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 […]
How to achieve the new Quality Mark for Supplementary Education
The YPF Trust Quality Mark for Supplementary Education recognises high standards of leadership and management and supports the development of educational practice. This guide outlines the steps towards the Quality Mark. In obtaining the Quality Mark for Supplementary Education, supplementary education providers demonstrate their commitment to children and young people ensuring continuous development of teaching within an effective and inclusive learning environment.
A Quality Mark demonstrates that a setting has met good practice criteria in the following five key areas:
1. Learning environment
2. Teaching & learning
3. Child participation rights
4. Staffing
5. Leadership & management
Please contact us for more information
Covid-19 Safe Re-opening Webinar – 24th March
If you missed the last one, you can now sign up for our second Covid-19 Safe Re-opening webinar on 24th March!
The Department for Education’s guidance for out-of-school settings who provide activities for children, was updated on 23 February 2021.
To help you prepare for safe re-opening of your supplementary education and other out-of-school activities, NRCSE is running interactive webinars on the updated guidance with opportunity to break into smaller groups to complete risk assessment for your provision.
This webinar is FREE TO NRCSE SUBSCRIBERS! To subscribe please click here.
We offer regular updates and guidance sessions online free-of-charge to our subscribers. Subscription is £50 however, if you do not wish to subscribe, you are welcome to attend our sessions for a small fee of £25. Please share with anyone who might find this webinar useful.
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Feedback from our last Covid-19 Safe Re-opening webinar:
Re-opening and asymptomatic testing for supplementary school staff
We’ve had a lot of people asking about asymptomatic testing for supplementary schools and I will post the DfE’s answer with links below. Please do get in touch with Anne-Marie if you are struggling to access LFTs, she’s very approachable and replies promptly. But of course she can only deliver the guidance that the government provides.
Re: asymptomatic testing for supplementary schools
‘This is something we’ve been discussing with the central testing team within DfE for the past few weeks. For supplementary schools operating off a school site, the best route for now is likely to be community testing programmes. We have produced and shared guidance for LAs to help them provide a more accessible offer for out-of-school settings. However, if staff in supplementary schools are having trouble accessing these programmes, please do feed that back to us so we can try to work through any comms/ logistical issues with the testing team.’
Anne-Marie Mongan | Policy Adviser | Out-of-school Settings, Wraparound, and Integration Unit
More information on finding local community testing centres can be found here https://www.gov.uk/find-covid-19-lateral-flow-test-site
We will be covering how to keep your staff and pupils safe in our Covid19 Safe Re-opening webinars coming up on 10th and 24th March. Book your place here
Updated Out-of-school settings guidance
The Department for Education out-of-school settings guidance has now been updated to provide more information on the position during the national lockdown.
The headlines are:
- For the duration of the national lockdown, out-of-school settings should only offer face-to-face provision for:
- children of critical workers, where it is reasonably necessary to support their parents or carers to work, seek work, attend a medical appointment, or undertake education or training
- vulnerable children and young people
- There is a list available outlining Children of critical workers and vulnerable children who can access schools or educational settings.
- Realistically, we know that the small numbers of children that are eligible to attend settings for face-to-face provision will mean that many out-of-school settings will likely need to move to online provision for the duration of the national lockdown.
- However, providers who offer face-to-face provision for the eligible children during the national lockdown should continue to follow the protective measures as outlined in our guidance. These are largely consistent with what you have already been doing, but given that there is likely to be fewer numbers of children in settings if they do choose to open, we have made it permissive for one member of staff to supervise up to two, small consistent groups of children if this is necessary.
The updated guidance documents are available at the usual links here: Protective measures for holiday and after-school clubs, and other out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) & Guidance for parents and carers of children attending out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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