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North Somerset Teaching Alliance Newsletter North Somerset Teaching Alliance newsletter Welcome to the North Somerset Teaching Alliance Get the most out of your Newsletter Alliance: follow us on twitter Autumn 2017 @northsomersetTA New Teaching Schools Portal www.tsportal.org Please use the portal for all PD bookings and to see everything on offer in the sub-region. Our web- site continues to provide full details of all PD and other work. Pastoral Leaders... New National Professional Qualifications ...enjoyed a superb session led by Dan We are delighted to be offering the newly reformed NPQML and McGilloway, Deputy Head at Gordano School, NPQSL. The window for application is now open! in November. Just in case you haven’t yet seen these programmes they are starting The session looked at the overlap of the academic and pastoral spheres and gave support in analysis in Bristol and North Somerset in the new year, please see our of progress data and intervention, helping Pastoral website for full details. We have extended the deadlines to just after leaders to track more effectively, and ensure that Christmas to give people a little more breathing space before the all students make progress. holidays. School Direct with the NSTA Women into leadership Once again we are running our Women into Leadership programme. This is part of an NCTL initiative to increase the equality and diversity in school leadership. Our aim is to provide women with the tools, knowledge, skills and confidence to enable career progression. Congratulations to 12 colleagues from Backwell, Broadoak, Chew Valley, Churchill, Gordano, Nailsea and Wells- way School; who start the programme on Monday 15th January. NSLEs Specialist Leaders of We were excited to create a new role within the Education (SLEs) NSTA for colleagues who have excellent teaching skills and who wish to work to improve T+L in North Somerset Leaders their schools. Congratulations to George Reakes, of Education (NSLEs) Ben Mortimer, Matt Sales, Trish Groves, Sarah Tucker, Leyla Pattison who have been appointed and have started work on various projects. These A belated congratulations to our newly include: Coaching and mentoring NQT teachers; a designated SLEs : (clockwise from top left) research project on retrieval practice; work on Liz Kerr, Sue Strachan, David Weekes, behaviour routines and on giving live feedback. Wendy Farrier, Chris Cooknell and Alison NSLEs will work collaboratively with teachers and Cooper-White. These colleagues are part of our school improvement team and can Chris Moyse was appointed to the leaders within their own school with a support individual departments or Senior SLE role for 2017-18. We are commitment to developing whole school colleagues across the Alliance. Look out for exceptionally lucky to have him as practice. If you think this is for you look out for training that they offer and contact Helen part of the NSTA team. opportunities to apply for 2018-19 Twiggs for more information. Subject network meetings: Look out for subject network meetings; details are on our website for Art, Maths, English, Food, MFL, Music, PE, Pastoral leaders, Product Design, Science and Textiles. Please contact the lead teacher if you are interested in networking. MFL Art English Science Peter Morris Nigel Downing Jacqui Pratlett Yolanda Chadwick [email protected] YC@churchill- pmorris@gordanoscho [email protected] somerset.sch.uk academy.org ol.org.uk PE Music Maths Pastoral Leaders Emma Rose Alison Cooper- Gill Tinkler Craig Mawford erose@gordanoschool White [email protected] .org.uk cmawford@nailseasch aac@churchill- ool.com academy.org 5 reasons to be part of the North Somerset Teaching Alliance 1 A chance to play your part in a self improving system, nurturing and celebrating the talent you have in your schools. 2 Access high quality CPD developing our teachers and leaders for the future. 3 Lead research and development to enable evidence based change across the Alliance and beyond. 4 Be part of a collaborative effort to solve the “big education issues”. 5 Be a part of a co-ordinated recruitment drive ensuring new teachers are coming to North Somerset . Backwell School, Station Road, Backwell, BS48 3BX www.nsta.org.uk 01275 463371 Isobel George Director of NSTA Helen Twiggs NSTA administrator [email protected] [email protected] .
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