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Archdiocese of Liverpool Secondary School Improvement Trust

Archdiocese of Liverpool Secondary School Improvement Trust Weekly Update Dear Colleagues, Please find below a list of Archdiocesan events taking place in the coming weeks.

Dates for all events can be found on our website https://www.alssit.co.uk/ If you have any queries please contact Vikki Borlase at v.borlase@rcaolp.co.uk Next Week’s Events Tue 29 Jan 2019

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15:30 - 17:00 Central NQT Programme - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/fgrbh St Cuthbert's Catholic High School, Berrys La, St Helens, St Helens WA9 3HE 15:30 - 17:00 West NQT Programme meeting - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/e48or St John Bosco Arts College, Liverpool L11 2DT 16:00 - 17:00 Government & Politics AQA Meeting Carmel College, Prescot Rd, Saint Helens WA10 3AG Wed 30 Jan 2019 14:00 - 16:30 HoD P.E. Meeting– Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/bwos8 St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Rookery Avenue, Wigan WN4 9PF 15.45 - 17.00 Eduqas Art and Design Twilight Meeting Maricourt High School, Hall Lane, Liverpool L31 3DZ

16:00 - 17:00 Government & Politics Pearson Meeting Cardinal Heenan High School, Honey's Green Ln, Liverpool L12 9HZ Thu 31 Jan 2019 08:00 - 10:00 Curriculum Meeting - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/c41x8 Maricourt Catholic High School, 63 Hall Ln, Maghull, Liverpool L31 3DZ 13:15 - 16:00 HoD Science Meeting - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/du5q2 St Peter’s Catholic High School, Howards Lane, Orrell, Wigan WN5 8NU

Upcoming Archdiocesan Events Mon 4 Feb 2019 13:15 - 15:15 SENCO Meeting - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/cae8h

De La Salle School, 5 Mill Brow, Eccleston, Saint Helens WA10 4QT Tue 5 Feb 2019 08:00 - 10:00 Post 16 Meeting - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/fmu38 Holy Family Catholic High School, Virgin's Ln, Thornton, Liverpool L23 4UL 13:15 - 16:00 HoD Computer Science Meeting - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/g0d3a St John Bosco Arts College, Storrington Ave, Liverpool L11 9AT 15:30 - 17:00 Central RQT Programme - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/hrfg8 Hope Academy, Newton-le-Willows WA12 0AE 15:30 - 17:00 West RQT Programme meeting - Please book here http://w.pfrms.co/8igeo St John Bosco Arts College, Liverpool L11 2DT

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Archdiocese of Liverpool Secondary School Improvement Trust Events, External Courses and Grant Opportunities Alternatives to GCSE Exam Board Meetings We have liaised with exam boards to hold a series of ‘Alternatives to GCSE’ meetings.

Pearson, Eduqas and OCR have all been invited to present on qualifications as noted below and links have now been added to allow you to book your place.

Alternative to GCSE Support Meetings:

Eduqas Constructing the Built Environment (New for 2018) Level 1/2

Construction/Built Environment & Engineering 27th February at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic College Please book here http:// w.pfrms.co/a4m8o

Sports Related 6th March at Holy Cross Catholic High School - Please book here http:// w.pfrms.co/bxvyl

Pearson

BTEC First Award Engineering Design Construction & the Built Award/Certificate Level Environment - Revised 1/2

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Designing the Built Environment Level 1/2

OCR

BTEC Engineering

Engineering manufacture Award/Certificate Level 1/2 Principles in Engineering & Engineering Business Award/Certificate Level 1/2

Engineering Level 1/2

Systems Control in Engineering Award/ Certificate Level 1/2 Sport and Coaching Principles (New for 2018) Level 1/2

BTEC First Award Sport Revised

Sport Science Award/ Certificate Level 1/2

BTEC Sport, Activity & Fitness

Sport Studies Award/ Certificate Level 1/2

Health & Social Care 20th March at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic College Please book here http:// w.pfrms.co/86xpd

Health & Social Care BTEC Health & Social Care Award/Certificate Level 1/2

Enterprise & Retail 12th March at Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School - Please book here http:// w.pfrms.co/hdooy

Retail Business Level 1/2

BTEC Enterprise

Enterprise & Marketing Certificate Level 1/2

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Reminder: Pupil Premium Review Training 7th February 2019 Pupil Premium Review training will take place at 8.30am-10.30am on 7th February at St John Bosco Arts College, Storrington Ave, Liverpool L11 9AT. The session will be led by Phil Mooney and will enable participants to join future review teams . Please note that this is a repeat of training that was delivered before Christmas. This opportunity of reviewing the work of other schools has proved to be invaluable to the fourteen reviewers already trained. This training must be completed if you want to be part of a review team. If you want to participate in this training opportunity please book here http://w.pfrms.co/hqys6

Pupil Premium Coordinators Training 1st March This training will focus upon reviewing school’s Pupil Premium Action Plans in triads and take place 8.30am to 10.30am at St Peter’s Catholic High School in Wigan. Please use this link to book your place http://w.pfrms.co/6esq4

Newsletter—Edition 1 Winter 2015 Student Media Competition on 25th June 2019 at Hope University Chapel We are very pleased to announce that our Student Media Competition will again take place in the Chapel at Hope University. This is a wonderful venue and we look forward to welcoming students and teachers on 25th June.

This year’s theme is ‘Sustainability; 'We must care for the Earth so that it may continue as God willed’. The importance of caring for all creation has been highlighted by Pope Francis and he has appealed to every person living on our planet to take care of our common home.

Please use this link http://w.pfrms.co/i0oip to register that your school would like to take part by 22nd February 2019. We will then contact schools in March with further information.

East Cluster Public Speaking Competition - New Date Please note that the East Cluster Public Speaking Competition will now take place on 11th July at St John Rigby Sixth Form College. To register to take part, please use this link http://w.pfrms.co/4p4xv The links for West and Central Clusters are below: West Cluster Competition on 3rd July 2019 http://w.pfrms.co/a4344 Central Cluster Competition on 10th July 2019 http://w.pfrms.co/fj13y

Advanced Teachers Handball Course St Bede's have advised that they will be running an Advanced Teachers Handball Course. The course will be allocated on a first come first serve basis with a maximum of 21 candidates. Booking to be completed online and can be accessed via this link https://englandhandball.azolve.com/workbench/public/events? ref=CA3BA8A7D75EB73FD22DD9CB47F5CAE04DBECAE3 The course is priced at £28 and will take place on Wednesday 6th March at St Bede's C.H.S Ormskirk. 1:30pm 5:30pm.

Please note, this course is for candidates who have completed the Introduction to Teaching Handball Course.

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Reminder: Girls into Physics (Drayson Project) The deadline to sign up to be involved in the Drayson Project has been extended until Friday 1st February. Please register via this link http://w.pfrms.co/fh4t5 This is an exciting programme with a key focus of getting more girls into Physics. Funding has been promised by the DfE and interested schools will be contacted as soon as this is confirmed, with a start date after Easter.

Action Tutoring Action Tutoring is a national education charity, focused on reducing the social mobility gap at SATs and GCSE level. We do this by delivering high-quality tutoring, working in partnership with schools, to provide disadvantaged Year 6 and KS4 pupils with a volunteer tutor to support them in either maths or English.

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We have proven impact and, as a charity, offer our programme at a very reasonable rate compared to private tutoring, to ensure the benefits of this type of support can reach those who need it most – our core mission.

Key aspects of our offer include: * Targeting Year 11 and Year 6 pupils at risk of leaving school without a achieving nation standards at GCSE or in SATs. * Support for between 10 to 20 pupils, at a time that suits your school. * Tuition on a 1:1 or 1:2 basis provided by high-quality, trained volunteer tutors. DBS checks are provided by Action Tutoring for all volunteers. * Structured tutoring resources tailored to the curriculum. Schools can input into the resource provision. * Heavily subsidised delivery by grants and donations. We keep costs as low as possible for schools. * A dedicated member of Action Tutoring staff to support the delivery of the programme, engaging pupils and supervising and managing volunteers. * Regular impact reporting and evaluation of the programme. An external evaluation found pupils who attended at least seven sessions with us gained half a grade of progress.

Last year we supported over 2,000 secondary and primary school pupils, who were eligible for Pupil Premium funding and at risk of not passing their maths or English SATs or GCSEs, with tuition. Despite these barriers they were able to match the national GCSE pass rate for secondary school pupils, of 69%, after two terms of tutoring sessions.

At primary level we helped 72% of the pupils supported to achieve Expected Standard in their SATs; just 10% were meeting this crucial benchmark when we started working with them.

After some fantastic results we are currently looking to expand to more schools in Liverpool. We have a large number of volunteers who are interested in supporting If you would like further information please contact Adam Geach at adam@actiontutoring.org.uk

Update: AQA Science Research with Oxford University Schools who have expressed an interest in the AQA research which is being undertaken in conjunction with Oxford University, and is funded by the Wellcome Trust, will be contacted late in April with further information.

The focus of this research will be on improving how we assess practical science skills, with the aim of also producing ‘tests worth teaching to’, i.e. assessments and associated support that will aid in the teaching and learning of practical science skills and knowledge, and ‘how science works’.

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