MAY 2020 COVID NEWSLETTER Welcome to our monthly Cardiff Commitment Newsletter to inform schools and partners of projects which have been developed to support schools, children, young people and their families. Alternatively if your organisation or schools needs support from the Cardiff Commitment team then please get in contact by emailing [email protected] THE DIFF DIARIES Thank you for sharing the ‘Diff Diaries information with your parents/carers and pupils and encouraging your school community to take part. It is a great way for children and young people to connect, share their experiences and have their lockdown journey documented and archived for prosperity by the Museum for Cardiff. We have received some fantastic entries and we are looking forward to more this week. Please can you continue to share with your school community on social media, school website and parent apps the following links: To see what children and young people have been up to whilst in lockdown and view all our Diff Diaries entries click here. To submit your Diff Diary entry please click here. To see this week’s Diff Diary entries Best Bits go to the Cardiff Commitment Twitter and Facebook accounts. VIRTUAL TRANSITION PROJECT The Cardiff Commitment with partners has developed a Virtual Transition Project with three pilot high schools; Eastern High School, Fitzalan High School and Cathays High School. Transition is important for children and young people and provides opportunity to develop skills to build relationships, gain confidence and feel safe, all of which lead to improved outcomes in High School. The Virtual Transition Project provides Year 6 pupils access to a secure web page and google classroom developed by the secondary school they will be transitioning to in September. The web page and classroom hosts a variety of activities and encourages children, young people and staff to communicate and get to know one another better and find out more about the school, staff, maps of the school, uniform, expectations and post any questions they may have either in form or house groups. A further four high schools have engaged with the project since the pilots was launched; Cantonian High School, St Illtyd’s High School, Corpus Christi R.C High School and Mary Immaculate High School. If you would like your school to get involved please email: [email protected] Cari Merriott Area Leader Transition/Health and Wellbeing Cathays High School It is fantastic that Cathays High School and our feeder Primaries are part of this Project. It is so important that we are part of it so ensure a smooth transition for Year 6 in these difficult times. It enables us to carry on with our partnership working which we have done through Year 6. We want Year 6 to feel happy and excited to join high school and this Project certainly supports them. CREATIVE INDUSTRIES MENTOR SPOT-A-BEE APP SCHEME 18-25 YEAR OLDS Between June – Sept 2020, The Wales Millennium Centre, in partnership with A New Direction’s employability programme Create Jobs and with funding from ScreenSkills, will deliver Meet-a-Mentor: Behind the Lens, a four-month mentoring course that will support up to 15 young people aged 18-26 with mentoring from creative professionals from the film, media, advertising, cultural and music industries. The mentoring will pair young people with a creative professional who has specialisms and knowledge from Cardiff University in partnership with Glasgow University the film and moving image, media, advertising sector have launched our Spotabee app which allows members including producers, designers, set builders, editors, of the public to upload images of bees and plants onto a VFX, filmmakers, amongst other. google map so that we can record their distribution in time and space. So far we have had over 600 entries with Those young people interested should email: Emma some from as far afield at California. Gould [email protected] If you are interested you can down loaded via the For more information about the scheme please look following links; here, https://www.createjobslondon.org/meet-a-mentor IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spot-a-bee- Link to blogs from participants, spotteron/id1509849471 https://www.createjobslondon.org/blog?type=meet-a- mentor Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotter on.spotabee BILINGUAL RESOURCES TO HELP PARENTS TEACH This would be a fun activity for students and parents alike and is something they can do while taking their daily COMPUTING AT HOME exercise. If you’re a parent looking for new home learning Cardiff University – Pharmabees Science Resources content, you might like the new bilingual resources to - help learn about computing from @BarefootcComp – https://sciencesessions.wixsite.com/sciencesessions/reso part of #BTSkillsForTomorrow urces Home learning resources from @BarefootComp are now available in Welsh as well as English. With fun lesson-based activities and mini missions, children CARDIFF COUNCIL YOUTH can work together with their families to develop their computational thinking skills at home. SERVICE YOUTUBE CHANNEL https://www.barefootcomputing.org/homelearning Cardiff Youth Service have been working creatively to support young people through virtual formats and have BT will also be tweeting about these new resources developed a YouTube channel to allow young people to via @btcymruwales this week - and again when extra engage with informal learning opportunities. Videos ones are added so keep your eyes peeled! include cooking tutorials, exercise routines, tips to stay mentally healthy, question and answer sessions with other Meantime, there’s more information about the help organisations about issues impacting young people or and support with digital skills that is available for all opportunities available to them and there’s much more to age groups and abilities through our Skills for come. Follow this link to their YouTube channel: Tomorrow programme here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGOUjc1asziIvYT- q8Mjdnw GOOD NEWS STORIES 30 DAY ENVIRONMENT CHALLENGE Please show your support for the youth council and get behind the Environment Subgroup’s 30 Day Challenge. This challenge includes but is not limited to young people, everyone can get involved! Please see posters attached. More information available here: https://cardiffyouthcouncil.com/2020/05/27/environment- 30-day-challenge/ MEET THE TEAM Athika Ahmed a pupil at Fitzalan High School who attended the Cardiff Commitment coordinated work experience week at the Heath Hospital last summer has applied and been accepted to study medical sciences and has also became a member of the Cardiff & Vale Youth Health Board. During the school closure Athika has been busy and has made a poster to explain the virus to children. The Health Board have tweeted it and are it is now being displayed in hospitals around the city. Meet the Cardiff Commitment team working throughout lockdown to support schools and employers. Carly, Vicky, Hannah and Elen. TEACHING RESOURCES COVID-19: CARDIFF'S SECONDARY SCHOOLS PRAISED FOR THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PPE Cardiff's secondary schools have been supporting frontline health workers across the city by providing thousands of items of PPE, during COVID-19. It is estimated that over 10,000 face shields and Cardiff Commitment partners have given us visors have already been manufactured using school access to teaching resources that will be of use to equipment and materials by many schools including primary and secondary schools in Cardiff. Please Cardiff High School, Cathays High School, Bishop of find below the links to some of the resources. Llandaff High School, Ysgol Gymraeg Glantaf and St If your school is interested to engage further with David's College. any of the below companies please get in contact with the Cardiff Commitment Team: Whitchurch High School and Llanishen High School have provided additional acetate for manufacturing Primary School Resources and Willows High School is taking delivery of equipment this week so that they can also start HMRC Junior Tax Facts - producing valuable items of PPE. https://sites.google.com/d/1joTU5a7My4qnJdZpHHzm EdaenAIDSe08/p/19CIJUwLerQm6Vqwo3- In addition, staff from the Design Technology and kEybi_3EoECITS/edit Textiles department at Ysgol Gymraeg Glantaf have made 175 bags to hold scrubs and have now moved Into Film – Film Industry Resources - on to making scrubs in accordance with NHS https://sites.google.com/d/1joTU5a7My4qnJdZpHHzm guidelines, with the target of 70 tunics a week. EdaenAIDSe08/p/19CIJUwLerQm6Vqwo3- kEybi_3EoECITS/edit Cardiff Councils Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Education, Employment and Skills, Cllr PwC – Tech We Can - Sarah Merry said: "I am absolutely overwhelmed to https://sites.google.com/d/1joTU5a7My4qnJdZpHHzm hear of the fantastic work that is going on in our EdaenAIDSe08/p/19CIJUwLerQm6Vqwo3- schools to help support front line health workers kEybi_3EoECITS/edit during the pandemic. Secondary School Resources "The generosity from staff, pupils and their wider Legal & General – Everyday Money - school communities is having an outstanding https://sites.google.com/d/1joTU5a7My4qnJdZpHHzm contribution. Many schools will have to repurchase EdaenAIDSe08/p/19CIJUwLerQm6Vqwo3- items when school's open again so I would like to kEybi_3EoECITS/edit commend them for their kindness and thank all those who have volunteered their time." HMRC Tax Facts - Cardiff High School and Cathays High School are https://sites.google.com/d/1joTU5a7My4qnJdZpHHzm now producing visors suitable for use when working EdaenAIDSe08/p/19CIJUwLerQm6Vqwo3- with children. Pupils submitted their own design kEybi_3EoECITS/edit ideas and over 100 of the new visors were delivered to Ty Hafan Children's Hospice this week. PwC – Tech We Can - https://sites.google.com/d/1jotu5a7my4qnjdzphhzmed aenaidse08/p/19cijuwlerqm6vqwo3- Staff are also transforming unwanted duvets into keybi_3eoecits/edit scrubs bags and the school have set up an online ordering system to manage the demand. FOLLOW US CONTACT US [email protected] 02920 788565 .