posted by Dawn Rennie, Senior Practitioner (Parental and Family Engagement)

As you will know, we are exploring approaches to further support our families who may be experiencing poverty.  After identifying this need we have arranged for all our schools, Primary and Secondary to have access to an e-referral system to Angus Foodbanks.

The families which you work with may, on occasion, be in some sort of crisis. This access pack will enable you to give them almost immediate support to your local foodbank.

The process is (or should be!) fairly simple. There is a comprehensive guidance pack attached as well as a Data Protection consent form. In order for your school to be registered this form will have to be returned to info@angus.foodbank.org.uk.  Once this form is processed you will receive an email confirming your access and instructions on setting up your user name and password.

Please ensure you copy me into this response (RennieD@angus.gov.uk). This will enable us to monitor uptake of this service.

We are hopeful that there will be a good uptake of this service.  The Foodbank have assured us they will be able to meet demand.

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Trussell Trust Angus Foodbank Referral Form

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posted by Carol Lyon, Carol Lyon, Improvement, Angus Virtual School, Schools & Learning

Barefoot New Term Starter Guide #NTSG campaign goes live on 27 August and will run to 31 October.

The new resources provide educators with a pack of materials they can use straight away in the classroom. The keyring gives quick computational exercises and the mini lesson plans provide a condensed version of the full resource. Barefoot have also included a resource tracker so they can record what lessons they have downloaded/used and pupil stickers as a reward for the children when they have completed an activity.

The five assorted resources are:

• 2D Shape Drawing
• Bug in the water
• Pizza Pickle
• Scratch Jnr Tinkering
• Variables, unplugged activity

Schools that request a workshop to be delivered up to 31 December 2018 using the campaign code “101” will receive an NTSG 2.0 Pack with their teacher packs that includes:

• A kick-start guide to Barefoot, including FAQs
• Five mini resources, including lesson plans and activities
• A keyring for quick activity ideas
• Puzzle and pupil stickers
• A resource tracker that allows teacher to log and track their Barefoot progress

Involving everyone

Alongside the campaign we also have a prize draw running to help us drive more interaction with the program through social media. To take part teachers just need to download all five of the NTSG 2.0 featured resources. Then, simply post a fun image of their class using the resources in a lesson to the Barefoot Facebook and Twitter pages, under #NTSG.

Barefoot will draw a winner at the end of October and they will receive a tech pack of goodies including a digital camera they can use in school.

Please look out for our social media posts on Facebook and Twitter that you can share and re-tweet. #NTSG

posted by Rhonda McFarlane, Funding Officer, Economic Development

Attached is the latest issue of the Funding Alert Newsletter. The Newsletter features the latest funding opportunities from the Grants 4 Schools website over the last 2 weeks.   This issue contains 14 pages of the latest funding opportunities available to UK schools.

Highlights in this issue include:

– New funding available for schools to set up Breafast Clubs.
– Grants of up to £100,000 availableto to schools in Scotland for Sports Facilities.
– Grants of up to £6,000 available to schools in the UK to develop educational and cultural links with Japanese schools.
– Schools can apply for grants of up to £1,000 to run Microbiology projects.

For further information on these; and other funding opportunities available to your school, please see the attached Newsletter.   Funding Alert 28th June 2018

posted by Fiona Pollock, Organisational Development Facilitator, Angus Council

Dear Colleague,

As you may be aware a review of the multi-agency child protection core training programme is underway and a similar review of the adult protection core training programme has been approved and will commence shortly.  The aim of these pieces of work is to ensure that multi-agency learning provided meets the current needs of the workforce in a flexible and resource efficient way.  

With the training reviews in progress this is we felt this is an ideal time for us to consider what topics might be effectively delivered on a Protecting People basis – so open to the whole multi-agency workforce and not specifically targeted to either the adult of children’s workforce.

We are very keen to gather views from workers on the frontline to ensure that we are identifying the right topics to deliver in this way.

We have kept this survey very short (only 5 questions) and would be grateful if you could spare a few moments of your time to share your views.  To access the survey please follow this link

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TFT9TJL.

The survey will remain open until Friday 29th June.

Many thanks in advance,

Fiona Pollock                                                                      Lynne Houston
CP/GIRFEC Training Sub Chair                                     Adult Protection Training Sub Chair

posted by Kim Walker, Schools and Learning Support Officer, Workforce Development, Schools and Learning

Please see the attached flyer Professional learning flyer

posted by Lisa McMahon, Senior Practitioner , Child Protection, Schools and Learning

‘Your Parenting Plan – A guide to making practical arrangements for your children if you live apart or are separating.’ A resource recently released by the Scottish Government.

Parental Contract