YPF Trust | centre for Supplementary Education

MiFamily Project - 3rd Transnational Meeting
2018-10-04 - 2018-10-05 | ICAR Foundation, 70 Unirii Boulevard, Bloc J5, Sector 3, Bucharest, 030836, Romania
Education systems can act as an important socialisation mechanism for migrants and host communities to foster mutual understanding, respect and trust. But many education systems struggle to provide the language training necessary for migrants to succeed in their new communities.
Many students with a migrant background are also blocked by language barrier. On average, 64% of first-generation migrant students and 41% of second generation students speak a language at home that is different from the language instruction.
Teachers have a large role to play. Many recognize that handling cultural diversity in class is difficult. Large proportions of teachers in several countries feel they need more professional development in the areas of teaching in a multicultural setting. Children in migrant families are key actors in the process of integration, as they broke communication between members of the host community and their own families. While teachers are critical to migrant students´ success in schools, so are their parents.
Students are better learners when their parents are involved in their education. While migrant parents often have high aspirations for their children, they may face multiple obstacles to becoming involved in their child´s schooling, including language barriers, insufficient understanding of how schools in the host country function, and lack of time or money to invest in their child´s education. They also feel alienated and unwelcome, especially if their child has encountered discrimination or abuse. Communities and schools that host migrants need to find ways to communicate with migrant parents who may have different levels of education, language skills and understanding of the school system.
An insufficiently explored approach to overcome the difficulties to involve migrant parents in the education of their children is the Family learning pedagogical approach. Family learning is any learning that includes more than one generation of a family (including extended families and carers). The learning may be informal, through events such as family fun days, or more formal – family learning courses are delivered in settings such as schools, children’s centres and community centres. Family learning is an effective way of providing adults with the skills and knowledge to support their children’s education. It also provides a non-threatening route into learning for adults. The courses aim to help parents support their children’s education – usually focusing on numeracy, literacy and/or language skills.
The aim of MIFAMILY project is to strength the integration of migrant students in Schools and their success in education by providing training, coaching and guidance to migrant parents on Family Learning methods and resources to overcome language barriers and foster active involvement of migrant parents in their children’s education, equipping teachers, school leaders and educators with the necessary skills and innovative tools to support migrant families in the process, strengthening collaboration between schools, families, and other external stakeholders.
To do so, 7 organizations supporting Schools and migrant families from 5 countries (France, Ireland, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom) will work together to lead the project and co-create and test innovative methods and freely accessible OER, including a Training Curriculum (IO1) an Online Platform of OER (IO2) and Guidelines and recommendations (IO3) on Family Learning for Migrants at School.
Teachers, school leaders and educators from organizations working with migrants are the main target users of the project products and final beneficiaries are migrant school pupils and parents. During the life time of the project, the partnership will directly involve 78 teachers, school leaders and educators (28 partners staff / 30 experts involved / 20 target users in pilots), 100 migrant school pupils and parents (in pilots) and 475 stakeholders. A wider audience, of a minimum of 1000 recipients, will be reached at local, regional, national and European level through the planned dissemination activities.
The project will use European frameworks and instruments, like EQF Europass and SchoolEducationGateaway, to boost transparency and recognition of learning outcomes on Family Learning for Migrants at School, with the active support of a network of key associated partners and relevant stakeholders. MIFAMILY will have a direct impact on target beneficiaries, improving the skills on national languages of both migrant children and parents and strengthening School integration and success in education of migrant students, and in the target users, improving the teaching competencies of teachers and educators in Family Learning methods. The long-term impact envisaged is a better integration of migrant students in the Schools and a higher collaboration between schools, families and other external stakeholders, strengthening the School system in Europe

Good Management Course - Day 3
2018-10-13 10:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Castle Hill Community Centre, Highfield Road, Ipswich, England, IP1 6DG, United Kingdom
The purpose of this popular three-day course is to help you to meet the minimum requirements for safe out of school provision.
Suffolk County Council have commissioned this course for supplementary schools in the county. For details and to join the course contact Claire Prosser, Ipswich Locality Officer, Suffolk County Council.
Over the three days we shall prepare three booklets that you can use with parents, teachers and volunteers, and the management committee. Together they will guide you to put together a Management File for your supplementary school.
On Day 3 we will be working on the responsibilities of the management committee and helping you to produce a

Management Committee Guide

To complete the minimum requirements for safe out-of-school provision you must have all of the policies and procedures detailed in the Good Management Pack. Each day we shall complete one of the three focused booklets: Day 1 -Welcome Pack for Parents; Day 2 – Staff and Volunteer Handbook, Day 3 – Management Committee Guide.
Just go to the training section in our online shop to book your place. Each day costs £105 per school (or £75 if you subscribe to NRCSE or for quality assured members). To get the maximum benefit from this course your school should send at least one person to all three sessions. Others from among your staff, parents, management committee can join for one or more of the classes.
Day Three
Management Committee Guide

List of management committee (including appropriate checks)
Management committee responsibilities (and where you are a registered charity and/or incorporated body these are responsibilities governed by law)
Equalities statement
Risk assessment
Financial rules including petty cash rules
Accounts
Appropriate insurance including public liability

Supplementary School Awards Evening
2018-10-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Kensington Aldridge Academy, 1 Silchester Road, London, England, W10 6EX, United Kingdom
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Partnership of Supplementary Schools in the presences of the Worshipful the Mayor of Kensington and Chelsea
and in recognition of the hard work and achievements of students, volunteers and teachers in supplementary schools working with support from Westway Trust
It has been a busy year and examples of the wider opportunities provided for students have included:
poetry workshops with seven of our supplementary schools led by Paul Lyalls, leading to the creation of book called, ‘This is me’ – the book will be launched on the evening.
For the 3rd year consecutively, 125 children participated in a 5 day residential to Hindleap Warren – Ashdown Forest. This is an outdoor activity centre which provides high quality outdoor education and personal development opportunities for children and young people.
Four of our supplementary schools received the new NRCSE Quality Mark in 2018 from the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education

NRCSE Free Inset Refresher Training
2018-10-26 18:00 - 21:00 | The Caraf Centre, 27-30 Cheriton, Queen’s Crescent, London, Camden, NW5 4EZ, United Kingdom
Dear Supplementary School leaders
We are pleased to inform you that NRCSE are organising free inset / refresher training for supplementary schools we work with in the John Lyon’s Charity funded boroughs.
The training will be half a day, and concentrate on the below areas:

Safeguarding
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Behaviour Management

This is an opportunity for us to go over any new developments in these areas and inform you of other training opportunities for supplementary schools. This training is suitable for new supplementary school teachers or those who would like to freshen up on their knowledge in these areas.
Please register your interest with me as soon as possible by returning this email with the name of your school and the teachers you wish to attend. Each school can be represented by up to two people.
Kind regards
Claud
Quality Development Adviser
0207 697 4053
0796 420 3774

Westminster Supplementary Schools - Refresher training
2018-10-31 18:00 - 21:00
Dear Supplementary School leaders
We are pleased to inform you that NRCSE are organising free inset / refresher training for supplementary schools we work with in the John Lyon’s Charity funded boroughs.
The training will be half a day, and concentrate on the below areas:

Safeguarding
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Behaviour Management

Time and venue to be confirmed
For further information contact Ertanch/Claud on 020 7697 4053
