Quality First Training & Consultancy

Do you want your school to lead the way in tackling bullying? Does your school want to improve their pupils’ wellbeing? Sign up to the All Together programme to access training, resources, and a pupil questionnaire to monitor wellbeing and bullying among your pupils

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The programme is FREE and will help evidence safeguarding practices to Ofsted. Funded by and delivered with the support of and

Safeguarding - whole school training and/or briefings - availability for September. Contact Shelley for details - [email protected]

To celebrate their upcoming new physical activity campaign Change4Life and DisneyUk are offering the chance to win a Disney themed 10 Minute Shake Up session for your whole school – led by experts!

Sign up to enter 👇
http://ow.ly/ex3i50uwWmR Deadline: 12pm 24 June.

Death neither obeys the school timetable nor appears on it... it enters the classroom without knocking.

Winston’s Wish have put together a great resource to help schools to prepare...

There is currently no government-led national bereavement policy, leaving teachers feeling ill-equipped to supported bereaved children in their classroom.

We've created free resources for schools available to download here 👉 https://buff.ly/2ZxxIjK

Believing so much in empowerment, we’re delighted to share that the theme of this year’s Anti-Bullying Week will be ‘Change Starts With Us’

We are pleased to announce the theme for 2019 is…'Change Starts With Us'!

After consulting with over 1,000 pupils, we want to empower young people, parents and schools to understand small changes make a big difference.

So we say “Change Starts Here, Change Starts Now, Change Starts With Us” https://bit.ly/2IfGADz

Safeguarding training for all staff and/or Designated Safeguarding Leads in your school - contact Sharon for details of training and 1 hour briefings on key safeguarding issues
[email protected] / 07415705653

Who was your childhood hero...

Sign up to get free resources Childhood Day 2019

New schools needed for our successful Sport England Lottery Funded project!

Following a successful trial by 9 schools across Manchester, Parental Engagement Network is looking for 30 more Manchester schools to benefit from this fantastic funded project for start dates in September 2019, January 2020 and May 2020.

This project is for your school if you want to:

Improve the health and wellbeing of families at your school
Improve children’s fitness levels and their readiness to learn
Develop the skills of parent volunteers to support other families and the school
• Increase parental engagement and support the school’s community cohesion
• Develop a longer term sustainable model to enable families to get more active together in a fun and accessible way
• Enable families to develop positive networks and reduce isolation.

This project is aimed primarily at families from low socio-economic groups (parents whose highest qualification is GCSE, low paid workers or those on benefits). If these families are a minority at your school, we may still able to work with you but we would have to ensure that mainly the target families would access the project.

What does the project involve?

We will train a member of staff and three parent volunteers from each school as Family Activity Champions and enable them to facilitate groups of families to commit to becoming more active together, through:

• A series of fun after-school activity sessions for families of all abilities
• A free equipment pack for families to take home and use together
• A series of home activity sheets, where families are given activities or challenges to do together at home to try and increase their regular daily activity levels
• Prizes and certificates.

PEN will provide

• A briefing for a senior leader and training for the staff supporting the project
• A complete pack of resources, support materials and tip sheets for unlimited use throughout the school
• Ongoing support and visits to the school
• Opportunities to recognise, celebrate and publicise nationally the successful outcomes at your school
• NVQ accreditation for Champions (optional)
• Network opportunities for Active Families Schools
• A reduced membership offer

If your application is successful we will need you to:

• Allocate a member of SLT to have an overview of the project and support its development including enabling recruitment, publicity, monitoring, evaluation and celebration of successful families
• Allocate one or two members of staff to be involved with the project including helping to facilitate the after school sessions at the school, supporting the Family Activity Champions and encouraging families to do the home and community activities.
• Recruit appropriate parents to be Champions and support them in attending the training.
• Identify and encourage targeted families to attend the sessions
• Provide a hall, gym or suitable venue for approx. 10 families to do activities immediately after school one day a week for at least 18 weeks of the year.
• Ensure staff attend the briefings, training and review sessions.
• make some equipment available for sessions. e.g. balls, beanbags and bibs
• In the second year pay a small contribution towards resources (approx. £300) out of the school’s Sports Premium funding

please email [email protected] to have a chat. Alternatively you can just fill in and return the attached application form by 10th May 2019 to [email protected].

Many thanks,

The PEN Team.

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