ALPSIT Covid-19 Bulletin - 7

9TH JUNE 2020

ALPSIT NEWSLETTER Improving Our Schools Together

PANDEMIC BULLETIN NO.7 We are always here for you.

We hope you are all doing ok out there!

It's great to see such perseverance and positivity from you all.

This week we have some reminders about access to our solution satellite with Science Bug and links to free CPD. Please contact us with any suggestions, news or concerns - k.rufo@rcaol.org.uk, r.jones@rcaol.org.uk Best wishes, Klare and Rhi x

COVID-19 UPDATES AND RESOURCES The dedicated Covid-19 part of our site has numerous new updates and resources. Please take a look. https://www.alpsit.org.uk/cor onavirus-support page 01

Great opportunites, savings, and support available to ALPSIT schools.

If you're looking to develop your science curriculum we still have places on our Solution Satellite with Science Bug. The programme offers their complete science curriculum resource free to 15 ALPSIT schools.

If you would like to sign up please fill out our short form https://forms.gle/Ui2sL6sbjPtTmSfc6 Find out more here: https://bit.ly/ScienceBugSS

Knowsley CLC's have created a guide to parental controls across a range of digital platforms.

You can download your copy here - https://alpsit.org.uk/goodpractice/sharing-resources-and-ideas/parental-controls-booklet-2020knowsley-clc-s

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Updates Renaissance's free myON trial site is set to continue throughout the summer to avoid a summer reading slide.

With access to over 7000 books and 5 daily myON News articles there's enough to keep the whole school reading until it's back to school time in September.

The keep reading page can be found here http://www.renlearn.co.uk/keep-reading/

We will be including a termly policy update on our site. These are national documents and offer a useful summary of all national publications, the first of which can be found here https://alpsit.org.uk/good-practice/generalupdate-documents

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Subject Leads - Sharing Good Practice Does your school have a great subject lead in Maths or Art? Geography or any other subject? We want to hear from you for our subject specific online networks.

If you know the perfect person could you please ask them to fill out this form; https://forms.gle/5swNntPyeCXb7Kmq9 page 03

Courses/CPD Available

Applications for NPQ's are open until the 24th of July.

Remember they remain free to all ALPSIT schools.

You can apply via this link https://www.bestpracticenet.co.uk/npq then when prompted enter these details; training provider: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool unique code: RCAOL We have more information on the courses via our website https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/npq/autumn-19-and-spring-20-course-update

The Roar - Response to Mental Health in Primary Schools Don't forget to sign up for the ROAR bite-size courses. We are happy to announce they have created two zoom session dates especially for our schools. These will take place via Zoom on the 9th and 13th of July.

To join onto this great course please book on via this link - https://www.roarresponse.com/overview/book/

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Good News Section Thank you for all your messages. There really is no end to your talents, thank you https://www.alpsit.org.uk/coronavirus-support/ourschools Keep it coming and please send us your good news stories, we want to share them amongst our community! r.jones@rcaol.org.uk Our Lady Of Walsingham team with some lovely updates on their recent school experiences.

https://youtu.be/xB7GeOnqY-E

https://youtu.be/JUm6Y5FFGP0

St John Bosco's Year 2 group with the sweetest message of hope and thanks.

https://youtu.be/rTPRdmyHk4g Look at this beautiful prayer and reflection garden the staff and key-worker children at St Bartholomew's in Rainhill have built!

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Entries are now open for the 2020 Educate Awards. Do you have a good recommendation for one of their 21 categories?

Entries close at Midnight on the 5th of July.

School Superheroes - Wall of Fame!

School Bus have a school superhero campaign running. You can nominate a member of your team that has gone above and beyond during the pandemic and they will be included on their 'Wall Of Fame' page on their site. We love the Good News stories coming from this time, it would be great to see one of our schools up there!