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Message from Nick Wilson, Head of Schools and Learning.
Document Contents:
Dear Colleagues,
This is my final message for this academic year, and I wish you all a pleasant and restful summer break.
Over the past eight years Surrey confederations have developed and achieved many successes including the delivery of the extended services core offer, joint continual professional development, holiday based activities, home school link workers, transition projects, multi-agency working and shared policies and procedures to help raise attainment and progress. Confederations are important as they serve local communities and identify and deliver local priorities through collaboration.
Going forward, we need to secure these important achievements and provide a partnership model to ensure consistency and quality of provision, which will be sustainable. We are committed to finding ways in which we can embed this partnership working to meet the needs of schools and children and young people in your area in the future.
Future structure and organisation
Following our discussions with you, the preferred option is to have 11 borough wide confederations, which align with the districts and boroughs and with other partnerships including 14-19 networks, behaviour and attendance partnerships and children’s centres. These could link to either a quadrant model or borough and district model in the future. Six confederations already operate at a borough level.
Each of the 11 confederations would have a manager reporting to an executive management board representing individual schools. This would not prevent smaller sub-groups continuing to meet within their larger confederation groups as long as this was resourced locally.
The focus of confederations in the future will be around more targeted and preventative work, specifically targeting the most vulnerable and hard to reach groups in our communities. In the future confederations would be expected to:
- Work alongside county services such as Children’s Services, in particular the new children in need teams and other statutory public bodies and the voluntary sector.
- Make better use of facilities and resources within the community and continue to work in partnership to provide support for successful early intervention where we have evidence of positive impact.
These proposals would help to develop a more coherent and multi-agency approach to 0 -19 provision across the county linking with early years, children’s centres, police, health and children in need teams. They will have a significant role in working with confederations and schools to provide advice and assistance in meeting the needs of children and young people in their local areas. New ways of working are presently being piloted in Guildford, Mole Valley and Woking. A borough wide advisory board for children’s centres is being initiated, as well as different ways of working with the health authority.
Funding
As public sector funding is reduced, partnership working across confederations is critical to providing and continuing services that could be at risk. The delivery and prioritisation of services at a local level will enable more detailed information to be available when making difficult decisions around efficiency savings. We recognise that these decisions are vital for the setting of future budgets, approving new contracts of staff and ensuring that priorities for future work are identified.
As some confederations still have a significant underspend, it is likely that some of this funding will be reinvested to provide further financial support in 2011-12.
There may have to be a shared responsibility towards future funding, which will involve funding from the Government, Surrey County Council and schools. The financial challenges will require all confederations to address new ways of working and to continue to learn from best practice to meet the needs of children and young people in their communities, building on, for example, the effective and efficient collaboration on continual professional development and running joint training events
Best wishes until September.
Yours sincerely
Nick Wilson
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Helping the next generation – an Oracle Education Workshop
22 September 2010 Thames Valley Park Reading 10.00 -1.00 followed by lunch
- Mentoring
- Skills training
- Careers workshops
- 21st century skills
- Online competitions
- CPD
- IT Curriculum
- Global connections
Oracle currently offers all these activities
free to primary and secondary schools.
Come and hear what is available and help us to do it better
Join this morning workshop at our Reading offices in Thames Valley Park to hear more about these FREE activities and to help guide our future activities.
The event is for both Primary and Secondary schools and will be informal. Places are limited so please let us know if you will be joining us by emailing Christopher.Binns@oracle.com we will send more details and directions to the offices.
If you are interested but unable to attend on the 22nd then please email to let us know
We will both send you information on the programmes and keep you informed of future sessions we are planning to run later in the year at locations across the UK.
Some current teachers will explain how they work with Oracle and the benefits it can bring.
Draft Programme
- Welcome & Introduction to Oracle
- Oracle Leadership in Society and the Education pillar – aims and objectives
- Brief overview of current free programmes for schools
- Teachers currently working with Oracle say how it works for them
- Facilitated discussion - what schools need from business /how best to provide it
- Individual discussions about programmes
- Summary & next steps
- General Q&A
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AWARDS TO SCHOOLS – PROCEDURE TO FOLLOW FOR INCLUSION IN THE BULLETIN CONTENTS
If you would like to publicise an award that your school has received please send the information to the generic email address: (schoolsbulletin@surreycc.gov.uk)
Please note that once notification has been received it may take between one to two weeks before your award is published in the Director's Stop Press.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT STANDARD IN SCHOOLS AWARD
Congratulations go to:
Pine Ridge Infant & Nursery School and Lorraine School & Nursery
INVESTORS IN PEOPLE RE-ACCREDITATION
Congratulations go to:
Pine Ridge Infant & Nursery School and Lorraine School & Nursery
ECO SCHOOLS GREEN FLAG FOR THE SECOND TIME
Congratulations go to:
Folly Hill Infant School, Farnham
St Polycarp's Catholic Primary School, Farnham
SOUTH EAST IN BLOOM COUNTY AWARD AND GOLD MEDAL
Congratulations go to:
Folly Hill Infant School, Farnham
LITTER FREE GOLD AWARD 2010
Congratulations go to:
The Warwick School, Redhill
ECO SCHOOLS GREEN FLAG AWARD
Congratulations go to:
Thames Ditton Infant School, Thames Ditton
| Contact Name : | Sharon Gibbons (Joanne Aldred for Awards) | Creation Date : | 07/21/2010 |
| Tel : | 020 8541 9562 | Published On : | 07/21/2010 |
| Fax : | 020 8541 9502 | For Academic Year : | 2009/10 |
| Email : | sharon.gibbons@surreycc.gov.uk | Retention Date : | |
| Postal Address : | Room 165, County Hall, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 2DJ |
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