Members News
School Funding Consultation
Ministers announced the launch of the school funding consultation and set out their intention on the pupil premium, which sets out options for how deprivation is calculated. Please click on the link below for more detail and access to relevant documents.
http://www.education.gov.uk/news/press-notices-new/pupil-premium
Draft DfE Structural Reform Plan (SRP)
Ministers published the Department for Education’s (DfE) key policy commitments for schools and invited the public to hold them to account on delivery.
The draft Structural Reform Plan (SRP) sets out clearly what the Department’s key priorities are for schools. It signals a reduction in restrictive and bureaucratic targets. Ministers are inviting the public to view and challenge all our key priorities for schools over the coming years, including dates for completion. The SRP will be just one of the plans published by all major departments across Whitehall. They are designed to “turn government on its head”, taking power away from Whitehall and putting it into the hands of people and communities.
The SRP outlines dates for cutting bureaucracy in schools, setting up free schools and academies, introducing the new pupil premium and creating new technical colleges for vocational and technical education. DfE will shortly be outlining priorities for children and families policy.
Important Information on the primary curriculum
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Schools and Communities Workshops
The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young Peoples Services C4EO is holding 5 regional knowledge workshops across England from May. Please click here for more details.Cambridge Primary Review - update
The GTCE hosted an invitational seminar for the Cambridge Primary Review on 1 April at which a draft set of post-election policy priorities for primary education were proposed. The priorities have now been firmed up in light of these discussions and are presented in the attached briefing paper (released on 27th April 2010). The briefing paper was sent to party leaders, their education spokespersons and a large number of education organisations and stakeholders, both official and independent.You will note that the preamble to the list of priorities addresses the question that we discussed at the end of the seminar. That is, given that one of the top priorities is to re-empower teachers and re-balance the relationship between government and schools, how do we present the list in a way which doesn't imply that reform remains a matter for government alone?
The Media Literacy Conference
Friday 19th and Saturday 20th November 2010
The Queen Elizabeth 11 Conference Centre, London
The conference will be a major gathering for all teachers, teacher trainers, researchers, policy-makers and media professionals interested in teaching and learning about the media. It is jointly organised by the Media Education Association and the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, London, in partnership with Ofcom.
Bringing together practitioners in all levels of the 3-19 education system with researchers in the fields of education, literacy and media technologies, the Conference will provide a unique opportunity to share information, evidence and ideas about media teaching and learning at different age-levels. There will be an ‘academic’ strand of papers and debate, and a ‘CPD’ strand of workshops, as well as major keynote speakers and discussion panels. An exhibition of resources, hardware and software from educational publishers, media industries and other service providers will provide information on new ways to support learning and teaching about the media.
For further information please click on this link:- www.mlc2010.org.uk
Inside Government Forum:- Transforming the National Curriculum: Creating a Curriculum Fit for the 21st Century
An Inside Government Forum is to be held on Wednesday 26th May 2010, Central London, 09:00 - 16:00
Transforming the National Curriculum: Creating a Curriculum Fit for the 21st Century
Please click here for further details.
PSHE Association 3rd Annual Conference
Thursday 24th June, 2010, London. The PSHE Association third annual conference comes at a pivotal moment in the history of PSHE as the Bill proposing to make PSHE statutory progresses through Parliament.
This conference will provide an excellent opportunity for PSHE coordinators and subject leaders to gain an understanding of the latest developments in PSHE education including the forthcoming curriculum changes and how these will fit into the wider context of education reform.
This event will also equip delegates with strategies to quality assure existing provision and improve rigor in teaching and learning, especially in relation to assessment and progression in PSHE education.
For further information and a booking form please click on the following link:-
http://www.pshe-association.org.uk/Events_detail.aspx?ID=84
NICE - Guidance on School-based interventions to prevent the uptake of smoking among children
We are pleased to announce that NICE’s Public Health Intervention Guidance on School-based interventions to prevent the uptake of smoking among children has been published today, Wednesday 24th February 2010.Please find attached the Quick Reference Guidance (QRG) to this guidance. The attached document, as well as the full guidance and background papers, are available now on the NICE website here: http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH23