Latest news - September 2024
Welcome Back!
Yes, time flies. With the summer holidays behind us and Christmas now round the corner(!), we wanted to welcome you all back and wish everyone the best for a fantastic year.
To help ease your return to the classroom, we’ve rounded up all the latest PSHE, RSHE and personal development news, including dates for your diary and top resources for primary schools.
As always, if you have any questions or would like more information about your account, our products and other services, contact info@1decision. co.uk
Best wishes for a successful school year,
The 1decision Team
Why Are We Celebrating?
1decision Scores Shortlisting Hattrick! Will you vote for us?
We are thrilled to announce that since we last spoke, 1decision has been shortlisted for not one, not two, but THREE awards.
At the end of July, we were shortlisted for the upcoming Teach Early Years Awards and Teach Primary Awards 2024. We’re nominated in both the Happy and Healthy for Teach Early Years and the Wellbeing category for Teach Primary Awards.
Setting us up for the hattrick, last
week we received the fabulous news that we’re shortlisted for Education Today School & Suppliers Awards’ Wellbeing Resource of the Year.
This is where you can help. We need your vote by 30th September 2024 to move us through the next stages.
Click here to take us to finals.
“These nominations helped to lift team spirit while we worked through the holidays and are certainly a testament to everyone’s unwavering commitment,” comments Hayley, 1decision CEO.
The winners from Teach Early Years and Teach Primary will be announced in November, while the Education Today Award ceremony is due to take place on 6th December 2024.
Until then, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our dedicated team, partners and the educators who trust 1decision to make a difference in their classrooms.
Wish us luck as we approach the final stage of the awards. Your vote
Click here will make a difference! Thank you, as always, for your continued support.
TO CAST YOUR VOTE
Midmonthmadness Competition Winner Chosen
All good things must come to an end. And our midmonthmadness competition is no exception.
From the middle of May until the end of the summer term, we gave you and your schools the chance to win one-of-four subscriptions to 1decision’s seriously engaging PSHE resources.
A massive congratulations goes to the final winner for July’s #midmonthmadness competition, Amanda Bacon and her school, Grindleford Primary, for winning a years’ access to 1decision.
For those who missed out this time, find and follow us on socials to stay tuned for details of our next giveaway!
Programme Updates
Your School Portal Has a New Look | New User-Friendly Customer Interface
Noticed something different? We’ve polished your school portal with a brand new, stupidly easy userfriendly interface that makes it even simpler to navigate through our resources, videos and topic guides.
Our design and development team were busy over the summer holidays creating a more engaging, clearer and easy-to-navigate interface - just for you.
Vibrant and fresher than a newlysharpened pencil at the start of the school term, our worksheets, activities and interactive videos can’t wait to be taught. See for yourself by logging in to your account.
Our Partner Updates
Cancer Awareness Month: Access Our Assembly with The Little Princess Trust
September is Cancer Awareness Month and to support, we’re sharing an assembly and lesson plan. We worked with The Little Princess Trust to create content that helps schools approach this difficult subject sensitively.
Our updated resources are now live and ready to review. Access via your 1decision portal to:
- Reduce children’s anxiety around the word ‘cancer’
- Increase pupil understanding of charities and the work they do
- Teach about the research into reducing childhood cancer
The Little Princess Trust provides free, real-hair wigs to children who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments.
Gold Stars All Round for NRAC 2024 Entrants
Congratulations to all participants in Fonetti’s National Read Aloud Challenge 2024.
The challenge, which started in June and finished 1 September 2024, encouraged children across the nation to read aloud and enhance their oracy over the summer holidays.
The leaderboard remained both competitive and impressive throughout with over 180,000 reading sessions, 13,000 hours of reading and 10,000 individual readers striving to secure the top spots.
Watch this space as we await the results and school winner announcement. Visit Fonetti’s website for the latest updates and leaderboard standings.
Resources for Teachers
Have you caught up with all the features, news and expert commentary in FOCUS: Personal Development in Schools Magazine yet? If not, the content is still relevant. Check it out, here
Packed with hundreds of engaging resources, videos and lesson plans, our 1decision catalogue is ready and waiting to help support you in teaching and developing young minds.
Labour Scraps Single Headline Ofsted Grades
In a bid to boost school standards and increase transparency for parents, the government officially announced the scrapping of single headline grades for schools with immediate effect on 2nd September 2024.
Four grades are now available across existing sub-categories:
1. quality of education, 2. behaviour and attitudes, 3. personal development; and 4. leadership & management.
Report Cards hope to provide parents with a full and comprehensive assessment of how schools are performing are expected from September 2025.
To learn more about how Labour plan to improve the education experience
Sector News
for children and read the full story, click here
Spotlight on Sexual Health Week and RSHE Guidance Update
As today marks the start of Sexual Health Week (9th - 15th September), it's important to highlight the delivery of responsible, age-appropriate education on puberty, relationships and well-being.
Our team understand the sensitivity of these subjects and the ongoing discussions about when and how to introduce them in schools.
While we await the new Labour government’s actions regarding the RSHE draft guidance consultation, we’re committed to ensuring our resources stay aligned with the latest recommendations.
The Conservative-led consultation
closed on 11th July 2024, six days after Labour took over.
Schoolsweek collected signatories from organisations looking for a ‘fresh start’, including the ASCL and NAHT leaders’ unions, the PSHE Association, Sex Education Forum, Barnardo’s, Refuge and Everyone’s Invited.
“We are calling on the next government to discard the draft guidance and begin this process in due course, focusing on the needs of children and young people and supporting teachers to deliver a highquality, inclusive curriculum.”
TO
Have you explored our new resources yet?
Assemblies for Autumn
We’ve created a 4-part assembly pack fresh for the autumn term, which we hope will help your PSHE and personal development teachings start on the right note.
Head to the assembly section in your portal - which is already included in your subscription - to access:
• Assembly 1: Returning to School and Readiness to Learn
• Assembly 2: Good Behaviour and Respect
• Assembly 3: Attendance, Asking for Help and Safety
• Assembly 4: Responsibility and Safe Movement
Each assembly lasts around 15-20 minutes and includes videos to engage pupils and reinforce positive behaviour.
Not yet a customer? Access the assemblies for free within our taster pack
Lucy Emmerson, CEO of the Sex Education Forum, said age restrictions would be a “backward step making children more vulnerable to abuse and harm”. TO
Awareness Days
Resources for World First Aid Day:
At 1decision, we believe in preparing children for all of life’s adventures, big and small. We’ve seen first-hand that engaging PSHE education can teach our young learners the tools and lessons for a happier, healthier and more harmonious life.
First aid is no exception. Interestingly, results from our pupil Personal Development Quiz, show that first aid is an area where confidence and knowledge are particularly low. That’s why we’re focusing on the top ways to teach first aid in primary schools.
Teaching first aid to children is not just showing them how to bandage cuts and scrapes; it’s about creating the knowledge and awareness of responsibility – or rather - ‘response and ability’, which helps to build children’s confidence and selfesteem.
Click here to find out more about why teaching first aid is so crucial and look at the top PSHE resources for this subject area.
Dates for your calendar
September 2024
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
9th – 15th Sexual Health Week
13th – Roald Dahl Story Day
14th - World First Aid Day
15th – International Day of Democracy
21st – International Peace Day
21st – World Gratitude Day
23rd-29th – International Week of Deaf People
25th - 1st - Recycle Week
27th – National Teaching Assistants Day
29th - International Day of Awareness for Food Loss & Waste
October 2024
Black History Month
ADHD Awareness Month
7th – 13th World Mental Health Week 16th World Food Day
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