Devasted that Luljeta Nuzi has died after a long fight with cancer. An incredible, dynamic, fierce woman whose optimism and passion for equality for all, in education, as women, as members of refugee and global majority communities will remain an inspiration for those who met her. I first met Luljeta in 2009 when she came […]
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Positive Messengers and Refugee Week
Refugee Week and the Positive Messengers campaign have teamed up to highlight their resources promoting anti-hate speech.
Below are the main actions Positive Messengers are taking, along with project partners such as the British Council and Hope Not Hate.
Would you be happy to do any of the below actions?
1) Share the British Council’s Be A Positive Messenger resource & link with their network of 100,000+ schools around the world:
We launched with the support of the British Council who have developed a specially-designed “Be A Positive Messenger Homework Challenge” PDF resource with 20 easy for schools in support of Refugee Week 2018.
Support this resource in the following ways & link with this valuable network:
a) Share this resource via Facebook:
http://bit.ly/BCPositiveMessengersFBshare
b) Share this link with your contacts directly (it helps if people download the resource, for us to measure the success of the resource):
https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/classroom-resources/list/be-positive-messenger
… and of course, please download it yourself!
2) Check out Hope Not Hate’s “Difficult Conversations” interactive PPT tool (This is a shareable version of the training you signed up for last December):
“Difficult Conversations” provides techniques for engaging with individuals who are expressing hate speech, by using a combination of empathetic listening and Socratic questioning, proven to be “particularly effective in persuading people to change their thinking.”
Free download at: https://www.beapositivemessenger.eu/
3) Check out our Media Pack (attached) or overall campaign page for further ideas.
We will be re-tweeting and sharing anything you post to our other contacts.
If you have anything activities you would like to share through this network please get in touch asap.
Many thanks!
Philip Harding-Esch & Sara Wickert
“Be A Positive Messenger” campaign in support of #RefugeeWeek2018
www.beapositivemessenger.eu
Family First Nights 2018
Family First Nights 2018
June 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Send your families to the theatre for only £6 a ticket!
23 July – 27 August
Family First Nights is a unique family theatre access programme celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. We want to invite you and your families to be a part of it!
To register as a partner organisation, simply complete this short registration form and we’ll get back to you to with next steps.
We’re holding partner ambassador meeting on 13th June, from 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm at The Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, where you can find out more about the events programme and collect brochures to distribute to your families.
After the meeting attendees can go on to see Motown The Musical at Shaftesbury Theatre afterwards, at a special discounted rate of £15 per ticket (2 tickets per organization)
Register on the Moustrap Website
Any questions?
Contact: Elaine Grant at Mousetrap Theatre Projects
Tel: 020 632 4116
Email: elaine@mousetrap.org.uk
Data protection in supplementary schools
What are you doing to ensure the personal data you hold about staff, volunteers, pupils and parents is safe?
Here are some Data Protection DOs and DONTs – GDPR update to get you started, or to reassure you that you are doing the right thing.
I have spent much time looking to produce advice for community-led supplementary schools and other community organisations with exceedingly limited funds on essential action to take re. the GDPR coming in to force on 25th May. Regrettably, I have not been able to get any free advice or any law firm to provide a simple template for supplementary schools. But for £50 Bates, Wells & Braithwaite will produce a data protection policy for you when you fill in an online form.
You have to do this and you have to get it done by the end of the week so I recommend you go online and use their form if you haven’t already sorted this out.
Want to find out more about how to ensure you are meeting best practice and following the law? Why not book onto our Good Management Course at the end of June 2018.
The purpose of this acclaimed three-day course is to help supplementary schools (teaching core-curriculum, language, faith or a combination of these) to prepare a School Management Pack consisting of
- A Welcome Pack for Parents
- Staff and Volunteer Handbook
- Management Committee Guide
- Safeguarding Policies and Procedures for all
Over the three days of the course you will be provided with template policies and procedures, guidance on how to adapt these to suit your own organisation, opportunity to share experience with other supplementary schools. All schools completing the course and their own school management documents will be eligible for a school visit to assess the quality of their provision. Developed this year, the course has already been well received in Brent, Barnet, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea and Sheffield. It will be running in Ipswich later this year.
We are running the 3-day course at Resource for London for individual bookings, 25, 26 June and 3 July 2018. Special offer – book for all three days and bring a colleague for free! Check our events calendar or get in touch for more information or book here.
Full course for 6-10 schools (10-20 individual participants) – £1,350 (3 days @£450 per day, incl. school visits on course completion for all schools having completed their Good Management pack and seeking to seeking to develop the quality of their provision through the NRCSE Quality Mark scheme. We may need to charge travel expenses.)
Congratulations RBKC supplementary schools!
Azza Supplementary School, Al Amaana School MCWG,
Baraka Community Association, Dalgarno Supplementary School
You have successfully completed 360o quality assurance of your supplementary school. This quality assurance includes:
- governance training and revision of all the school’s policies and procedures to ensure that provision is both safe and effective;
- observational visits of classes in action by a professional supplementary schools’ mentor and conversations with pupils, staff, parents and management committee members;
- a witness report detailing the learning environment, teaching taking place, assessment of the school’s planning, including evaluation and community engagement;
- preparation and presentation of a portfolio of evidence which has been scrutinised by experts in the fields of education and community sector management.
Eight more schools in the Partnership of Supplementary Schools in Kensington & Chelsea are currently working on their portfolios and preparing for Quality Recognition Meetings in June and July.