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Please use the links below to find news from the section or subject you are interested in. Sections publishing new items are highlighted in red, with sections publishing longer-life items remaining green-blue.

Adult Learners | Assessment | Behaviour and Attendance | Creative Arts | Design & Technology | DLC | Educational Visits | Effective Learning and Teaching Project | Finance and Funding | General News | Geography | ICT | Inclusion (SEN) | Literacy/English | PE and Sport | PSHCE | Primary National Strategy News | School Improvement Service | Schools' Diversity | Schools Library Service | Secondary National Strategy | Teaching Assistants | Workforce Remodelling |

Adult Learners

Adult Education Service Newsletter

26 February 2007

Adobe Acrobat PDF 390KB Adult Education Newsletter - January 2007

Assessment


27 September 2006

New news itemKS1 evaluation report

KS1 2006 evaluation of statutory teacher assessments This report provides an overview of findings from visits to schools from November 2005 to July 2006. Recommendations for good practice in assessment are included in the report.

Microsoft Word Document 37KB Foundation Stage Moderation Evaluation 2005/2006

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15 August 2006

KS2/KS3 evaluation report

KS2/KS3 review of end of Key Stage Statutory Assessments (SATs) The report provides an overview of findings from the monitoring visits to schools immediately before, during and after the KS2 and KS3 SATs weeks in May.

It includes information relating to Workforce Reform Agreement, national and local issues as well as highlighting recommendations for good practice. Please note that training offered to teachers new to Y6 will now take place in November and a choice of 3 venues will be offered, as a result of feedback received at last year’s training.

Microsoft Word Document 41KB KS2/KS3 Evaluation Report 2006

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15 August 2006

The Workload Agreement - Annual statutory assessment implications

This guidance outlines the main points that affect the administration of statutory assessments and includes an example of recommended practice in one of our LA schools.

Microsoft Word Document 35KB The Workload Agreement - Implications for administration of statutory assessments

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15 August 2006

OPT5 Project Interim Report

This has been a very successful research project that is likely to have far-reaching implications. The schools involved used optional Y5 mathematics tests in January 2006 and were provided with analysis feedback in February with support from the LA's CFAS Performance Team, Assessment Co-ordinator, and Primary Strategy consultants.

Adobe Acrobat PDF 941KB The OPT5 Research Project - Changing the timing of the optional Y5 mathematics test and using PAT question analysis to inform teacher assessment judgements as an ongoing process.

Child learning

Teachers were encouraged to re-design/plan their teaching, based on the findings, to meet the individual needs of pupils. The findings are included in this interim report and the final impact will be evaluated summer 2007 when these pupils receive their Y6 SATs results.

' Thanks for organising such a relevant and useful project.'
' This is a very valuable project...definitely worth rolling out...we are considering the use of similar analysis of optional SATs for all KS2 classes as a way of diagnosing problems and planning ways forward.'

Behaviour and Attendance


16 February 2006

Adobe Acrobat PDF 30KB 'SEAL News' February 2006

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06 October 2005

Adobe Acrobat PDF 527KB 'Behaviour Matters 4' Autumn 2005

Creative Arts

19 Mar 2007

Creative Contexts Film Successes

To keep you informed about the ongoing successes for short films made in the East Riding of Yorkshire as part of Creative Contexts for Learning 2006.

Pocklington Community Junior School's film 'Cow Eight Is Late' has been selected for showing at the Bang! Short Film Festival in Nottingham on 24th March 2007 at 3.00 p.m.

Hessle High School's film 'Squirrels Ate My Hammock' has been selected for inclusion in a major European animation festival in Prague in May as well as being included in the Nottingham Bang! Festival (as above).

It has also been scheduled to be shown on Propeller TV on Sky Channel 195 on Saturday 31st March 2007 at 10.54pm.

David Mell, Teaching and Learning Consultant, Creative Arts
Tel: (01482) 392466
E-mail: david.mell@eastriding.gov.uk

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29 Dec 2005

Creative Connections Newsletter

Adobe Acrobat PDFCreative Connections, December 2005

The latest news and information for art and design in the East Riding of Yorkshire Education Authority.

Design & Technology

17 March 2004

D & T News Spring 2004

Latest news relating to design and technology.

For more information please contact david.bowes@eastriding.gov.uk.

Microsoft Word Document 28K 'D&T news Spring 2004'

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3 February 2004

'Post A Pringle Challenge'

A design and make assignment for primary pupils. ‘Structures’ is the focus of the challenge with the emphasis on packaging.

For more information please contact david.bowes@eastriding.gov.uk.

Microsoft Word Document 28K 'Post A Pringle Challenge'

Digital Learning Community


The Digital Learning Community have their own News page within that particular section.

Click here to visit the DLC News page.

Educational Visits

26 July 2005

Important Internet Links

Web pageNational Outdoor Education Adviser Panel

The latest news and information regarding Educational Visits provided by the national Outdoor Education Advisers Panel.

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Educational Visits Newsletters

Adobe Acrobat PDF 1.1MB Educational Visits Update Newsletter Spring 2007

Adobe Acrobat PDF 1.2MB Educational Visits Update Newsletter Autumn 2006

Effective Learning and Teaching Project

5 January 2004

ELTP - Notice of Meeting

Click on the link below to open the document. The required viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint insalled on your computer) is available to download free from the Downloads section.

Microsoft PowerPoint presentation 72KB Notice of ELTP Meeting

Finance and Funding


13 February 2006

Holderness Learning & Skills Development Fund

Please click on the link below to open the newsletter:

Microsoft Word Document 28KB Funding Press Information

General Schools' News


Updated 6 July 2007

School Closures due to Flooding

Please click on the links below to open the latest information about the recent flooding and its effects to our schools.

Adobe Acrobat PDF 46KB School Closure Information

Addendum

All Saints Infants School, Hessle - open to all children on Monday 9 July

Kirk Ella St Andrews Primary School - open Tuesday 10 July

Adobe Acrobat PDF 510KB Inmans Primary School, Hedon

Letter to parents regarding changes due to flooding.

Geography, including Environmental Education


11 July 2005

QCA Geography Newsletter Summer 2005

Please click on the link below to open the newsletter:

Adobe Acrobat PDF 385KB QCA Newsletter

Information and Communication Technology

21 June 2007

Learning Platform for East Riding Schools

Available to download below is a letter explaining the latest postion of the East Riding Schools' Learning Platform.

We appreciate that various Heads will be at varying stages of knowledge of this development and it is the intention of this letter to rectify that situation.

Adobe Acrobat PDF 43KB Learning Platform for East Riding Schools

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20 January 2006

ICT Support Pack Announcement

Microsoft Word Document 31KB ICT Support Pack Announcement

The Practical Support Pack is an online collection of downloadable resources designed to help primary and KS3 secondary teachers develop their teaching practice using ICT. They include lesson plans, audio/video clips, presentations, software applications, skills guidance and evaluation materials. There’s also an extensive library of video case studies.

For more information about the pack please contact:

Helen Wright
helen.wright@dfes.gsi.gov.uk

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21 October 2004

ICT Newsletters 2004

The latest news bulletins (2004) for ICT are available here. Click on a document's title to download it in a printable format.

Adobe Acrobat PDF 197KB Primary ICT Co-ordinator Newsletter, Autumn 2004

Microsoft Word Document 63KB ICT Newsletter, Spring 2004
Microsoft Word Document 350KB ICT Newsletter, Spring 2004
Microsoft Word Document 23KB ICT Newsletter, Spring 2004

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15 January 2004

Broadband 100

As the one hundredth school in the East Riding gets a high speed broadband Internet connection, a special visitor arrives to help in the celebrations.

For more information please contact:

John Janulewski, ICT Strategy Manager
Tel: (01482) 392404
E-mail: john.janulewski@eastriding.gov.uk

Inclusion (SEN and Gifted &Talented)

New news item15 January 2008

SEN Matters

Adobe Acrobat PDF 858KB SEN Matters Christmas 2007

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20 December 2007

Wednesday 6th February 2008, Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Willerby.

Keynote speaker: Jean Gross, Director of 'Every Child a Reader'.

Adobe Acrobat PDF 295KB The 7th Annual Inclusion & SEN Conference flier

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2 January 2007

Build a School in Sri Lanka Appeal


Kings' Mill School pupil being interviewed

A short documentary by John Hill about the 'Build a School in Sri Lanka Appeal', including interviews from pupils of King's Mill School involved in the project, will be screened on ITV Yorkshire television in January 2007.

For more information please contact:

Nicola O'Riordan, Teaching and Learning Consultant, Inclusion
Tel: (01482) 392476
E-mail: nicola.o'riordan@eastriding.gov.uk

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21 December 2006

SEN Matters

Adobe Acrobat PDF 4.7MB SEN Matters Autumn 2007

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19 Dec 2006

Sixth Annual Inclusion & SEN Conference: 'Every SENCO Matters'

24th January 2007 at the Ramada Jarvis, Willerby, Hull.

Web page East Riding CPD website course notice

Literacy/English

Primary Literacy

The latest literacy news items are now incorporated into the Primary Strategy newsletter.

Click here to access the Primary Strategy newsletters.

19 October 2004

Primary Literacy Co-ordinators Agenda

Agenda for forthcoming meeting with Primary Literacy Co-ordinators in November, 2004.

Microsoft Word Document 19KB Primary Literacy Co-ordinators Agenda

Physical Education and Sport


6 May 2008

PE 'A' Level Revision Day

The annual 'A' Level Revision Day on Friday 18th April at Longcroft School and Performing Arts College saw 46 Edexcel AS and A2 students from East Riding of Yorkshire schools attend a revision day delivered by Mike Hill, the Chief Examiner for Edexcel.

The day was a great success and the students found it very beneficial.

Aims

  • To provide an informative revision day delivered by high quality 'A' Level PE Specialists.
  • To support East Riding students in meeting this potential in their 'A' Level exams.

To ensure all students within the East Riding of Yorkshire are provided with the opportunity to attend there is another A Level Revision Day organised for OCR AS and A2 students on the Saturday 3rd May at Longcroft School and Performing Arts College.

If you are interested in attending the day please contact:

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6 May 2008

Join Our Team!

The Sport and Play Development Service and the South Hunsley Sports Partnership have applied to ‘Join our Team’ for a fantastic ‘Innovative Athletics in East Riding’ project.

The project itself will hopefully see the introduction to sportshall athletics into 9 secondary schools with annual competitions linking into the local clubs and regional and national competitions.

The number of votes we receive will determine the amount of funding awarded, if we receive 200 votes we get £1000 towards the project, if we get the most votes in the region we get £12,500 and the chance to win the national prize of £50,000.

Follow the link below for how to vote online and join our team!

www.joinourteam.com/Innovative-Athletics-in-the-East-Riding

Thank you for your support, for more information please contact:

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17 April 2008

Zone Hockey Skills Session

Pupils from King's Mill School took part in a Zone Hockey Skills Session on Wednesday 9th April.

The session was a great success and saw pupils of all abilities get together and compete in mixed ability teams.

Zone Hockey is an adapted version of hockey and can include players of all abilities.

It is ideal for players with physical disabilities, sensory impairments, learning or behavioural difficulties but it also offers opportunities for the integration with the able-bodied.

Zone Hockey is a 5-a-side game and is a totally inclusive game and is suitable for electric wheelchair users, manual wheelchair users, ambulant and semi-ambulant players.

The small-sided teams, together with the adapted playing areas, ensure a type of involvement in the game which will provide players with enjoyment and success.

Players, both disabled and non-disabled, can participate side-by-side in what can be a high-scoring, fast-moving, fun game of hockey.

For further information on Zone Hockey please contact:

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17 April 2008

East Riding Table Cricket and Boccia Skills Session

Pupils from King's Mill School took part in a Table Cricket and Boccia Skills Session at Beverley Leisure Centre on Tuesday 18th March.

The session was a great success and saw pupils of all abilities get together and compete in mixed ability teams.

The session was devised as a practice session before the Hull and East Riding Table Cricket and Boccia Competition taking part at Hull YPI on Monday 14th April.

The Competition will see special schools from the Hull and East Riding area compete together in both disciplines with the winner representing the region in the Yorkshire Competition.

For further information on either of these sports please contact:

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17 April 2008

UK Ultimate Leaders' Workshop

The latest UK Ultimate Leaders' Workshop saw 13 Teachers and Coaches from East Yorkshire take part in a three hour workshop, which involved:

  • an introduction to the rules;
  • basic frisbee skills - backhands, forehands, catching, pivoting and marking;
  • some practice drills;
  • and game-based practice.

Ultimate is a fun, non-contact invasion game that incorporates aspects from other team sports such as american football, netball and basketball.

The game is played using a disk or frisbee where the object of the game is to score a goal by the attacking team completing a pass to a player standing in the oppositions end zone.

The aim is to try and engage more young people in sport and physical activity by providing new alternative activities within and outside of the school timetable.

If you are planning to introduce ultimate in your school/area, or would like to know enough about the game to just consider whether to do so, then this course is for you!

The course has been kept deliberately simple and is entirely contained within the three hour session.

It is intended to give you enough information to get started.

If you are interested in the workshop or would like further information regarding ultimate then please contact:

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Primary National Strategy


7 January 2005

Newsletter, January 2005

Adobe Acrobat PDF 19KB Primary Strategy Newsletter

Personal, Social, Health & Citizenship Education


Updated news item24 October 2006

Certification of the Teaching of PSHE

Many congratulations to the following teachers who have successfully completed this programme of professional development and recognition of teaching.

Photos are available for download and print at the following sizes:

RGB 300dpi

Shelley BrownHallgate Junior SchoolView photo (1.4MB)
Sandra BurrowsParkside PrimaryView photo (1.3MB)
Karen PockleyHilderthorpe Infant and Nursery SchoolView photo (1.3MB)
Keith FranklinVermuyden SchoolView photo (1.3MB)
Sarah Wood Cottingham Croxby Primary SchoolView photo (1.2MB)
Brigid JohnstoneSouth Cave CE VC Primary SchoolView photo (1.5MB)
Lesley KellyKing's Mill SchoolView photo (1.3MB)
Caroline WarrHook CE VC Primary School 
Group Shot 1(with certificates)View photo (1.2MB)
Group Shot 2(without certificates)View photo (1.3MB)

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03 October 2005

Certification of the Teaching of PSHE

Many congratulations to the following teachers who have successfully completed this programme of professional development and recognition of teaching.

Karen BerryHessle Penshurst Primary School
Julie CornwellElloughton Primary School
Sarah ChadwickKeyingham Infants School
Maggie ColbyHedon Primary School - presently seconded to the Hull Healthy Schools Team
Sue FellowsSproatley Primary School
Joanne LeightonBoothferry Primary School
Rachel RobinsonHallgate Infants School
Janet McGrory HillKingsway Primary School
Karron YoungPocklington Junior School

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07 April 2005

Y Vote Mock Elections

Downloadable resources from www.mockelections.co.uk

A joint initiative run by The Hansard Society, The Electoral Commission and the Department for Education and Skills, the Y Vote Mock Elections aim to boost young people's interest in politics by providing a unique opportunity to get involved in the excitement of organising a school election.

More than 1,200 schools nationwide have signed up to take part in the 2005 Y Vote Mock Elections, making this year the most successful in the programme's history.

Schools can download all the resources they need to take part at www.mockelections.co.uk.

The comprehensive teacher resource pack can be interpreted according to the level of students' understanding of the political process. The pack contains teachers' notes and supporting materials, including a step-by-step guide to the mock elections, ballot papers and registration forms, activity ideas, manifesto guides to all the political parties represented at Westminster, and key curriculum links.

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08 March 2005

PSHCE Certification 2005-2006

The latest information and the form to express your interest is available here. Click on a document's title to download it in a printable format.

Microsoft Word Document 753KB PSHE Certification 2005-2006

Microsoft Word Document 20KB PSHE Certification 2005-2006 Interest Form

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5 January 2005

DfES publishes draft CPD handbook for citizenship teachers

"Making Sense of Citizenship" has been produced collaboratively by the Citizenship Foundation and DfES.

The first draft chapter is available to download and for comment from www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk then search down the page for "Making Sense of Citizenship".

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5 January 2005

Anti-Racist School Competition 2005

Further details online from www.theredcard.org

The competition is organised by Show Racism the Red Card - Fans and Footballers Against Racism.

This is an antiracist charity established with the aim of using professional footballers as antiracist role models.

The competition is open to pupils aged 5 - 15 in all UK schools.

Overall winner, prize money of £2000 for their school.

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14 June 2004

East Riding Schools Sign Up

Over 100 East Riding Schools sign up for Healthy School Award.

School Improvement Service


29 June 2004

Making Data Work

Following a successful conference on the above theme in February, which saw the launch of the good practice guide, School Improvement: Making Data Work (TEN, Confed and DfES), a series of regional seminars has been organised for LEA officers and advisers to explore current developments and effective practice.

Adobe Acrobat Document 170K Making Data Work

For more information please contact:

Virtual Staff College,
Humanities Building.
Manchester University.
Manchester M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 2758815

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15 January 2004

Broadband 100

As the one hundredth school in the East Riding gets a high speed broadband Internet connection, a special visitor arrives to help in the celebrations.

For more information please contact:

John Janulewski, School Link Advisor for ICT
Tel: 01482 392404
john.janulewski@eastriding.gov.uk

Schools' Diversity


25 August 2006

Changes to Community Plans

Significant changes have been made to the community element in the new guidance for applications and redesignations. Please ensure that you familiarise yourself with the new guidance available from the following website:

Website www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/specialistschools/

Secondary National Strategy


12 January 2007
Spring Headlines 2007

This termly update provides headteachers and senior leaders with a brief summary of the priorities, recommended actions and details of the support offered by the Secondary National Strategy in the spring term.

Adobe Acrobat PDF 19KB Secondary National Strategy Spring Headlines

Teaching Assistants


The Teaching Assistants section has its own News page.

Click here to visit the Teaching Assistants’ News page.

Workforce Remodelling


10 March 2004

Update on HLTAs

Microsoft Word Document 23K Update on HLTAs


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