School news highlights

Watch Talk for Writing in action at Parkside complex needs school. See how they have adapted the methodology to meet the communication and literacy needs of our diverse cohort.

We are offering fully funded EAL CPD and a programme of support for schools with Ukrainian children and young people to enable you and your staff to meet the needs of your school community more effectively. The Ukraine programme includes EAL CPD interpretation services, Norfolk Steps, nationally accredited awards, funding for GSCE support and staff cover costs.

Information relating to changes to the term time weekly vulnerable pupil reports for Designated Safeguarding Leads.

UEA's School of Education and Lifelong Learning will be holding PGCE Teacher Training Information Sessions very shortly. If you are interested to study the University PGCE programmes at UEA, please read.

All schools are required to submit a prejudice-based incident report for the academic year 23-24. This includes a nil return, which means schools must report even if they have not recorded any incidents. The deadline for submitting the report is 25 October 2024.

We know that schools and parents can sometimes find it difficult to find the information they need, being able to talk to someone to navigate the support on offer will help ensure that the right support is available at the right time, first time; therefore we are providing a support line service.

The Education Finance team has published this month's Finance Focus Newsletter. As this is the first edition of the new academic year, this is a bumper edition with a number of important articles and information.

Our newly launched Transitions Toolkit comprises of a Whole School Approach guide, Transitions Timelines for each of the key phase transfer points and Welcome Packs.

Please ensure we have received the attendance information for new Yr R and Yr 7 children by 26 September to enable the next stage of the process to be concluded.

Further to the change of structure of the High Needs SEND Service into a locality structure to support good relationships with Schools and Settings, we are very pleased to announce Amy Hanton will be the Head of Service for North, East and Broadland.

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