Dear Colleagues
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HSLWs: The January 2012 Issue of The Link Magazine is out now Click HERE to view. Copies of past magazines can be found below in Staff & Governor Newsletters |
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Links to the following can be found below (click to jump straight there) * Staff & Governors Newsletters * Surrey CC Teaching Assistant News |
Keep abreast of what's going on. Check out: - STAFF NEWS & EVENTS below - NEWS & EVENTS Home Page |
LISTED ON THE PAGES OF THIS WEBSITE ARE MANY HELPFUL LINKS WHICH CAN SUPPORT STAFF, PARENTS AND CHILDREN... ...click on the page headings in the blue box to the right e.g. Support for Parents, Swift & Easy Referral to Specialist Services, or click on the Children/Young People heading in the blue band above. All detail services which can help. |
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Below are some useful links for GOVERNORS - CLICK HERE to go straight there Click here for a list of CONFEDERATION LINK GOVERNORS |
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A warm welcome to your own part of the confederation website! This section is for any adult who works with children and young people in our confederation schools and settings - staff and governors. Here we hope to be able to share information about important events or occasions, pass on other information and enable you to network with your wider Confederation colleagues.
Our Mission: Achieving More Together
Within our 16 schools and 3 Children's Centres we will be looking to provide joint training and development opportunities, cross confederation working/consultation for key groups such as SENCOs, Numeracy and Literacy Co-ordinators, Governors, HSLWs. We will be looking for other ways in which we can achieve more together too.
If you have any suggestions about what we might include, please contact me at Rodborough School, Tel: 01483 411100 or email: info@rodborough.surrey.sch.uk
Andrew Smith
Chair, Godalming Confederation of Schools
News & Events |
Celebration to mark the reopening of The Wharf Nursery School and Children's Centre The Wharf Nursery School and Children's Centre is now fully opened, following a visit from Surrey dignitaries at the end of September. Two mayors, the vice chairman of Surrey County Council and two former headteachers joined an official opening ceremony. Headteacher Mandy Heslop said that the celebration was a lively affair, with lots of old faces turning up to mark the occasion. Previous heads Jennie Waterfall and Mary Terret returned to the school to see the improvements, which were funded by a £2million Sure Start grant. The entire project took a year to complete, during which time the nursery and its outreach centre based themselves on the site of Green Oak school in Franklyn Road, Godalming. Staff and volunteers began moving classrooms back into the town centre site on Woolsack Way back in May. The Head tells us that "Parents and students all really love the new centre, and I've had a lot of lovely comments about it, with people telling me they knew it would be good but they never thought it would be this good...the facilities are so much better (than the old building) and it's quite exciting!" The Wharf Nursery and Children's Centre will continue to exist as a two building centre. The Woolsack Way building in the centre of town will house the nursery school and will be offering an expanding range of children's centre activities as well. The Wharf Children's Centre at The Eashing Building, behind Green Oak School, will continue to offer children's centre activities. The two sites will be working together to ensure that they offer a wide range of activities and services. |
Parenting Puzzle Parent Support Groups
The Parenting Puzzle, a 10 week course for parents & carers, has been running very successfully. We will be running more courses in the future. For more information or if you think you might be interested, have a word with your Home School Link Worker (HSLW) - you can contact them through your school office - or keep an eye on the Confederation website for details. |
Confederation Language Group 2011 was being championed as the Year of Communication. Within Surrey schools we recognise the importance of puils' speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and we have set up a Confederation Language Group, co-ordinated by Mandy Hill, from Surrey's Learning and Language Support team. Hosted by Milford Infants School, the Language Group is intended as a support group, where teachers, SENCOs and TAs can meet to discuss language related issues, share good practice, look at resources and exchange ideas. For further information, please contact Mandy on amanda.hill@surreycc.gov.uk |
How we are meeting the Government’s Extended Services Core offer? A brief update Childcare and/or A Safe Place To Be: Two of the three Children’s Centres and some schools offer childcare facilities on their premises; other childcare facilities are available locally (there is a list on the Confederation website). The two secondary schools offer a wide range of after school sport and other activities. Take a look at their websites. A varied menu of Activities: All schools have widened the range of clubs and activities available before, within and after school. In some, pupils have set up and now run their own clubs. Music, sports, arts & crafts, dance, drama, language and volunteering are the main examples of activities taking place. Parenting Support is provided mainly by the HSLWs and Children's Centre Outreach Workers in a huge range of examples and circumstances. HSLWs see pupils, parents and carers at school, make individual home visits , run groups and courses and work with the County’s other services and with the voluntary sector as needed. The Children’s Centre Outreach workers work similarly with families of the under-5s, backed up by more in-depth provision at their centre. Swift & Easy Access/referral to a wide range of specialist services has been helped by the HSLWs, who work closely with the PCT, CAMHS, Social Services, behaviour support services, speech & language services and others to help provide what some children and young people [desperately] need. The Children’s Centre Outreach Workers work similarly with families of the under 5s, again backed up by provision at their Centre. Wider Community Access is being provided by schools and Children’s Centres where they can e.g. opportunities for using computers with associated ICT training & support, using grounds & facilities, particularly for sport & recreation and opening up other adult education opportunities such as maths and literacy. |
CONFEDERATION HOME/SCHOOL LINK WORKERS (HSLWs) The Confederation appointed 3 HSLWs, to work with families and children where needed, in our schools.
SARAH DUTTON is working with Green Oak, Chandler, Milford Infant and Witley Infant
KAREN SUTTON is working with Godalming Junior, Farncombe Infant, Moss Lane and St Mary’s Infant School, Shackleford.
RACHEL JONES is working with Broadwater School.
In total, there are now 7 HSLWs working across the 16 confederation schools and 3 Children’s Centres: Dani Cole (our lead HSLW) and Debbie Loveland at Loseley Fields, Sue Hanna at St Edmunds and Lea Newbery at Rodborough.
Our HSLWs will help parents coping with challenging children, giving individual parenting guidance and support, with advice on how to develop and maintain positive discipline. They will listen and offer support on problems and issues using counselling skills and give the child with difficulties a forum to talk about concerns in a confidential and non-judgemental environment. They will help families/the child/the school access grants and information. They will make home visits to support families and children. HSLWs are an important part of our drive for swift and easy access to specialist help in Godalming, both to bridge any gaps between schools and parents/carers and to ensure that any support works in a truly joined up way across our families. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR HSLW THROUGH YOUR SCHOOL OFFICE, WHERE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU CONTACT NUMBERS OR ARRANGE FOR THEM TO CALL YOU. |
Click below to link to... Godalming Confederation Staff & Governors' Newsletters: |
Click below to link to link to... Surrey CC's Teaching Assistant News
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Useful Links For Governors |
www.governornet.co.uk The national website for school governors www.surreygovernorsassociation.org.uk Surrey's website for school governors www.northbourne.org.uk in October 2006 N.AGs (Northbourne Action Group) was formed, with a committee of 5 residents from the Northbourne estate, Godalming. Over the next 2 years NAGs grew and moved from strength to strength, reducing antisocial behaviour on the estate by a massive 30% and crime to almost zero. There are now 12 NAGs, mums and dads who give their free time to provide events and activities for the children and the community on the estate. NAGs has won 4 Awards so far and are proud to say that the community spirit and the general appearance of the estate has improved dramatically. |
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