SIB – Issue 400 – 26 March 2009
All Items within the SIB are colour coded as follows:
RED – For Action
GREEN – New course information
BLUE – For Information
PINK – Courses previously advertised
***NEW PUBLICATIONS***
All Schools – All Headteachers - For information
UniServity User Event at Bridgewood Manor Hotel - 28 April 2009
This all day event explores how the Uniservity Learning Platform is being used to support
learners and inspirational ideas for future practice.
Please access the link below for further information:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/schoolforums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2382
Please go to www.uniservity.com/user-events for details of the agenda and registration
form.
All Schools (with NQTs) - Headteachers, Induction Tutors and Newly Qualified
Teachers - For Information/Action
Spring Term Deadline for Returning Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) Assessment
Reports
Please note that the Spring Term Deadline for Returning Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT)
Assessment Reports is 27 March 2009. For most NQTs, who commenced full time induction
in September 2008, this means their 2nd assessment report is due shortly. Completed,
signed and dated assessment reports should be returned FAO: Caroll Williams or Alan
Stone, Children & Adults, Advisers Section, Gun Wharf Level 4, Dock Road, Chatham,
Kent, ME4 4TR or emailed to nqts@medway.gov.uk.
Copies of the recently revised and updated assessment forms can be found on the
Council's website at:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/38546/46931.htm
or on the Schools Forum site at:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/schoolforums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2040
All Schools – All Headteachers and Bursars - For Information
Schools Forum meeting – 12 February 2009
The minutes of the Schools Forum meeting on 12 February can be accessed via the
following link:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/schoolforums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=257
All Infant, Junior and Primary schools – All Headteachers and OM2012 Coordinators
– For Information
Get Set – London 2012
Get Set is London 2012's national education programme aimed at involving children and
young people in the excitement and inspiration of the Games.
Medway Council is urging all Medway schools to register for Get Set to supplement the local
curriculum resources provided as part of Our Medway 2012 with a wealth of national
Olympic and Paralympic education resources that fit neatly with the OM 2012 project areas.
In order for the Our Medway 2012 programme to achieve its ambition of getting national
recognition from the London 2012 organisers, we need to demonstrate that Medway
schools are also signed up to the Get Set programme. Basic Get Set registration is
extremely quick, so please take the time to register at
http://getset.london2012.com/en/join-us/register
For more information and to get an idea of the resources available, visit the get set website
at http://getset.london2012.com/en/home
Get Set is also just launching a Get Set Network for school pupils across the country to sign
up to. You can read more about this in the Join Us section of the website.
***COURSE ADVERT***
All Infant and Primary Schools - All teachers - For Information
Leading Teacher Workshop
Encouraging writing in the Early Years
11 May 2009: 9am - 3pm
18 May 2009: 1 - 3pm (follow up)
Medway's leading teachers are offering another workshop during term 5 'Encouraging
writing in the Early Years'. In this workshop teachers will see 'writing and mark making' in
action in an integrated foundation stage setting and the responses of the children. The
workshop will consist of a whole day session and then a follow up half day (which will be
supply funded).
There will be 5 places available initially to schools who have not yet taken up the offer of
workshops. If however others are interested they can apply to be put on the reserve list.
Further details of this workshop can be found at:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/cpd/39105/83225/89550.htm
The closing date for applications is Friday 1 May 2009.
***COURSE ADVERT***
All Junior and Primary Schools – All Years 3, 4 & 5 Teachers - For Information
French for Years 3, 4 & 5 Teachers - Basic or Intermediate level - re-visit
The first session of the Basic French for Y6 teachers will include a session suitable for those
Year 3 and Year 4 teachers with little or no previous knowledge of French who did not
attend the original training sessions held in 2006 and 2007. It may also be of interest to
Year 5 teachers with little or no previous knowledge of French wishing to understand the
previous learning of their pupils. Full details can be found via the following link:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/cpd/39105/40797/89407.htm
The first session of the Intermediate French for Year 6 teachers will include a session
suitable for those Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 teachers with French GCSE, O-level or similar
- however rusty! - who did not attend the original training sessions held in 2006, 2007 and
2008. Full details can be found via the following link:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/cpd/39105/40797/89417.htm
To book place(s) on any of the Primary Languages training please contact Caroll Williams
tel: 01634 338545 or email: primlang@medway.gov.uk.
***COURSE ADVERT***
All Junior and Primary Schools – All Years 6 Teachers - For Information
French for Year 6 Teachers - Basic or Intermediate level
Year 6 teachers with little or no previous knowledge of French should attend the Basic
course (3 sessions), full details of which can be found via the following link:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/cpd/39105/40797/89396.htm
Year 6 teachers with French GCSE, O-level or similar - however rusty! - should attend the
Intermediate course (2 sessions), full details of which can be found via the following link:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/cpd/39105/40797/89404.htm
To book place(s) on any of the Primary Languages training please contact Caroll Williams
tel: 01634 338545 or email: primlang@medway.gov.uk.
***COURSE CANCELLATION***
All Infant, Junior and Primary Schools – All Headteachers and ICT Coordinators
ICT Level training for Primary Schools - 24 April and 23 June 2009
Please note that this course is cancelled. It will be re-scheduled for September 2009.
Please check SIB and ICT course table on Medway website for future dates.
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/cpd/39105/39184.htm
***COURSE ADVERT***
All Schools – All Assistant Headteachers (Inclusion Managers), Deputy Headteachers,
Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs), Inclusion Managers, Pastoral Heads,
Citizenship teachers, Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) teachers - For
Information
Training on Gypsy Roma Travellers - 31 March 2009
Please access the link below for information and booking details for the above course.
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/cpd/39105/62795/88241.htm
**** COURSE ADVERT ****
REMINDER
All Infant, Junior and Primary Schools – Key Stage 1 and 2 teachers – For Information
Moderating Workshops
The Medway Primary Key Skills Team are running a range of Moderating workshops in
March 2009. You may find these useful to complement the Assessment & APP course,
which teachers have attended this year. These workshops are an opportunity for teachers to
discuss the level judgements they are making about children in their own class and
moderate each other’s judgements.
Moderating reading at Key Stage 2 - a workshop
Monday 30 March 2009 (2pm - 4pm)
Venue: Oaklands Junior School
If you wish to book a place(s) on this course, please complete the reply slip which can be
accessed on the Medway website via the links below:
English: http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/cpd/39105/39188.htm
All Schools – All Staff – For Information
Prospects 477
Please access Prospects 477 by using the link below:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/schoolforums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2370
All Schools – All Staff – For Information
*****Previous SIB bulletins*****
for 2009:
for 2008.
for 2007:
for 2006:
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/sib/85537/85812.htm
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolinfo/sib/72058/72061.htm
http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/learning/schoolimprov/57769/57495.htm
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