Newsletter - Spring term 1 2021

12TH JANUARY 2021

ALPSIT NEWSLETTER Improving Our Schools Together

Hello everyone!

Here we go again on hey?

Hope everyone is managing ok.

Please get in touch if you need any support or just need us to help in anyway.

With a bit of luck everyone has found a new flow with distance learning but if not we can assist you with this.

Sending you all lots of love.

Please contact us with any questions - k.rufo@rcaol.org.uk, r.jones@rcaol.org.uk Best wishes, Klare and Rhi x

ALPSIT WEBSITE

Over the next few weeks we are updating our website including our Covid pages so please let us know if we are missing anything that has been useful to you.

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

EEF have some great resources for supporting home learning. We've added a page to our Covid pages including the article seen here.

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Best practice network have extended their deadlines for application to these programmes due to the challenges you all faced over the Autumn term. Information about the programmes and how to apply can be found below.

The new application deadlines are as follows: 12th January - Leaders Apprenticeships with NPQML/SL (funded by the Apprenticeship Levy) 15th January - NPQML, NPQSL, NPQH and NPQEL (not funded!)

The Leaders Apprenticeship with NPQML/SL routes are currently the only funded option for those applying for NPQs so we are keen to get the word out about this opportunity.

Please note: The apprenticeship route requires additional work as the candidates get an additional qualification More information on NPQ's can be found on our site! https://alpsit.org.uk/cpd/npq page 02

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

Oak Academy have some great resources in their Teachers Hub please take a look on their site HERE

Our Policy Update from Spring Term 1 is now up on the website. Please make use of these very informative documents https://alpsit.org.uk/goodpractice/policy-updates

We hope those of you that have signed up for The National College are enjoying it's great CPD. They've put together a great selection of webinars for January that you can see on the right and on our site.

The National College are keen to sign more ALPSIT schools up and have extended their offer of £300 per school which is incredible considering their offer of whole school team CPD - THE NATIONAL COLLEGE PARTNER PAGE page 03

Updates

Stem Learning are offering some fantastic courses available remotely by the regions Computing Hubs. These courses are being hosted by the Merseyside and Warrington computing hubs.

There is a variety of options, along with a range of times so schools can select what works best for you.

We've included the Primary flyer on the Computing Hub section of our site - https://alpsit.org.uk/national-hubs/computing-hubs/stemlearning

Did you know children can use their computer consoles to access remote learning? Sway have put together a great document detailing how to do this that you can share with your school community. https://sway.office.com/ka0yFbKLeluli0Wf? ref=Twitter&loc=play The DfE have outlined a variety of home learning support for the most disadvantaged (including accessing IT and free data plans) DfE DOCUMENT LINK Are you following us on our social platforms?

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