April 2020

APRIL 2020

ALPSIT NEWSLETTER Improving Our Schools Together

WELCOME TO OUR WEEKLY UPDATES NEWSLETTER We are here for you.

Firstly, we wanted to send all our schools so much love and gratitude during this harrowing and most peculiar of times.

Our utmost respect goes out to you all. Your tenacity and commitment to the children is beyond commendable. Thank you.

During the lock-down period we will be sending weekly newsletters informing you of any available support and updates within our community.

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

LOOKING FOR SUPPORT WITH HOME LEARNING? Please head to our dedicated webpage for more - https:// www.alpsit.org.uk/ coronavirus-support

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

We are currently in talks with Arbor for an ALPSIT member discount.

Considerable savings can be made the more schools that sign up.

Lewis Dinsdale of English Martyrs Litherland is a keen advocate of this platform with very positive things to say.

Please email Klare to express interest - k.rufo@rcaol.org.uk

https://alpsit.org.uk/solutionsatellites/solutionsatellites/solution-satellitesscience-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.

Please take a look at our great ALPSIT personalised offer from Renaissance Learning https://alpsit.org.uk/funding/specialfunding-discounts/accelerated-reader The offer applies to both Accelerated Reader and myOn digital books and had been extended by 5months to include this time of school closures.

As the offer is time sensitive make sure to sign up at your earliest convenience.

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

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/p4HpdGANBgekVw db7

Please go to our website for more and sign up via this form: https://forms.gle/VUGqNNasNxA8 3sm89

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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 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 and discussions for our brand new subject specific online networks.

This could be a particularly good time to get

Social Media Platforms Make sure you are following us across all our social media platforms. We also love to see what all our schools are doing.

Twitter - @alpsitnews Instagram - @alpsit

involved as people are researching and implementing the use of great platforms, not to

Facebook - alpsitnews1

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 Available

NASENCO Course at Hope University Liverpool Hope University have confirmed our group discount rates for another year of the NANSENCO course.

An evaluation of module one can be found on our website with very positive outcomes.

A new cohort will begin in September 2020 with discounts of upto 40% if we can get enough numbers. To sign up please fill out this form - https://forms.gle/8MRzacnsufhox83t9 Next years dates are yet to be confirmed but details remain the same. https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/hope-university-partnership/ nasenco

NPQ’s NPQ’s remain free to all ALPSIT schools.

Autumn 2020 entry is now open until the end of July for September start. Further information and updates regarding these courses can be found on our site https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/npq/autumn-19-and-spring-20course-update For more information on the courses please go to https://www.bestpracticenet.co.uk/courses page 04

Good News Section We wanted to dedicate a space for good news. We have loved keeping up to date with all our hub and support schools and have included some of their wonderful pictures below. Thank you all.

Keep it coming and please send us your good news stories, we want to share them amongst our community! r.jones@rcaol.org.uk

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