Welcome to the October NRCSE E-Bulletin – use the links below to go straight to the section you want
News Training Funding Events
How as the return to school been going? See below for some of the great achievements only four weeks into the new academic year!
If you haven’t renewed your membership yet for 2014/15 you’ll be getting a call from our new volunteer, Farzi, over the next few days to remind you and offer help if you need it. Access to the Quality Framework is included in the price of your membership as well as resources, discounts on training (including tailored courses on your site), and more! We’re keeping the membership fee the same for 3rd year running, so to renew your membership go here.
1. NEWS
Winning schools announced
The British Academy has announce the winners of the 2014 round of its Schools Language Awards. Schools and colleges – or institutions supporting them – were asked to submit proposals for increasing the numbers of students learning languages at higher levels. A panel of judges assessed the originality, credibility and potential replicability of the proposal from more than 100 applications across the UK.
Robin Jackson, CEO at the British Academy said:‘We hope they will become beacons of good practice and inspiration and help to turn the tide on Britain’s language deficit.’
The seven supplementary education projects to win an award are:
Azza supplementary school, London – improving students’ skills in Arabic and English through the use of poetry, drama and the visual arts. Students are mainly from a Sudanese background
Churchill Gardens Primary Academy, London – A family and community learning project in partnership with local primary school aged children and parents to gain GCSEs in Arabic, and inspire students to study languages at a higher level
Leeds Chinese Community School – drama project involved three different groups of students to overcome barriers to taking Chinese A level
Liverpool John Paul II Polish Saturday School – A project designed to improve pupils’ skills in Polish and English through the use of Lowry paintings
Mind Your Language International, London – after-school drama activities in French for students from BME backgrounds in Hackney
Polish Saturday School in Manchester – awareness-raising project aimed at students and parents providing information about the benefits of language skills for university entrance and employment
Potters Bar Greek School – working with Goldsmith’s College to develop high level language skills and critical thinking through the use of art, drama, music and literature.
Quality assurance
In September, nine supplementary schools completed Quality Framework Awards – congratulations!
Junior Filmmakers and Russian School MK in Milton Keynes, Jalaram Bal Vikas in Leicester, Bangladeshi Support Centre and Kerala Community Community Supplementary Schools in Ipswich, Maals Tutorials in Enfield and Kilburn Community School in Brent, have all achieved Bronze Awards.
Anglo Chinese Cultura
l Exchange, Karibu African Women’s Group, Bangladeshi Support Centre and Kerala Community Community Supplementary Schools in Ipswich also achieved a Silver Award following an exciting recognition meeting at Ipswich Museum on 25 September. The partnerships growing between supplementary schools, museums and arts organisations in Ipswich are a key feature of the work going on thanks to the support of Claire McBurney (Supplementary Schools Mentor) and Claire Prosser (Suffolk County Council) – and much of the work is being funded through a 3-year Awards for All grant the supplementary schools and the two Claires put in together.
Supplementary schools in Harrow are preparing for the Silver Quality Framework Award together, they will be coming to recognition meetings in the Spring, we also have five brand new supplementary education projects in sports clubs working towards the Silver Award, and more schools in Suffolk, Barnet, Brent, Kensington & Chelsea, Sheffield and Manchester.
If your school wants to prove the quality of teaching and learning you are providing – get in touch. We’ll do everything we can to support you, email the Quality Development Advice Team on QDA@supplementaryeducation.org.uk or call them 020 7697 4053
Jobs
GCSE Maths Teaching position and GCSE English Teaching position
Accountable: Centre Coordinator
Location: Elbistan Community CentreHourly Rate: Between £20 and £30 per hour depending on experience. 2 hours per week.
DBS disclosure: Enhanced DBS requiredElibistan are north London based charity which promotes benefit of Turkish and Kurdish speaking Community in London. The Centre is formed by the people who mainly come from Kurdish and Turkish speaking minority in the UK. The community centre runs educational activities and project in order to support the educational needs of their members and the children. The centre caters of a variety of cultural activities and youth educational events. The centre provides advocacy services, organise educational seminars, event, breakfast clubs and has a learning centre.
Black Histo
ry Month
All over the country inspiring events, workshops, lectures and arts activities are taking place to celebrate the contribution of people of African heritage in every sphere of life. Here are a few links but be sure to find out what’s going on in your area. Events are open to all and will inspire your pupils without a doubt!
Black History Events coming up in Croydon, Harrow and Islington.
Congratulations to a
ll the pupils and staff at OYA!
NRCSE staff joined them last week for a wonderful celebration of achievement. The name OYA! stands for two things. It is an acronym for Organisation of Young Africans. It can also mean O ya! which in Yoruba expresses a sense of purpose and urgency: Come on, it’s time, let’s do it. Go to the OYA! website to learn more about this wonderful school.
Creating a Community Network
The fourth cross-borough networking event hosted by the NRCSE is taking place on 16th October to share good practice on building networks and supplementary school fora.
We will be looking at the importance of sound legal structures, policies and procedures and robust financial management as well as the benefits of participating in an independent forum.
The event is by invitation but open to all supplementary schools in Barnet, Brent, Camden and Westminster, so if you want to be there, drop a line to the QDA Team (Akhita, Ertanch and Siobhan) qda@supplementaryeducation.org.uk
A further 18 clubs have joined Deutsche Bank’s sporteducate programme
Following a successful pilot scheme across five specially selected clubs at the end of 2013 and the addition of 10 clubs in April, Sporteducate, Deutsche Bank’s flagship Born to Be partnership with the charity Sported, is rolling out the initiative to the final 18 London clubs in September.
Designed in conjunction with the sport for development charity Sported, sporteducate is a pioneering education programme which provides clubs with the funding, training and management support needed to run education and / or employability activities alongside their core sports offering.
As part of the scheme, participants aged 11- to 18-years receive supplementary educational classes at each club varying from core curriculum activities to employability skills, with the aim of helping them to stay in school, improve performance and increase their self-esteem. NRCSE is working with those clubs offering numeracy and literacy for 11 to 16 year-olds to help the put in place the Bronze Management File and work towards Silver Quality Framework Awards. Read more here.
Funding that mainstream schools can use to support children to attend supplementary school
The Pupil Premium is now so embedded in schools as a key government priority, that it is easy to forget it was only introduced back in 2011. The programme is now worth £2.5 billion, and the 2014/15 financial year will see secondary schools receive £935 for each pupil registered as eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last six years – and £1,900 for each looked-after pupil. Generally perceived as a strong government policy by the sector, the devil has been in the detail of implementation. There are many hurdles for schools to overcome in how they spend their Pupil Premium funding and how it is evidenced. It cannot disappear into a budgetary “black hole”. As demonstrated by our excellent speakers there really are ways that supplementary schools can work with mainstream schools to make best use of the funds. Read more about the pupil premium in this article by Catherine Stevens from Challenge the Gap
2. TRAINING
NRCSE OCN-accredited courses: Effective Teaching Skills & Effective Management Skills in Supplementary Schools
These courses are run over 7-9 sessions with learner completing a portfolio of evidence of learning and a practice file showing how their learning is applied in their own supplementary school. August was spent marking and moderating 42 learner portfolios. All have been submitted to OCN for approval…. watch this space for celebration and congratulation!
Next week, Haringey Council Deputy Leader and cabinet for communities, Cllr Bernice Vanier, will be awarding 10 Level 2 and Level 3 certificates to learners who successfully completed the Teaching Skills in British Madrassahs course. Photos to follow.
This term learners in Lincoln, Leicester and Brent have already started the course and more schools in Northamptonshire and Harrow are soon to benefit.
‘You may have knowledge of the subject, this course gives you the skills to pass it on.’ Learner, Milton Keynes Teaching course ‘Micro-teach was a great opportunity for feedback from colleagues…never get that in the supplementary sector.’ Learner, Kensington and Chelsea Teaching course ‘The tutor on the course was very knowledgeable and understood the needs of students. The resource book and learner file are very useful.’ Learner, Tower Hamlets Management course ‘Extremely well taught and very helpful in aiding successful development of our school.’ ‘Useful in pulling together all the disparate policies and procedures into one place. Also the sharing of expertise and experience.’ ‘I have learned a lot from this course and already implemented some of my learning in my school.’ Learners, Camden Management course.
NRCSE open training
If you are interested in attending any of our courses on the open training programme please let us know. We are holding some open training sessions in October/November – see the events calendar for details. The courses can run in the evenings, at weekends or on a week day – but we do need a minimum of 10 learners to enable us to run them. For details of course content and forthcoming dates, check the pages below. Mentor training – 10th September and 4th November, Development and management of your supplementary school – 12th November BOOK NOW Safeguarding for supplementary schools – 30th November Quality assurance for supplementary schools – 3rd September, 1st October, 3rd December Behaviour and classroom management Lesson planning and special educational needs
Book us in for a full day training course on your site
This term we have been delivering inset day training sessions tailored to schools individual needs: such as Rustam School, Barnet Polish School and the Camden Supplementary School Consortium
Booking a full training day on your own site enables us to tailor the course to your specific needs and means that you can get all your staff trained on one day. If you’re interested in commissioning please take a look at our training pages and get in touch to discuss your needs.
3. FUNDING
Land Aid
If you have premises – it may be your parent organisation or another vol. organisation you have a relationship with – you can get money for refurb, conversion, extension, new build. Closing date 20th October.
http://www.landaid.org/our-cause-impact/applying-funding-support
Awards for All
Awards for All gives groups a quick and easy way to get small Lottery grants of between £300 and £10,000. Go to the Awards for All website and download an application form, the forms are quite straight forward, once you’ve put in all the required information about your organisation and your project, give it to someone external to read. If you’d like to send it to us for advice, ring first to make sure someone is available.
- Email the completed form to englandapplications@awardsforall.org.uk at least 3 months before you want your project to start.
- They’ll let you know their decision in six weeks.
If you need more information please email general.enquiries@awardsforall.org.uk or call the Awards for All team for advice on 0845 4 10 20 30
If you want to know how Suffolk Supplementary School Partnership got funding for all of them to work in partnership with each other, complete the Bronze and Silver Quality Framework Awards, engage a mentor to work with them and support their engagement with arts & heritage organisations – get in touch.
BBC Children in Need
We’ve been talking to grants officers and trustees at BBC Children in Need. They’re concerned that they’re still receiving too many funding applications from supplementary schools that are not properly written, don’t address the BBC CIN criteria, or are incomplete. NRCSE is happy to act as referee for your application but we need to have visited your school. The best way for us to do this is for you to complete the online self-assessment and request a visit to complete your Bronze Quality Framework Award. Then you can say you are quality assured in your application (always a bonus!) AND put us down as a referee. The next BBC Children in Need deadline is 1 December, download a small grants (up to £10,000) application form now.
Santander Foundation
Santander have two funding programmes, Community Plus (up to £5,000) and Central Fund (up to £10,000). There are no specific deadlines and you can expect an answer on whether or not your application has been successful within 1 month. Please note that Santander will only fund UK registered charities, your supplementary school itself doesn’t have to be a registered charity but you need to be part of a larger organisation that is registered. www.santanderfoundation.org.uk/ For the Community Plus grant you can go into your local Santander branch to submit your application and you should demonstrate that you have the support of local people, so think about asking a local school, Parent Teachers’ Association, community centre, etc. to endorse your application.
Yapp Charitable Trust
Here is a funder that only makes grants for core funding. They define core funding as the costs associated with regular activities or services that have been ongoing for at least a year. The grant offered is normally in the region of £3,000 per year and for three years. Good opportunity for supplementary schools that have been running for a while, have annual income under £40,000 and are registered charities. Newly registered charities may apply but the organisation must have appointed a management committee and adopted a governing document at least 3 years ago. See more at: http://yappcharitabletrust.org.uk/
UK Community Foundations
Funding Central
- Takes you through a series of questions to return the most appropriate funding opportunities.
- Identifies helpful advice and relevant resources.
4. EVENTS
Polish Educational Society
16,000 children attend Polish supplementary schools in UK, and Polish is now the second most spoken language. There are over 120 Polish Saturday Schools registered with the Polish Macierz Szkolna, that celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2013, and the number is constantly growing. The Society runs an Examination Centre where students are able to sit Polish Language examinations at GCSE and A Level. Following the successful Spring and Summer events in London and Manchester, they are planning a third event in Northern Ireland. This event is for Polish Supplementary Schools managers and administrators on what to consider when setting up a new supplementary school and what to check when you’re already running a school and want to grow. There will also be presentations from Polska Macierz Szkolna and Agata Dmoch (solicitor and social activist), Q&A after the presentations and in the afternoon an opportunity to book one-to-one advice sessions. For more information visit their website www.polskamacierz.org/en/
Supplementary Schools at the British Museum
The Supplementary Schools Programme was established in April 2012 and for the last two years has offered unique cultural opportunities to 2500 children, young people and their wider communities. The programme is developed in collaboration with supplementary schools through its steering group; a dedicated team of teachers who meet every 3 months to advise the museum on future events and activity. Opportunities currently available to supplementary schools include: free training sessions for teachers exploring museum objects as a learning resource, activity weekends which creatively engage with the Museum’s permanent galleries and collections, object handling sessions delivered in supplementary schools (both big and small!), and free tickets to temporary exhibitions as part of the Museum’s Community Previews.
The Supplementary Schools Programme (2014-15) in numbers so far…
- 292 children, young people and adults attended Ming: 50 years that changed China exhibition as part of the Museum’s Community Preview
- 185 children, young people and adults have booked to attend Germany: memories of a nation exhibition as part of the Museum’s Community Preview which will take place on 12th October 2014.
- 18 teachers attended the Connecting Cultures training session in June.
- 10 teachers booked to attend the Exploring objects, sharing cultures training session to prepare them for their visit to the Supplementary Schools and Families Activity weekend in November.
- 58 children, young people and adults are taking part in Exploring objects projects in three Supplementary Schools across London to work creatively with artists and programme the content for the Exploring objects, sharing cultures Supplementary Schools and Families Activity weekend in November.
What’s next? Upcoming activity in 2014
Sunday 12th October Community Preview: Germany
Take advantage of our free ticket offer and come to see a preview of our autumn exhibition Germany. Available exclusively to supplementary school teachers, students and their families.
Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th November Exploring Objects & Sharing Cultures – Family and Supplementary School Activity Weekend
In May 2014 three supplementary schools won a competition to take part in a three-day creative project using dance, storytelling and art to tell the story of their favourite British Museum object. Join us to celebrate and enjoy their final performances and displays and take part in a series of workshops inspired by themes and collections selected by students.
Saturday 6th December Developing Resources training session
We’re running a training session supporting teachers to develop their own learning resources for use in the British Museum which fit their curriculum and their learning aims and objectives and to collectively create a collection of resources that can be adapted for future visits to the Museum.
For more information please see our website or contact Emma Taylor on 0207 323 8398: eltaylor@britishmuseum.org
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