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Welcome to SCE's Mobility Research cLc
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This SCEcLc area holds resources and working information for SCE's ongoing work to improve and support pupils' experiences of moving schools.
Follow the links below to view mobility resources and join in our discussion forums.
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Working with Others to Mitigate Mobility
The Mitigating Mobility Project Team work closely with a number of other organisations which have a similar interest in the education and welfare of Service Children. Two of these are Childrens Education Advisory Service (CEAS) and Service Children in State Schools (SCISS). Find below a brief outline of the nature of these two organisations and a link to their own websites.
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CEAS
Children's Education Advisory Service was established to provide information and support to MOD staff on the education of their children.
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SCISS
The Service Children in State Schools (SCISS) Working Group was set up at the request of the DfES to look into the issues and concerns, including mobility and funding, that were being raised by Headteachers of state schools with Service children in the United Kingdom. |
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Please share your experiences and views of mobility, in the forums below.
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Visit the Service Schools Mobility Toolkit to find out more about how SCE schools are dedicated to smoothing the transition of Service Children between schools and celebrate with our pupils the positive effects of mobility.
Take a tour around our virtual SCE school to locate all SCE schools around the world, and discover more about them through their websites and prospectuses.
An overview of the curriculum and how it is applied in practice is available as is an introduction to assessment procedures.
Watch videos of some of our children sharing their own personal experiences of preparing to leave or arrive at their school, and find out what helps them to settle into their new surroundings.
With links to documents and resources, and to our partners in the UK, as well as recent news and events, the Mobility Toolkit holds a wealth of information which is intended to be useful for pupils, parents and teachers alike.
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03.12 PFS Mobility DVDs 03.12
Anne Wilson and Pupil and Family Services have produced two DVDs with a focus on mobility. The DVDs address the needs and requirements of the families involved in the move and the professionals who work with the children in school.
All SCE schools should have copies of the DVDs in school, or you can follow the links below to watch them on line.
If you have any queries or comments about the content of the DVDs, please write to Anne Wilson directly at anne.wilson@sceschools.com
08.11 SCSN Autumn Newsletter and Conference 08.11
Joy O'Neill has shared with us again the most recent copy of the Service Children Support Network newsletter for Autumn 2011. This term's edition includes reports on the work of SeeSaw on supporting bereaved children in the classroom, information about and a sneak previoew of the winners of the art competition to design a calendar and information about the upcoming SCSN Conference.
The conference is to take place on Monday 7th November - a full programme can be found below.
There is also further information about the service SCSN provide offering training in schools.
If you require any further information about any of these articles or events, please contact joy directly at:
contact@servicechildrensupportnetwork.com
07.11 SCSN Annual Conference 07.11
This year's SCSN conference titled 'Service Children and the impacts of Operational Deployments' will be held on Monday 7th November 9.00am – 4.30pm
The conference aims to educate health, welfare and educational professionals who will be working with Service Children and their families throughout the Deployment Cycle.
There will be a number of guest speakers and workshops covering:
For more information please email contact@servicechildrensupportnetwork.com.
07.11 SCSN Passport Resource 07.11
'My Passport' is a resource developed by the Buckinghamshire County Council Transition Support Team and Educational Psychology Service to help primary school children settle quickly into a new school. It is based around a 'workbook' of 6 individual units. The first is designed to be completed by the child at home before they arrive, the following four units during the first week of school and the sixth unit is a review module to be completed with the child at the end of week two.
Although the passport, which was trialled over an 18 month period at Halton School in Buckinghamshire, was primarily designed with Service children in mind, it would be equally suitable for all high-mobility children. The passport comes with a CD-Rom and is supported by the provision of a full training package which can be delivered in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, or as inset training in your own County. For more details contact TST@buckscc.gov.uk
06.11 Service Children Support Network : Summer Newsletter 06.11
SCSN have published their summer newletter. With 'Sharing best practice to support Service Children' as their aim, a range of contributions from a variety of members are available in this issue, including:
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An overview of the work of the Army Children Archive
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A profile of the RAF Families Federation
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Coping with deployment at RAF Benson Primary School
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An outline of teh seminar given by Professor William Yule on PTSD and mental health issues affecting service families
To access the newsletter, click below. Contact details are available in the newsletter, and the website is now live.
05.11 OFSTED's report on Children in Service Families 05.11
OFSTED have just released their report which used surveys of selected schools serving Service Children and examines the quality of provision and outcomes for children and young people who are in families of Service personnel whether living in England or abroad. In particular, it looks at the support provided by a sample of schools, local authorities and other agencies to enable children and their families to cope with the experience of geographical mobility and the deployment of family members who are serving within the Armed Forces.
Read the full report or the summary of findings below:
03.11 SCSN Website goes Live! 03.11
The SCSN website is now live, click on the image to access the site.
03.11 Service Children Support Network : Spring Newsletter 03.11
SCSN have published their Spring Newletter. With 'Sharing best practice to support Service Children' as their aim, a range of contributions from a variety of members are available in this issue, including:
- 'Gone but not forgotten' - a recount of a class visit to Chiltern Woodland Burial Park arranged by the Child Bereavement Charity,
- Profiles of SSafa Forces Help, HIVE officers and welfare support in school,
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A recap of a recent event held by the Military Child Education Coalition (A US based non-profit organisation formed to provide assistance with all aspects of education and family support for the Armed Forces of the USA,
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Information about and examples of how the Pupil Premium has been spent in schools.
To access the newsletter, click below. Contact details are available in the newsletter, although please note that the website is still under construction and is not yet live (check back for news of its launch date).
03.11 Pupil voice forums in SCEcLc 03.11
Thank you to the staff and pupils at Robert Browning and Sir John Mogg Schools who have taken the time to access and contribute to the Pupil Voice forums. Included below are a s election of the children's responses in each of the different areas. If you would like the children in your school to participate, please visit the forums by clicking on the link below, or contact claire.margerison@sceschools.com.
03.11 HMS Heroes : A support network for the children of service families in Plymouth schools 03.11
A group of Plymouth schools which have a high number of children whose parents serve in the UK armed forces have been meeting since Spring 2009 to focus on raising attainment, achievement, attendance and aspiration to promote the social and emotional well being of children and young people from Service families. The plan included a range of initiatives to promote emotional health and well being to ensure pupils maintain their capacity to engage with learning particularly during times of family deployment.
From this group emerged HMS Heroes, a self-named Pupil Voice support network. The children, from both primary and secondary schools in Plymouth, meet monthly to devise and implement ideas to raise awareness of their needs, within their school community and beyond.
To access the report of the headteacher of Goosewell School, John Stephens, of the year's activities and planned future events for the group, and the HMS Heroes' Guide to Success, please follow the links below:
03.11 Using the cLc to support transition 03.11
Calthorpe Park School in Hampshire have been using their cLc to tackle the needs of students which arise during transition from Year 6 of primary school into Year 7 at secondary.
The Year 7 students have used the features of the cLc to present information about the curriculum and social events in school for prospective students, as well as setting up a forum to allow new students to ask questions about their new school which could be answered by existing students.
While this example tackles the natural transition at the end of the academic year into a new school, the model could easily be adapted to be used on a whole school, or even individual class level, to give SCE pupils and students the opportunity to have a ‘look in’ at the new school/class they will be joining at whichever point during the school year their move takes place.
Setting up an area such as this one would require students to focus on many different skills and competencies, and would lend itself to a short term or on-going project, a task for school councils perhaps or an assignment for ICT clubs.
If you already have something like this operating in your school, please let us know the details so that we can share your good practice with other SCE schools, or if you would like to have a go at setting one up and require some start-up assistance, please contact claire.margerison@sceschools.com.
Follow the link below to see how Calthorpe Park School have used their cLc to support transition:
02.11 Pupil voice forums in SCEcLc 02.11
A number of schools whose pupils are already actively using the cLc have been contacted with a request to give their pupils the opportunity to access a number of forums in the SCEcLc to give their pupils the opportunity to share their own thoughts, ideas and experiences of being a mobile Service Child.
It is hoped that schools will make time for the children to access these forums during lesson time in order to have the opportunity to discuss with the children how they feel about having to move schools (or be left behind in some instances) and what strategies the schools they have been in have in place to make their transition easier. There is also a place to identify the good things about the locations in which we live as a guide for new pupils coming into schools to look out for.
As examples of pupils' thoughts and opinions are entered, they will be shared here. If you would like to be involved in this project and your school has not yet been contacted, please contact claire.margerison@sceschools.com for more information and help with starting your contributions.
Follow the link below to the Pupil Mobility area of the SCEcLc:
02.11 “Future Proofing the Learning” 02.11
AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE FOR ALL SCHOOLS THAT SUPPORT THE LEARNING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM SERVICE FAMILIES
THURSDAY 23 JUNE 2011, URCHFONT MANOR, near Devizes
This event is being planned by the Wiltshire SCISS (Service Children in State Schools) group and will address relevant, significant and important issues related to schools that support children and young people from service families.
The day will include:
- Keynote speaker: Mick Waters, Professor of Education at Wolverhampton University and President of the Curriculum Foundation, speaking on designing an effective curriculum for the mobile learner
- A representative from the DFE speaking on practicalities and implications of the Pupil Premium including schools’ accountability
- Updates from the Children’s Education and Advisory Service (CEAS)
- Input from The Army Welfare Officer Team
- Ideas from Wiltshire schools sharing innovative best practice
For more information about the day, please contact :
Jan Chambers, on behalf of the Wiltshire SCISS Group
Wiltshire LA General Primary Adviser
Tel: 01225 793349
Mobile: 07773 385547
Resources from the day should be made available on these pages after the event.
01.11 North Yorkshire Mobility Information Sharing Day 01.11
The North Yorkshire County Council Mobility Information Sharing Day was held on 28th January 2011. It was an opportunity to hear about the work of the project in the last 12 months and to gain a greater appreciation of the impact that Service lifestyle can have on a child’s well-being and development, through case studies and presentations of good practice. The information provided by all involved enabled reflection on possible work-streams for the continuation of the project during 2011
To access the materials presented on the day, please follow the link below.
12.10 Weser School Welcome Booklet 12.10
A warm welcome from Weser School
When Weser School were notified by SCE's Inclusion Development Support Team that a child was joining them from another SCE school who was feeling wary about his move of home and school, the whole class wrote letters of welcome to the child in an effort to ease the worry of starting his new school, so that he would know a little bit about his new classmates and the sorts of things he could expect to see and do at Weser School when he arrived.
This is a really lovely example, on an extended scale, of one of the many different ways SCE schools attempt to smooth Service Children's transition from one school to another.
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11.10 North Yorkshire County Council Newsletter and Information Booklet 11.10
Thanks to the hard and continuing work of teachers in schools and the input of the advisory team, North Yorkshire County Council is now recognised nationally as being a leader in the field in raising the profile and achievement of service pupils.
Follow the links below to access the 2010 Annual Newsletter for Schools with Pupils from Service Families which has reviews and reflections of the North Yorkshire / Wiltshire ‘Schools with Service Pupils’ Partnership Project. Also, the Authorities latest information leaflet Helping us to help you and your family: Guidance for Armed Forces’ parents in helping schools support their children at times of exercise, deployment or posting highlights the importance of sharing information between home and the school.
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11.10 North Yorkshire County Council 2011 Information Sharing Day 11.10
Schools with Pupils of Service Families - Information Sharing Day
Following last year’s highly successful conference for staff with an interest in the education and welfare of pupils of Armed Forces personnel, a second event will be held this year by North Yorkshire County Council.
The day will have three key aims:
- To find out about the work of the LA’s Schools with Pupils of Service Families project 2010
- To gain a greater appreciation of the impact that Service lifestyle can have on a child’s well-being and development, through case studies and presentations of good practice
- To reflect on possible work-streams for the project during
For an outline of the day’s content, see the agenda below, for more information, please contact Matt.Blyton@northyorks.gov.uk
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11.10 11.10
Evaluating Policy and Practice:
The Process of designing and implementing a one-year Pilot Project to support
Service Children at Halton School during periods of Mobility and Parental Deployment.
In 2009, Halton School in Buckinghamshire began a ‘Mobility Project’ in response to Joy ‘Neill’s question “What would an effective ‘Transition and Induction’ Policy look like in relation to Service Children at Halton School?”. Pupils, parents, staff and governors discussed the issues that arose from ‘Transition and Parental Deployment’.
As a result, a twelve-month pilot project to establish and maintain the appointment of a Mobility Co-ordinator to work specifically with Service Children and their families both at Halton School and within the wider local area in an outreach capacity was undertaken.
The purpose of Joy’s new Research Project is to evaluate the impact on children and their families of this one-year ‘Mobility Pilot Project’.
Joy O Neill's Research Project
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01.10 North Yorkshire Information Sharing Day 21st January 2010 01.10
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For the full range of materials and resources from the NYCC Information Sharing day, click the link below:
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09.09 Individual e-record 09.09
Matt Blyton (General Adviser, North Yorkshire), has provided an example of the individual e-record the schools in his region are using to transfer assessment data when children move from one class or one school to another. The record is intended to give an overall and concise location for easily accessible and updateable assessment data. The information included should allow easy trackinig of a child's progress as well as any special or additional needs the child may have.
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07.09 DCSF guidance on meeting the needs of children from service families with SEN 07.09
To read the guidance to schools and Local Authorities that the DCSF (England) has produced, follow the links below.
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2009-10 Wiltshire Mobility Information Sharing Days - Tuesday 7th July & Tues 3rd November 2009
To access the presentations used on this day at Urchfont Manor - attended by colleagues from Wiltshire, North Yorkshire, SCE and CEAS - follow the link below.
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07.09 Initial analysis of service children's comparable 07.09
attainment using new PLASC marker
The service children field was included on the Annual School Census for the first time in 2008. The analysis uses data taken from the National Pupil Database for pupils in maintained mainstream schools in England. This note looks at pupil numbers, types of establishment attended, SEN status, English as an additional language status, FSM prevalence, IDACI quartile, identification of gifted and talented, ethnicity and levels of attainment of service children. For all of these factors service children are compared to all other children.
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04.09 Mobility Work group 04.09
The Mobility Working Group met for a second time on Thursday 23rd April to discuss actions so far and make further plans to enable the negative affects of mobility to be negated while the positive outcomes are celebrated.
All information and materials from these meetings will be available for all to view by following the link below. If you are interested in joining the Mobility Working Group, please contact mike.chislett@sceschools.comfor further information about getting involved.
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03.09 SCE heads visit North Yorkshire 03.09
Ten SCE heads and senior staff visited North Yorkshire on 21 and 22 January. North Yorkshire's Service Schools Working Party had invited SCE colleagues to an 'Information Sharing Day' at Ripon Racecourse, where a range of approaches and ideas from North Yorkshire and SCE were shared. Among the highlights were several Year 6 children from Linton on Ouse whose readings explored the theme of 'friends moving on'.
During the day beforehand, the SCE travellers had visited a variety of North Yorkshire's schools, serving populations as diverse as RAF Leeming and Catterick Garrison. These proved highly valuable and many examples of good practice were celebrated.' Besides staff from Cyprus and Gibraltar, the longest journey was made by the head and curriculum leader from Hornbill School in Brunei. This school caters for Nepali speaking children of Gurkha soldiers; significant numbers of whom now also attend schools in and around Catterick.
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01.09 SCE Pupil Mobility Room 01.09
The Mobility Working Group have created an SCE Pupil Mobility cLc designed for all pupils affected by mobility to have a place to share their thoughts, feelings and ideas about the mobility process.
The room has been set up with forums asking for children's experiences of arriving in school, settling into school and leaving school. The hope is that we can learn directly from the children how they feel their movements from one school to another are managed and pick up on those things we do that help a child settle more quickly or feel more prepared for leaving.
If you would like access to this room, or would like the children in your school to participate in the forums, please contact claire.margerison@sceschools.com. You may choose to use this only with children going through transition at this time, or open it up to all of the pupils in your school - the thoughts and feelings of those children who do not move so often/at all are equally valued and informative. | |
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12.08 Mobility Working Group 12.08
The first meeting of the Mobility Working Group took place on Monday 15th December. The main purpose of the meeting was to share ideas and begin planning for the embedding of the work undertaken by SCE schools involved in mitigating mobility over the last couple of years.
In particular, there was a focus on induction for all who work in our schools and developing key partnerships between our schools and those in the UK serving service children.
All information and materials from these meetings will be available for all to view by following the link below. If you are interested in joining the Mobility Working Group it is not too late! Please contact mike.chislett@sceschools.comfor further information about getting involved.
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12.08 Mobility Toolkit 12.08
With only one or two areas left to complete, there is still time for you to get in touch to have resources or materials you use in your school included in the toolkit. If you have already contributed to the toolkit, please could you check that we have the most current version of any materials you have shared with us, and send on any replacements as required to claire.margerison@sceschools.com.
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12.08 The VLE and Mobility 12.08
A number of schools across SCE have been using a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), seated inside the SCE GfL, to enhance learning and teaching in the classroom.
A range of subjects and topics have been taught, including:
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the Tudors - KS2 history,
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rivers - KS2 geography,
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all about me - FS2 science,
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design a car for a superhero - KS1 design technology,
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the Victorians - KS2 history,
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question of the work - KS2 G&T,
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micro-organisms - KS2 science,
The children have been given their own accounts and login details which provide them with a 'My Folder' work space for creating, saving and uploading resources as well as a 'My Portfolio' area for best work.
All those involved in this project have seen the immediate benefits of working in this online area as the links with home have been clearly forged, as well as giving the opportunity for parents deployed away from home to look in at their child's work to see how they are getting on and offer help from afar.
The 'My Portfolio' tool allows children to create and keep a copy of their best work which will stay active for as long as they are in an SCE school, and is a really convenient first point of contact for teachers when a new child arrives in the class without their 'brown envelope' of previous work. The portfolio is totally portable should the pupil leave SCE.
The Mobility Working Group are in the process of extending the use of the tools in the VLE with children, as we are setting up an SCE Pupil Mobility Room which will allow children from across SCE to contribute to forums to identify and share their own thoughts and feelings during times of mobility, and hopefully help other children with similar concerns or issues.
All of these resources, and more, will be available from September when the new provider Uniservity, takes over the VLE contract.
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12.08 Deployment Materials 12.08
The Pupil and Family Services department have created a range of resources to address the issues which can arise when a family member is deployed. The materials include a number of PowerPoint presentations for use in school for different audiences.
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12.08 SCE Pupil Admission Form 12.08
The SCE wide pupil admission form is now available to view and download electronically in pdf format. Click on the links below to view the pages from the form.
To receive a hardcopy of the Pupil Admission Pack, please contact Mrs Marie Hotham at Headquarters SCE, BFPO 40 (telephone 0049 2161 908 2322 or Wegberg Military 2322).
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11.08 SCISS Handbook 11.08
The SCISS Handbook is now available to view. Click on the link below or go to thewebsite. The handbook is intended to be a supportive resource, written largely by practitioners in schools for their peers. It is intended to be interactive in the sense that it can be amended to incorporate suggestions to improve the Handbook, examples of good practice from users and used to facilitate communication between schools and local authorities with similar needs.
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09.08 Service Schools Mobility toolkit 09.08
This resource aims to show the good practice in place in SCE schools to help ensure the smooth transition of Service Children from one school to another.
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our UK partners, including NCSL, CEAS and SCISS,
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current research and workshop materials on mobility,
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SCE's Pupil Mobility Guidance booklet,
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a virtual SCE school with interviews with SCE staff and children, examples of learning and teaching practice and theory.
The Mobility Toolkit is a non-static resource which we intend to keep adding to in order to reflect current good practice and ideas. If you have any feedback about the Toolkit as it is now, or ideas of what it should include in the future, please use the 'Contact Us' tool in the website, or contact
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09.08 Positive Results from Cyprus/North Yokshire Mobility Conference 09.08
Former SCE consultant Matt Blyton, now working for NYCC, is continuing his work focussing on ensuring smooth transition for pupils into and out of SCE schools. Following the very successful mobility conference Matt organised in Cyprus earlier this year, with a number of UK headteachers and senior leaders visiting Cyprus to investigate the good practice evident in SCE schools, in his new role in the UK, Matt has seen the rollout of a new individual record sheet which all children will have in their 'moving packs' when leaving a school in Catterick Garrison:
"I was delighted to see that as a direct result of discussions with Episcopi Primary, the Headteachers that visited Cyprus last term went away and created an individual record sheet summarising all key performance data with a view to this being the top sheet of records that transfer with children as they leave their schools. Following consultation, and some successful trialing (including with Episkopi) this summary sheet has now been adopted by all the Catterick Garrison primaries."
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09.08 North Yorkshire County Council Annual Mitigating Mobility Newsletter 09.08
Heather Bell, Senior Adviser with NYCC, has produced their first Mitigating Mobility newsletter. It includes information about the aims and activities of the Core Group, Curriculum Design Group and the School Leadership Group, in addition to features on the recent collaborative conference held in Cyprus (organised by Matt Blyton) and the impending SCISS handbook.
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06.08 LDR Magazine Article on Mobility 06.08
The June issue of LDR Magazine, the online magazine for School Leaders has an article relating to the support and advice now available to help school leaders support 'frequent flyer' pupils who change schools regularly.
The positive way SCE schools deal with mobility and the current resources held in both this room and on the website of our associates at the National College of School Leadership (NCSL) in Nottingham are mentioned, as is the online resource which the Mobility Group are currently preparing for launch, the Mobility Toolkit.
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05.08 Pupil mobility - sharing good practice: a joint SCE / Catterick Garrison project 05.08
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.
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04.08 Guidance on Pupil Mobility 04.08
The policies and guidance detailed in this document are intended to assist students, their parents/carers, teaching and administrative staff in ensuring that the experience of moving schools is positive and life-enhancing.
This document focuses on movement between schools at non-standard times, defined as other than
The principles and practices will also apply, however, to planned and routine school movements between year groups and key stages, even when the students residence has not changed.
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04.08 CEAS Moving School Pack 04.08
For a selection of pages taken from the three booklets produced by CEAS to aid parents, pupils and schools with a smooth transition from one school to the next, click on the link below.
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03.08 SCE and NCSL Mobility Conference Materials 03.08
Thank you to all those who attended the Mobilty Conference at NCSL on Tuesday 4th March, making it such a success.
Please click on the links below to access the presentations and any other materials used in the Key Note Speeches and the Workshops. Please contribute any thoughts or reflections from the conference in our forum.
Any links which aren't yet live will be activated as soon as possible.
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02.08 Marlborough School Making Links with Ripon Holy Trinity J&I School 02.08
Ahead of the closure of Marlborough Barracks in Osnabruck Garrison this December, and of Marlborough School at the end of the academic year, the headteachers of the Junior and Infant Schools in Ripon, North Yorkshire, where many of the pupils will move to, have been to visit Marlborough School this week.
Malcolm Price and Janice Denley have been hosted by Annwen Parry, to take the opportunity to meet the children and parents, and share information about their new school with them.
BFBS Radio One DJ Anthony Ballard interviewed all those involved, (with some technical difficulties!). To hear the broadcast from Tuesday 26th February, click below.
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01.08 School Prospectuses 01.08
PLEASE NOTE _ ALL OF THESE LINKS ARE DUE TO BE UPDATED IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS - IF THE LINK IS NOT YET ESTABLISHED, PLEASE CHECK BACK SHORTLY OR EMAIL claire.margerison@sceschools.com
Thank you to those schools who replied to a recent request to all SCE schools for a copy of their school prospectus/brochure/booklet for inclusion in the forthcoming Mobility Toolkit (currently being written). Find below links to the current prospectuses which, along with a school website, are the first introduction to a school, its environment and its ethos, accessed by prospective new pupils, parents and staff.
If your school name is not highlighted, please forward a copy of your prospectus to claire.margerison@sceschools.comso that it can be included here and in our Mobility Toolkit.
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12.07 Educational Psychology and Child Guidance Service12.07
Anne Ballinger, Area Educational Psychologist, Cyprus, has produced information for a range of audiences, about the effects of mobility on Service Children.
The leaflet, slideshow presentation and text for teachers present findings from research into the effects of mobility on Service Children, and explore the benefits as well as the difficulties of being a mobile learner.
Anne also gives her top ten tips for families to allow for successful leaving and then settling in a new location.
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11.07 'Friends matter' in school moves 11.07
"Children who move to secondary schools without their friends can struggle to settle in", so says Susie Weller in her recent research.
For a brief overview of the research on the BBC news website, follow the link, or for a more detailed outline of the research and access to the full report, use the Economic and Social Research Council website.
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09.07 Mitigating Mobility Project Meeting 09.07
On Thursday September 19th 2007, the Mitigating Mobility Group met up with our CEAS and NCSL colleagues in London to discuss our continued efforts to ensure a smooth transition for SCE pupils during their school career. Our two main topics for the meeting were the creation of a Mobility Toolkit and the mobility conference to be hosted by NCSL in Nottingham next year.
For full minutes of the meeting and a plan for future action resulting from it, please click below.
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06.07 Mitigating Moblity Project Update and 06.07
SCE/National College for School Leadership Seminar 2008
This letter, from Mike Chislett to all SCE Headteachers, summarises SCE's progress following the post-Ofsted plan for Mobility and gives details of resources within SCEGfL and NCSL's Talk2Learn web-sites. It also gives early notice of SCE/NCSL's joint seminar in Nottingham on 4th March 2008.
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05.07 Shropshire Pupil's Experience of Mobility 05.07
Louise Shepard and Ron Risbridger, from Shropshire County Council's Educational Psychology Service, have published the results of their study into the thoughts and feelings of Service Children arriving at a number Shropshire schools. They questioned pupils from Key Stages One, Two and Three on a range of issues surrounding their move.
Thanks to SCISS member Hilary Alcock for sharing this report with us.
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05.07 MM2 Meeting - Wednesday 25th April 2007 05.07
The Mitigating Mobility 2 Project Group met this week with representatives from SCE, SCISS, CEAS and NCSL. Among other items on the agenda were:
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Review of last project meeting
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Ideas for electronic mobility toolkit
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Mobility Conference in March 2008
Follow the link below to read the full minutes of the meeting.
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05.07 LSA Conference : Pupil Mobility Presentation 05.07
Anne Wilson, Senior Educational Pychologist, and Nigel Coe, Mobility LSA, have presented their work on the level of mobility in SCE's Cyprus schools, and commented on the effect it has on pupils. They have illustrated the Transition Experience Model and given examples of the outcome of each stage.
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05.07 Mobility Co-ordinators 05.07
Nigel Coe has shared with us the presentation he gave to LSAs detailing his role as the Mobility LSA at Akrotiri School, Cyprus. Nigel is the initial point of contact for all families whose children are due to start at Akrotiri School; he follows the children's progress from their entry to the school, through their settling in period and works with them again to help prepare them for leaving the school.
His presentation includes sample checklists, examples of displays and other useful information for parents and children starting their new school.
If you are responsible for mobility in your school, please contact claire.margerison@sceschools.comwith any examples of what you do to help mitigate mobility issues, so that all the good practice which is taking place in SCE schools can be shared with others both in SCE and schools in the UK through our associate NCSL website.
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04.07 Akrotiri School Website 04.07
Akrotiri School have launched their new web site, with among other things, information about the school, its location and practical information for children and parents.
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04.07 Pupil Transfer Report 04.07
SCE's Pupil Transfer report which contains agreed advice and policy regarding records and data transfer has just been released. It has information about transfer from SCE schools to Local Authority maintained schools in the UK, CEAS contact details and transfer information for sending and receiving schools.
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MM2 Meeting Wednesday 17th January 2007
The Mitigating Mobility 2 Project Group met up as planned this week with representatives from SCE, SCISS, CEAS, SP-POL and DFES. Among other items on the agenda were:
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Mobility v. Attainment
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Mobility and Deployment Issues and Research
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Akrotiri project report
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NCSL Talk2Learn (T2L) community
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SCISS issues and proposed mobility guidance
Follow the links below to read the full minutes of the meeting, and see the power point displays presented there.
Please contribute any thoughts or responses to what you read here in the open forum.
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Does the number of schools attended affect children's attainment or achievement?
Click below to see some of the results of Gruffydd Thomas' (Strategic Information Manager, SCE), research into the above question. More details to follow shortly, but the data shown in Gruff's presentation certainly give plenty to think about.
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House of Commons Defence Committee Report : Educating Service Children
Released on 4th September 2006, the report was commisioned to examine Service Schools overseas and the performance of SCE with a joint focus on issues which affect Service children in UK schools.
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DFES School Admission Cose and School Admission Appeals Code
consultation documents
Jeremy Watt, the SCISS representative member of our Mobility Project working group, has brought to our attention the consultation copies of the DFES School Admission Code and the School Admission Appeals Code.
The Codes and regulations will come into force in February 2007, subject to this consultation and the approval of Parliament. The School Admissions Code will first affect school admissions for September 2008 (including arrangements determined for 2008) but the School Admission Appeals Code will come into effect for appeals held from the date it comes into force.
As many Service Families have been adversely affected by admission policies for schools on their return to the UK after posting, this is an area of consultation which is particularly relevant within the SCE community and particularly of concern for our mobility project.
We would welcome any thoughts or opinions you have to make on this subject in our open forum, but please follow the links below to the DFES website to contribute directly to them.
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A focus on transition in special schools
The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) sponsors 11 Regional SEN Partnerships that cover all local authorities in England. Each partnership brings together groups of local authorities, health, social services and the private and voluntary sectors. The overall aim of the partnerships is to improve consistency in the quality and provision for pupils with special educational needs through collaborative planning and working. One of the areas of focus for the Eastern Region SEN Partnership was transition.
The working group involved in this area contacted Special Schools in their region to identify transition policies and practices which are currently in force, and have shared their findings with us for publication here. While this research, and its results, are primarily targeted for use with pupils and families of these Special Schools, there are obvious crossovers of good practice into Mainstream and SCE schools.
Thanks to Jenny Barker for sharing her group's work with us.
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Lambeth Mobility Studies
Steve Strand (Institute of Education, University of Warwick) and Feyisa Demie (Lambeth Education) undertook two studies of the association between pupil mobility and attainment in national tests and examinations in an inner London borough, one in Primary Schools and the second in Secondary Schools.
Follow the links below to read the full reports.
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