For the next four weeks from 1st April, we will be promoting quality in supplementary education.

Each morning from 10am to 12 noon, check this website and your favourite social media platform. On Twitter, Facebook @supplementaryeducation and Instagram we will be posting about the supplementary schools that have completed the Quality Mark . The settings will be joining in with examples of how they are adapting to  remote teaching and learning. They have all demonstrated amazing dedication to deliver the best possible supplementary education to children and young people.

You know how social media works, the more people read, like, re-post these stories the more people will see the wonderful work that is being done week-in, week-out by passionate, skilful members of your community. So check in.

We’re going to start with the supplementary schools that achieved the Quality Mark over the last 12 months and who were due to come to the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday 24th March to meet with Baroness Merel Ece-Hussein – a great champion of community engagement, supplementary education and the importance of culture and mother tongue. Local MPs were also invited to shake hands with supplementary school headteachers and listen to the words of experience from supplementary school pupils, alumni and staff.  But the Corona Virus put a stop to hand-shaking so we’re going to do it virtually.

Send us your examples of remote learning and we will share these too.

NRCSE is still open, your Quality Development Advisers and our wonderful Membership Administrator are working from home so send them an email in the usual way and they will get back to you. Our tutors and local authority colleagues are also working remotely – so any questions you’d like us to ask them, let us know and we will.

I look forward to hearing from you and together, raising the profile of supplementary education and the brilliant and important work you do.

Stay home, stay safe and stay in touch,

Pascale Vassie OBE

Out-of-school settings, like other parts of the sector, should be following Government’s new rules on “Staying at Home and Away from Others” and encouraging others, such as parents with children that would usually attend their settings, to do the same.

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