Educate Norfolk eNewsletter

We made it!

I hope it has been successful first half term for all. This is always one of the trickiest as we balance back to school with it's new students, staff and parents and the inevitable change this brings, the evenings and mornings darkening and the time to reach this half term holiday seems to stretch out never endingly beyond us.

This year we also had the additional pressure of the new Ofsted framework and the uncertainty of what the reality of a new inspection may entail. Many of our schools have now experienced both Section 5 and Section 8 inspections under the new framework and we hope colleagues will be able to share their personal experiences of the inspection with you at the Autumn Term Leadership Updates.

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We would like to thank all those that attended our 2019 annual conference on 26th and 27th of September.

We had a fantastic turnout of delegates, speakers and exhibitors as we spent two days at the lovely Dunston Hall, focusing on well being and leading our schools. We are still chasing some of the presentations from the speakers. Becky will be sending out the one we have on the first day back after have term.

We have spent some considerable time analysing the feedback we received, and then formulating a plan regarding the basic details for next years conference. We will send the draft programme out to all headteachers in early spring, enabling you to feedback on our speaker and content suggestions to ensure the conference will fit the needs of all schools.

We fully appreciate and agree with the feedback regarding our date choice of September. We cannot move our conference to the second half of the Autumn term due to clashes with other providers and in school activities in both primaries and secondaries.

Therefore, the date for next years conference is 15^th and 16^th October 2020, location TBC. Please add this to your diaries.

We welcome any suggests or requests for speakers or content, please direct these to Kirsty, [email protected].

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Education_Services_Directory_Autumn_19 _pdf 661.89 KB

We are pleased to share the most recent Education Services Directory. It can be printed as an A3 leaflet or saved to your computer for quick reference.

The link to this electronically is stored on the directory on our website and is updated to the most recent version each time it is changed.

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The NHS would like to share information with Norfolk schools about a new service, dedicated to supporting young people and adults with an addiction to computer gaming.

Addiction to computer games has recently been recognised as a mental health condition by the World Health Organisation.

As such the NHS has taken steps to increase and improve the support for young people. The link below will take you to the overview provided by the NHS.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/10/children-treated-for-computer-gaming-addiction-under-nhs-long-term-plan/

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Please see the details below regarding CPD available in Norfolk over the next few months.

Educator Solutions CPD calendar - http://s4s.norfolk.gov.uk/Training

VNET CPD calendar - https://viscountnelson.net/events/