May 2020 Newsletter

MAY 2020

ALPSIT NEWSLETTER Improving Our Schools Together

WEEK 23464 OF LOCK DOWN We are always here for you.

Welcome to our second covid-19 newsletter.

We hope you found some useful information in our last edition. The website is updated with lots of new information and resources every week so please take a look and let us know if we missed anything.

It’s great to receive your good news stories, please keep them coming.

We found this image of a shop front in Manchester. Doesnt it showcase our northern grit and positivity? Have you seen any images

COVID-19 SUPPORT AREA ON OUR WEBSITE

of hope in your community?

Should you wish to contribute, especially with any good news please email Rhi r.jones@rcaol.org.uk Best wishes, Klare and Rhi xx

Please head to our dedicated webpage for updated resources and support- https:// www.alpsit.org.uk/ coronavirus-support

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

Arbor Education and Lewis Dinsdale from English Martyrs Catholic Primary School are hosting a webinar on the 13th May at 2pm, to explore how a cloud-based MIS can help schools operate more effectively and efficiently, both on a day to day basis and in the current exceptional circumstances.

If you are interested in joining the session please email David Norton from Arbor (david.norton@arbor-education.com) to receive joining instructions.

More information on this offer can be found on our website; https://www.alpsit.org.uk/funding/special-funding-discounts/arboreducation

https://alpsit.org.uk/solutionsatellites/solution-satellites/ solution-satellites-science-bug Our great deal with Science Bug will go ahead as normal. They are offering their complete science curriculum resource (Whole school) free to 15 of our schools.

Training is set to take place in June, accessible from home, with teaching to start in September.

There is opportunity to secure a 20% group discount of the software if more than 5 ALPSIT schools sign up.

Please go to our website for more and sign up via this form:

If your school is interested in securing this discount please fill out this short form and Klare will be in touch with how to accesses it if we surpass the 5 school quota.

https://forms.gle/ VUGqNNasNxA83sm89

https://forms.gle/p4HpdGANBgekVw db7

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Updates SIP SERVICE Please let us know whether you will continue with the ALPSIT SIP service if you already have one and if you would like to sign up for one if you do not.

You can find more information on our SIP service here - https:// www.alpsit.org.uk/sip If you wish to sign up please email Klare before the 05/05/20 k.rufo@rcaol.org.uk Remember your SIP is availabe to support you during this time they are able to assist with your school improvement development, evaluation plan and framework.

FACEBOOK - SUBJECT LEAD GROUPS https://www.facebook.com/pg/alpsitnews1/groups/? ref=page_internal Do you have an amazing subject leader? Would they like to support ALPSIT in providing content

Children’s Conferences Our children’s conferences are on hold for the time being. We

and discussions for our brand new subject specific

hope the extra time will

online

help us to create an

networks.

This could be a particularly good time to get involved as people are researching and implementing the use of great platforms, not to

unforgettable event available to as many schools as possible.

mention sharing them online.

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

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Courses/CPD Available

As part of Best Practice’s BIG THANK YOU initiative for school staff they have made two of their modules free to everyone.

The modules are: - Pedagogy and Practice from the Teaching toolkit - Understanding SEND from the SEND toolkit The modules amount to 12 hours of free CPD. Take a look at our dedicated site page for more information, reviews and links to access this great resource. https://alpsit.org.uk/coronavirus-support/best-practice-bpn-s-bigthankyou

Schudio, the school website developers, are always creating courses to support their clients now they’re providing many of their courses free of charge or at a considerably reduced rate.

Support and courses are avilable in school website development, home learning, SEND support and much more. https://www.alpsit.org.uk/coronavirussupport/schudio

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Good News Section We wanted to dedicate a space for good news from our schools. You’ve been doing all kinds of wonderful things from music videos to flower beds and it brightens our days, thank you - https://www.alpsit.org.uk/coronavirus-support/our-schools Keep it coming and please send us your good news stories, we want to share them amongst our community! r.jones@rcaol.org.uk The staff from Christ the King in Liverpool, led by Miss Douglas, have created a wonderful message of hope. Take a look at their ‘Storms dont last forever’ video via this link - https://youtu.be/jZAjiFSvK98

Singing is something we know all our schools will be missing so we have compiled some singing resources for you to get involved with. https://www.alpsit.org.uk/coronavirus-support/singingresources

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