ALPSIT Covid-19 Bulletin - 5

9TH JUNE 2020

ALPSIT NEWSLETTER Improving Our Schools Together

PANDEMIC BULLETIN NO.5 We are always here for you.

Hello everyone! Hopefully you have all had the opportunity to enjoy some time off during half-term and feeling rejuvenated somewhat for the summer term.

By now you will be adjusting to yet another set of new situations, please know you can contact us for support anytime, our details are listed below.

We're sure you're preparing to possibly welcome some more children back in your classrooms. We've included some competitions and CPD resources in this bulletin so be sure to share with staff.

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.

Fancy setting a cool home challenge for your children? Well take a look at this fab opportunity to work with a local company we love.

Watadventure are the creators of “We want to leave this book” the childrens book exploring the challenges of Brexit (not suggesting one side is right or wrong!) and were all set to run exciting workshops for us in the summer term which are sadly now on hold.

As a small enterprise they use projects like this to raise funds to develop their next important book for children. Watch out for our partner project “Politics is Rubbish” when the world is back to normal. If you are interested please follow the link or get in touch - https://alpsit.org.uk/partners/watadventure Balance are hosting a webinar on the 11th June with Mary Myatt to discuss and dissect dated processes within the school community. To join the webinar please follow this link to register https://bit.ly/blncewebinar

Church Marketplace have put together a PPE offering for schools with three accessible options. Full information and details of how to access these are on our website https://bit.ly/churchmarketplaceppe

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Updates FACEBOOK - SUBJECT LEAD GROUPS https://www.facebook.com/pg/alpsitnews1/gr oups/?ref=page_internal We have started to collect some subject leads for our Facebook groups. We would like to start our training sessions this week so please forward this to anyone you think would be a good candidate.

Your teacher will get support from us around planning online content and running an online group. If you know the perfect person could you please ask them to fill out our form by following this link https://forms.gle/UvwYnNUcJJ56NRYF9

Steam School are currently recruiting for their 2020/21 programmes. Any schools that sign up during the summer term will have access to their summer schools.

Please have a look at our partner page where you can take a look at the plans arrange a taster session -https://alpsit.org.uk/partners/steamschool/2020-21

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Courses/CPD Available

Now available from Best Practice Network - the premium online CPD library - The School Suite.

The introductory offer includes: 15 months subscription for the price of 12 – available to the first 100 schools who subscribe.

Affordable & flexible pricing.

Training & support to help your school get the most from the CPD toolkits.

The School Suite currently contains 2 CPD Toolkits covering Teaching and SEND. Each Toolkit is made up of six modules and contains 36 guided learning hours aligned to the corresponding professional standards. The content has an emphasis on skills building, providing the opportunity to produce useful, relevant resources and put learning into practice.

Candidates that complete a full CPD toolkit (not just a module) will receive a certificate accredited by The CPD Accreditation Service.

In addition, we will be adding a ‘Leading Teaching’ Toolkit in the Autumn and more in 2021 at no additional cost.

Signing up is simple, please either visit https://bestpracticenet.co.uk/the-school-suite or share this link with your school leadership team if you would like your colleagues to benefit from this highly accessible and accredited online CPD.

The BPN team is always on hand to answer any questions. Please call 0117 920 9200 or email cpd@bestpracticenet.co.uk

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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

12 Apostles have sent us two fabulous videos their school have put together.

One of some of their children singing AND signing "I can sing a rainbow" and one for those meant to be doing SAT's. Get the tissues out, they're both tear jerkers!

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- FROM CLASS OF 2020 -