Weekly Flyer 11 Sep 2020

Archdiocese of Liverpool Secondary School Improvement Trust

Archdiocese of Liverpool Secondary School Improvement Trust Weekly Flyer: 11th September 2020 Dear Colleagues, Please find below details for upcoming events and other information you may find useful.

If you have any queries please contact Vikki Borlase at v.borlase@rcaolp.co.uk Partnership Director, Paul Greenall, can be contacted at p.greenall@rcaol.co.uk Our website can be accessed here www.alssit.co.uk

Newsletter—Edition 1 Winter 2015 Next Week’s Meetings Tue 15 Sep 2020 09:30 - 11:30 East Headteacher Meeting Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/c7q2x Wed 16 Sep 2020 Virtual NPQML Wrightington Group Day 2 (Spring 2020) 09:30 - 11:30 Central Headteacher Meeting Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/dfsg8 Thu 17 Sep 2020 11:00 - 12.30 West Headteacher Meeting Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/6ej3a Fri 18 Sep 2020 08:00 - 10:00 Curriculum Meeting & Update on Consultation for 2021 Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/9ng5x

Upcoming Meetings Mon 21 Sep 2020 09:30 - 11:30 East Cluster CPD Leads Meeting Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/e0syv Tue 22 Sep 2020 09:30 - 11:30 Trust Board Meeting Wed 23 Sep 2020 NPQSL St John Bosco Group Day 2 (Spring 2020) 08:00 - 10:00 Central CPD Leads Meeting Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/g3zeh 08.00 – 10.00 Reading Working Party Meeting 13:30 - 16:00 Geography HoD Meeting Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/bn8yc

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Registering for Online Zoom Sessions As all our autumn term meetings have moved to virtual Zoom sessions, it is particularly important that all colleagues register to attend or send apologies using our online booking forms. This will ensure that colleagues receive the correct Zoom link to join each session and will allow us to quickly identify them when they join using their school's generic Zoom account .

If they do not register, then the meeting may be delayed as we will need to identify each colleague to accurately record the minutes and in the case of HoD meetings, to allocate them to the correct exam board ‘break out’ session.

The First 100 Days for All Educators with Phil Denton, Mickey Mellon & Drew Povey Newsletter—Edition 1 Winter 2015 Date: 14 September 2020, 4pm Your first 100 days as a new teacher, middle leader, senior leader or headteacher are the most important days. They set the course for your tenure in a new role or even your direction for the new school year. Hear from Phil Denton who has researched this key period for over 2 years with leading football managers, educators and leaders from the business world.

A successful first 100 days is not an accident. It is consistently due to a series of factors that can be learnt and utilised to give you the best chance of success. We hope that this session will inform, engage and offer you the chance to ask questions.

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Receive practical advice and hear real-life examples on how to give yourself the best chance of success in the first 100 days, from leaders in: • Education – Phil Denton (Headteacher at St Bede’s Catholic High School) • Sport – Mickey Mellon (Dundee United Manager) • Business – Justyn Randall (CEO of Opogo) & Drew Povey (Educating Manchester & Leadership Coach) Engage with an energetic discussion to help you get in the right mind-set for your new leadership role or new school year

Register using the following link: https://community.opogo.com/event/the-first-100-days-foreducators/

Ofsted Webinar 24th September 2020 Ofsted has previously run two webinars for further education and skills providers (August 20 and 27), during which inspectors explained the nature and purpose of interim visits, new provider monitoring visits and safeguarding monitoring visits and, also answered questions.

Although the content of the webinar below will be the same as those held in August, this is a good opportunity for NW FES providers, who were either unable to join the webinars in August or want to listen again, to join NW HMI and ourselves as we go through the details of the visits.

This link will allow you to register for the webinar starting at 14:00 on 24 September 2020 – https:// attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5803410796344208399

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NPQ Application Update from Best Practice Network (BPN) A reminder that the deadline for applications to the NPQ Cohort Autumn 2020 is 16th September, so if you have staff members who might be keen, now is the time for them to apply.

You can direct them here NPQ information to discover which NPQ level would suit them best and to apply. Please remember the following: • • • •

Applicants completing their programme application form will be asked to identify a delivery partner from a drop down list, and then to enter that partner’s ‘partner allocation code’.

Your partner allocation code is: ALPST Your partner name is listed as Archdiocese of Liverpool Primary and Secondary Trust Please also select ‘Fully Funded by Scholarship/Government Funding’ in the Invoicing section.

Online delivery for 2020 Newsletter—Edition Winter During lockdown, we developed an online delivery1model that2015 captured the best elements of our face-to -face events. We have since refined this model to include fully facilitated online webinars, additional tutor support and new study packs. All NPQ face-to-face training events scheduled for 2020 will now be delivered via the online delivery model. Face-to-face delivery may resume in 2021 subject to safety guidelines.

Scholarship funding under review NPQ scholarship funding is currently under review by the DfE . However, we are still accepting applications from candidates expecting a scholarship, contact the NPQ team for more information.

Fund NPQs through the apprenticeship levy NPQML and NPQSL can still be accessed as part of a Leaders Apprenticeship funded by the Apprenticeship Levy. Please note that there are no more places left on the Leaders Apprenticeship for autumn 2020 but we will be accepting applications for a spring start from late September.

Online AQA Hubs AQA Hubs are online this term under the title of Virtual Communities.

Facilitated by AQA subject specialists, these 'local' virtual twilight sessions are an interim replacement for the previous hub network in English, Maths and Science. We would encourage you to book onto your 'local' community session. AQA will be giving the opportunity for participants to use text and audio chat facilities to discuss relevant topics. In each session they will also share any relevant updates and resource developments from AQA and the AQA family.

Sessions are free of charge and can be booked directly by following the links below. Although they are all remote, AQA are trying to group teachers by region for networking purposes. There are two North West ‘groups’; Cheshire/Merseyside and Cumbria/Lancashire/Greater Manchester so please encourage colleagues to book onto a session appropriate to their county.

General English Literature Virtual Community Link - http://bit.ly/EngLitVC General Maths virtual community link - http://bit.ly/MathsVC General Science virtual community link - http://bit.ly/ScienceVC

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University of Liverpool Newsletter is attached.

Newsletter—Edition 1 Winter 2015

Offer of EtonX online courses free of charge Please see attached document for further details.

Early Career Teacher Professional Development Programme (St John Bosco Teaching School) The Department for Education has announced free support for 3,000 early career teachers, outside of the early rollout areas, by way of a one-year offer. They are calling it the “expansion programme”.

St John Bosco Teaching School are working with the DfE and Education Development Trust (EDT) to provide this vital free CPD support to more teachers, through the delivery of a one-year programme starting from autumn 2020. Those who qualified in summer 2020 experienced disruptions to their ITT year, and are going to need the support provided by the Early Career Framework more than ever. Read more in the attached documents and sign up for the Early Career Professional Development Programme.

Vacancies There are staff vacancies at different levels on our website https://www.alssit.co.uk/job-vacancies Please consider sharing with all colleagues, as this is a good way to advertise vacancies across the Trust.

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