update of the Assessment for Learning module on ConnectEd there are literature reviews from the National Foundation for Educational Research which looks at AfL in primary science, Dylan William’s five formative assessment strategies & the EEF’s guide to embedding formative assessment in the curriculum.
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SMEH Module
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Strategies to support the return to school
With children returning to the classroom from Monday, a lot of focus has been on the mental health and well-being of both staff and students. In the Ednorth SEMH Learning Module you can find information and strategies to deal with challenging behaviours, how to reflect of life in lockdown, well-being tips and strategies for staff and much more.
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Speakers Announced
Emma Knights OBE, Chief Executive, National Governance Association
Belita Scott, Senior HMI, North East, Yorkshire and Humber region, Ofsted
Hannah Stolton, CEO, Governors for Schools
Fee Stagg, National Leader of Governance, Trustee, Chair, Governance Professional, Success Begins with Governance
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Speaker Announced
Mary Myatt, Education adviser, writer and speaker
Dr Debra Kidd, Education adviser, writer and speaker
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Curriculum Conference 2021
10am Apr 28, 2021
Book your FREE place now.
 Mental health has been an issue of growing concern for school leaders in recent years, however this year it has become more important than ever due to the Coronavirus crisis. The ongoing crisis, alongside partial school closures and lockdown measures have caused a number of issues for students and staff alike, from the disrupted routines, stress of lockdown and anxiety of the pandemic, to bereavement under very difficult circumstances. These issues are widespread and have required a new approach from staff and schools
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Budget 2021 a ‘missed opportunity’ with no extra funding for schools
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This year’s budget has been described as a “missed opportunity” for education after it failed to provide additional cash for schools.
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Call for post-Covid rethink on school funding formula
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More support needed' for disadvantaged pupils to recover from Covid impact, say education researchers
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Watchdog fears public bodies will avoid statistical models following exam grading backlash
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Public bodies may be “less willing” to use statistical models to support decisions in future after the system to award exam grades last year failed to “command public confidence”, the statistics watchdog has warned.
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Pupils need 'bold and ambitious' recovery plan, says tsar
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Children need a period of recovery that is "long-term and sustained and far-reaching", England's education recovery commissioner has told MPs.
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Teachers have ‘excess’ Covid risk during lockdown
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Difference between infection rates of education workers and the rest of the population has increased, new data suggests
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One in five UK schools has set up a food bank in Covid crisis, survey suggests
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A third of teachers say schools have become key providers of support services for families in poverty
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Narrowing attainment gap stopped being ‘main focus’ of DfE in 2015, says former permanent secretary
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Efforts to narrow the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their better-off peers ceased to be a “main focus” for the Department for Education in 2015, its former top civil servant has claimed.
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Exams go from control freakery to freewheeling
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What's so remarkable and potentially risky about this replacement system for exam results in England is that it is so freewheeling, with teachers having huge flexibility over how to decide A-level and GCSE grades for their own pupils.
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Teachers 'need support to handle pupil lockdown trauma'
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Teachers must be properly equipped to recognise where children have had traumatic experiences in lockdown, NSPCC says
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Giving kids a break is the best way for them to 'catch up' after a year of disruption
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Studies have shown that promoting wellbeing through play goes a long way to boost academic outcomes
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