April Newsletter

April 2019

ALPSIT NEWSLETTER APRIL 2019

Deputy Mitchell leading Y5 training on Global Blogging

Global Blogging Did you know that over 50 ALPSIT teachers and almost 1500 year 5 children are involved with our Global Blogging project? It has been such an exciting time for all the schools involved and the children have had literally thousands and thousands of visits to their blogs and comments and retweets from lots of exciting famous people and authors! We are still looking for people to comment and get involved. https://alpsit.org.uk/solutionsatellites/project-4-clusterblogging/getting-onvolvedwith-our-blogs

If you missed out on the global blogging project or want to see how you can carry on please visit our website to see your options https://alpsit.org.uk/solution-satellites/project-4cluster-blogging

ALPSIT Improving our Schools together

CPD and Training Available

NEW Savings this Month Don’t forget we are adding discounts to the funding section of the website all the time.

This part of the site is password protected.

Please get in touch to be allocated the password.

https://alpsit.org.uk/fund ing/special-fundingdiscounts CPOMS We have secured 10% off CPOMS with April and May free if you sign up now. https://alpsit.org.uk/fun ding/special-fundingdiscounts/cpoms The School Spider School spider are offering 10% off for all schools new to this platform. We also have an amazing pilot offer for 8 schools to receive this product for 50% off. https://alpsit.org.uk/fun ding/special-fundingdiscounts/school-spider The School Bus The school bus offer of £300 flat fee has been extended and is available to all trust schools. email james.outram@hub4lead ers.co.uk

The new Ofsted Framework 2019 24th or 27th June 9 -4pm at LACE There are some places left on this CPD This one-day session will be held at LACE to support Headteachers and SLT to understand the new Ofsted Framework. Places are £50pp.

Follow the link below to book your place https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/npq/o fsted-framework-update ADDITIONAL DATES available SEF Update Training for SLT. 26th June 2019 9-4pm at LACE Due to popular demand we have added an additional day for this training This one-day session will be held to support Headteachers and their senior leadership teams to review their SEF inline with the new Ofsted Framework. Places are £50 per person https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/sefupdate-training ALPSIT Conference Friday 27th September 2019 Tickets are now available for our ALPSIT Annual Conference. There is one free ticket per school for the headteacher (or SLT if unable to attend). Please book your free ticket by 24th May as spare tickets will go on sale for schools who would like to bring an additional colleague. https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/alpsitannual-conference

Ofsted Framework Update Training for Governors 24th and 25th June 5-7pm.

This 2-hour session will support governors to understand some of the key changes that are being made in the new Ofsted Framework.

Tickets are £25pp and can be booked here. https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/npq/o fsted-framework-update ASP 2019 Training for Governors. 12th or 13th Nov 5-7pm at LACE This 2-hour session will be held to support Governors to get to grips with ASP. Places are £25 per person. And can be booked by following the link below. https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/idsrtraining/asp-training-2019 RefreshED Conference tickets.

With our amazing partnership with Angel Solutions we are proud to offer you an ALPSIT saving on their fab Conference on 24th May. https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/special -offers-conference/refreshed Dr Ioan Rees Webinar after the success of our first webinar with Dr Rees which you can listen to here https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/npq/d r-ioan-rees-webinar we are please to announce our second on Wed 15th May 4pm.

Sign up here. https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/webin ar-with-dr-ioan-rees Something missing?

Is there particular training you would like to see developed? Something additional your staff would benefit from? For more information regarding these opportunities or any additional you would like to see developed then please do not hesitate to get in touch k.rufo@rcaol.co.uk

Solution Satellite Updates

Go Bubble Gobubble is a free online platform similar to Facebook but secure for children. This platform is from the makers of Ecadets

Century Tech

Join here: https://www.bubble.sch ool/public/index

We have one place left to get this fantastic AI system for your school with 40% off the usual price. Please get in touch to find out more. https://alpsit.org.uk/solu tion-satellites/project10-century-tech-pilot

Parent Apps We stillhave space for 2 schools on the parents apps project.

Applications for this pilot will close on the 1st May https://alpsit.org.uk/s olutionsatellites/project-5parentapps

Solution Satellite 1: Diminishing the differences

Steam School You can still get a hold of steam school for the reduced price of ÂŁ295.

This is half the price of the usual cost.

EYFS Project NEW! We have additional spaces on our EYFS project. If you missed out on the first one get in touch to find out how you could get involved with cohort 2!

Balance Project There are 6 ALPSIT schools involved in this pilot. We still have places available for 2 schools. Get in touch for more information. https://alpsit.org.uk/s olutionsatellites/balancehubs

https://alpsit.org.uk/sol utionsatellites/project-7steam-school

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NEW Solution Satellite Projects Project 11: Belouga – Connecting the world https://alpsit.org.uk/solution-satellites/project-11-belougaconnecting-the-world

Over the next Term we are looking for 20 teachers to participate in a pilot project with Belouga. We are looking to see what Global CPD virtual learning opportunities are available. This opportunity is free to your school and requires approx. 1 hour per week of a member of staffs’ time to participating in online conferences, workshops and google hang out talks. Follow the above link to see how your school can get involved.

What

When

Who / Additional information nd

Initial Google hang out call to learn more about Belouga Belouga Crash Course

Thurs 2 May 3.30 – 4.30pm Between 2nd May – 17th May. 1 hour

Curiosity/Teacher Voice

10th June. 3.304.30pm

Content Creation

10th June 1st July – Approx. 1 hour per week.

Ecosystem Creation

4th July – time tbc

All 20 educators involved 1-hour google hang out call to walk through the full Belouga program, value of the program and goals of educators involved.

This is a 40-minute online course that staff participating are required to complete in this two-week window. This will provide each educator with the fundamentals of global content and education. This is hosted within the Belouga platform as a course from two global experts.

All 20 educators involved in a 1-hour Skype call to be hosted by Belouga to provide a professional learning opportunity on the curiosity-based learning methodology. This will relate directly to how teachers can share their work and be positioned as global educators.

All 20 educators participating in the cohort will now take the skill sets they learned and create their own courses within Belouga.

These courses (referred to as series in Belouga) should focus on a teacher’s current classroom lessons and needs to be activated in the Belouga format to be shared with the world. The Belouga team will provide 1:1 feedback for each educator participating in the cohort, along with best practices for creating global content.

Belouga to bring in specific global organizations and experts on a call with cohort educators with goal of bringing the world into the classroom and taking note on how these organizations and experts are getting their own work into the classroom. Participating educators will then be guided on series in Belouga that they can utilize in their own classroom relating to their subject matter for global education and collaboration. The global organization call will be 1-hour (30-minute intro, 30 min conversation/Q&A) and may be broken into numerous categories based on participating groups interests. Belouga will then work internally to provide participating educators with a roadmap of resources and content relating to their own goals.

NEW Solution Satellite Projects

Solution Satellite 12: Chester Zoo Curriculum Project https://alpsit.org.uk/solution-satellites/project-12-chester-zoo-curriculum-project

Whole school CPD/Training. 13 sessions over the year Are you interested in: Developing a coherent curriculum around conservation to include all NC areas Developing a ‘knowledge rich’ and ‘humanity rich’ curriculum Exploring dilemma led learning approaches in your school Working with leaders to develop a curriculum fit for 2019 and beyond completely Ofsted ready Working directly with Chester zoo.

This programme written and delivered by Ignite teaching school, working in partnership with us means we can have reduced costs for an ALPSIT cohort. This may well be the solution for your school. We have negotiated a great deal with them which provides your school with specific sessions for Senior leaders, KS2 teachers, KS1 teachers, EYFS leaders and teachers, English leads , Geography leads, History leads, Music leads and art and design leads.

This programme will start in September 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Solution Satellite 13: School Spider Pilot https://alpsit.org.uk/solution-satellites/project-13-spider-school Would you like a new website and parent communication system including parents evening bookings and consent forms? School Spider may be the solution you are looking for.

We are excited to be able to offer 8 schools the opportunity to explore school spider for one year with 50% off the usual cost of £1200.

If you are interested in finding out more about these projects, please follow the link above. For any additional questions please contact k.rufo@rcaol.co.uk to discuss.

In other news….

ALPSIT SIP SERVICE If you wish to update me on any of the following changes could you, please let me know by the end of April.

1 - If you currently have an ALPSIT Sip and do not require one from September 2019 2 - If you have any concerns/feedback or any changes required to your ALPSIT Sip service can you please get in touch 3 - If you do not have an ALPSIT Sip but would like one could you please let me know before the end of April.

MISSED OUT ON THE YEAR 5 GLOBAL BLOGGING PROJECT? If you missed out on this project and still want to get involved, we are looking for new participants from September 2019. If you are interested, please get in touch.

MISSED OUT ON THE PUPIL PREMIUM CHAMPION PROJECT? If you missed out on this project and still want to get involved, we are interested in running a cohort 3 in September 2019. If you are interested, please get in touch.

GOT SOMETHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE? Replicating the successful “speed dating - ten-minute tables” model as we used at last year’s ALPSIT launch, I would be keen to hear from any school that has a good piece of practice to share with other schools. It doesn’t have to be the headteacher leading the table, in fact we would prefer to hear it from the staff that lead the work. This could be curriculum, out of school hours, pastoral or indeed anything that has made an impact in your school. Please get in touch to discuss.