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Illness is the largest reason for pupil absence year-on-year and pupil absence due to medical appointments is on the rise.
The sun is setting earlier, the weather is getting colder, wetter, and windier. There are more coughs and sneezes with the threat of (ever-present) viruses. All this
As the sun is shining and your school’s summer vacation is coming soon, take steps to invest in your health and wellbeing.
Did you know that collectively, every country in the world discards a whopping 1.3 BILLION tons of food waste annually? That’s the equivalent of the Great Pyramid of Giza, 20,000 times over. And nearly how much I ate over the Christmas period.
We caught up with three more users of Wandsworth Professional Development Centre to discover why they keep coming back.
Key points that should be taken into consideration to ensure that your facilities are regularly maintained and remain statutorily compliant.
Over the Autumn break Wandsworth City Learning Centre were enthusiastically engaging with Apple’s Community Education Initiative.
Our team of professional advisers work with you to empower professionals, unlocking and renewing talent across your school.
Improving the size and scope of the Financial Management Service, the team have been working with the council’s adult learning department Wandsworth Lifelong Learning.
Wandsworth Learning Resources Service works year-round in partnership with schools to help shape learning across the curriculum.
Empowering schools to think bigger when it comes to individual psychology cases.
Our values-based services are as powerful as they are purposeful.
Do your school values burn brightly from your core, clearly defining what you stand for, how you behave and where you sit in the community? Do they tell the world what makes your school brilliantly different? Tailor them to your unique story, make them real, live them, and they will.
Let’s unlock the transformative potential of differentiated school core values.
In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, effective governance plays a crucial role in ensuring the success and growth of schools.
We caught up with three users of Wandsworth Professional Development Centre to discover why they keep coming back.
SOLO, the schools cleaning contractor, is moving to the use of biodegradable packaging for the cleaning products it uses in our schools.
Maintaining your mental health through these winter months is important in supporting your overall health and sense of wellbeing.
The KCSIE update sets out that schools are to play a much more pivotal role in how their web filtering is setup, monitored and used as a safeguarding tool.
Wandsworth Schools need governors! And Wandsworth Governor Services is rethinking its approach to recruitment in support of our schools.
Do you have procedures for work with contractors? Are you sure they cover all your contractors, every time?Maybe you’ve never had an accident involving a contractor – yet!
The HSE will be carrying out a programme of inspections in primary and secondary schools from October 2023.
At the end of September we uploaded Super School Profiles to the Research & Evaluation Unit (REU) website for all Wandsworth schools buying into Traded Services.
After hearing a presentation by James from West Creative at Wandsworth Council School Business Networking meeting, bursar Grace McLeod was interested in using marketing to help get more parents choosing St Joseph’s.
Author, film maker, museum creator and raconteur Francis Gerard has definitely lived an “adventurous life”. Here he shares his love of books, Chinese culture, the San bushmen of South Africa and sci-fi. Interview by Nicola Baird.
Wandsworth City Learning Centre (CLC) are in the blessed position of being inspired every day by the impact that innovative dedicated educators and thoughtful leaders are making to improve student outcomes.
If your school is buying into the Employee Assistance Programme you can talk to an expert in relation to money worries, debt advice etc.
Human history is full of inventions. It starts back from the Dark Age, where humans first learned how to make fire and then they started to build tools to make their daily tasks easier such as hunting. This pack will spark a discussion in the classroom and encourage your pupils to talk about ‘The greatest inventions that have changed our lives’ and also inspire children to talk about any other items that the inventors may have missed!
The arrival of the topic box in the classroom it is a special day for the children as they get extremely excited and cannot wait to rummage through the contents of the box.
This Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re looking at mental health and school attendance, which is timely what with the publication of guidance on the matter earlier this year from the Department for Education (DfE) and new research from Studybugs.
When a school involves the whole school community in developing a culture of well-being it brings the greatest benefits possible for pupils and staff.
Did we ever believe that a disruptive incident such as a global pandemic would really impact us in our lifetime?
Schools need to be on top of their budgets, but what do you do if staffing costs and pay mismatches eat up hours of staff and governor time?
When Year 6s from St Mary’s Primary school asked for a library where they could relax and enjoy books, Deputy Head Amanda Bishop sought advice from Wandsworth Learning Resources Service. Amanda and librarian J Lythgoe meet to discuss the project.
Budgetary constraints means realising efficiencies in less obvious areas.
Implementing cost-effective strategies to attract and retain teaching talent.
Ensure allocated funds are used in a way that effectively promotes student success.
We have the opportunity to make your school finances go further.
Brief update about the net zero decarbonisation framework to support schools in achieving their decarbonisation goals.
Every school has honest, heartfelt intentions when it comes to attracting new pupils – however very few sit back and acknowledge the headache they cause parents. The decision for a parent or guardian on where to enrol their child is rarely based on location alone – expectations are much more diverse.
Now Wandsworth has its own glittering new global superstar neighbour moving in next door to a number of our Battersea schools.
To ensure a safe working and learning environment in schools and comply with legal obligations, ongoing health and safety training is essential.
March 2022 saw the welcome return of the successful Wandsworth Fabulous Book Award. An event organised each year by Wandsworth School Librarians, with pupils from different secondary schools voting for their favourite book from a shortlist and culminating in an award ceremony at the Wandsworth Professional Development Centre (WPDC).
We’ve all head of ‘work experience placements’ and sometimes they do not always get the best press, but there is no mistaking the important role they play in a young person’s life.
This fantastic pack features all the resources which you could need to raise the awareness among KS2 pupils about online risks, safety and behaviour. It will provide interesting topics for discussions about being online and e-safety.
Occupational Health encourages you to make good lifestyle choices.
Diversity is a reality that can be created by pulling together individuals from a broad spectrum of differences.
Quick guide on what is needed to make schools healthy and safe places for everyone.
Librarian Wanda Gajewski focuses on ways teachers can use objects for effective classroom teaching.
The Research & Evaluation Unit are getting ready for the return of statutory assessments.
Key points that should be taken into consideration to ensure that your facilities are regularly maintained and remain statutorily compliant.
How about encouraging your staff to be more active? Could you introduce an after-school activity for staff to join in like yoga or a walking group?
Reimagining a more resilient, responsive and supportive whole school approach.
Smart processes and procedures that make school life run smoother.
Smart processes and procedures that make school life run smoother.
Smart processes and procedures that make school life run smoother.
Creating a future that enables everyone to work to the best of their ability.
Creating a future that enables everyone to work to the best of their ability.
Creating a future that enables everyone to work to the best of their ability.
Let’s reshape the physical, social, and emotional conditions that support study.
Let’s reshape the physical, social, and emotional conditions that support study.
Let’s reshape the physical, social, and emotional conditions that support study.
Minutes must demonstrate how well a Governing Body discharges its functions, in particular their challenge and strategic support for the school.
What does your ICT network look like and what components make up a schools network?
It’s important to be reminded that preventing and tackling bullying is something we do all year round.
There are many essential pieces of information which staff must know to work safely to protect themselves, colleagues and pupils.
Alderbrook was one of 30 primary schools chosen this year to have their work displayed at the National Gallery. Mara Grkinic, teacher and Creative Arts Lead at the school describes their creative journey.
Mark expands on the ABC of school attendance – Attachment, Belonging and Connection.
Our response to Covid-19 has taught us a lot about what is needed when assessing risk and planning emergency response.
Fairy tales are excellent materials to help children understand the story elements such as plot, setting and theme. They teach children to think critically.
When we heard that again this year that Statutory Assessment for Primary Schools was cancelled our hearts sank at the REU.
Tracy Dohel, Principal Ernest Bevin College: Talks about the importance of having accessible professional HR support.
The Covid-19 pandemic has raised many challenges for the facilities management service.
Local employers step up to the challenge of virtual work experience.
The success of the journey does not belong to services like us but rather to the community we serve.
With students and teachers back in the classroom the temptation may be to go back to how our classrooms were before the pandemic.
The Covid crisis has brought many challenges but there has been an upside. Virtual meetings are often better attended, timely and more focused; just more productive.
Most of us have experienced challenges during the Covid pandemic in relation to many issues including anxiety about the virus itself, missing social interactions with
Schools lose covid testing data and pupil coursework after ‘spike’ in cyber attacks.
Applying the positives of lockdown learning – supporting SEND pupils more effectively back in school.
Discover key observations from over 40 schools involved in our Remote Learning Forums during lockdown.
Children ask questions and want to understand everything better and see it more clearly. Philosophy for Children is a great model nurturing this curiosity.
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