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Pupil mobility - sharing good practice: a joint SCE / Catterick Garrison project
For 3 days between the 29th April and 1st May 2008, the Cyprus primaries welcomed five headteachers from primary schools on Catterick Garrison together with a senior North Yorkshire Local Authority Adviser, in order to develop links and share good practice in the field of pupil mobility. The schools involved were Hipswell C of E, Le Cateau, Carnagill, Wavell Infants and Wavell Juniors.
The visit was coordinated by Matt Blyton, Cyprus-based Primary Strategy Consultant, and followed links established early in 2007 (when Matt visited the Garrison in Catterick) and developed at the March 08 NCSL / SCE conference in Nottingham. Following ½ day visits to each of the 4 Cyprus primaries, where tours of the school were followed by Cyprus schools’ presentations to the visitors, the Catterick Heads then shared aspects of good work at their schools which support high pupil turnover, at a conference on the 1st May. This was extremely well received by the large audience (by Cyprus standards) of 28, including delegates from partner organisations such as JETS, SAAFA, J1 and TPMH hospital, as well as from HQ SCE (Cyprus). The presentations focused on: the use of persona dolls to develop empathy; embedding the SEAL materials; developing positive playgrounds; the use of pupil voice to improve supporting joiners and movers; and the quality of inclusion.
It is hoped that a reciprocal visit will be arranged for next year, and links strengthened. This should be facilitated by Matt's move to North Yorkshire later this year.
The PowerPoint slides used to support these presentations, together with other resources, can be accessed from below.
| Agenda | ||||
| The North Yorkshire context for children from service families Heather Bell - Senior Adviser (Primary) NYCC Quality & Improvement Service |
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| Encouraging Empathy and Inclusion in the Early Years through Personal Dolls Sue Fletcher - Wavell Community Infant and Nursery School |
Fishing around for ways to develop your learners socially and emotionally? SEAL delivers Cathy Greenaway - Wavell Community Junior School |
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| The Quality of Inclusion- Equally Different, Equally Important Grahame Shepherd - Le Cateau Community Primary School |
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| The psychological aspects of mobility and deployment. Anne Wilson, Senior Educational Psychologist |
Service Families on the Move Pupil & Family Services, SCE |
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| Summary of Course Evaluations | ||||