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January 27, 2005
Young Sports Achievers Scheme: Nomination Form
The Gateshead Schools Young Sports Achievers Scheme is designed to encourage and recognise sporting achievement in all Gateshead schools.
Selection will be based on candidates sporting ACHIEVEMENT and PROGRESS both within and outside school over the previous 12 months, for the Young Sports Achiever and Team Award.
Nominations from young disabled sports people are encouraged.
Download Nomination Form (PDF: 896KB)
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Gateshead School Council Guidelines
A school council is a visible structure that can be used to engage young people and other members of the school community in decision-making.
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Secondary Physical Education Award: Porfolio Document
Record of Achievement - Portfolio
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Primary Physical Education Award: Porfolio Document
Record of Achievement - Portfolio Review
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Secondary Physical Education Award: Invitation
I invite your school to register and work towards gaining a Gateshead Secondary Physical Education Award during 2004-2005.
As you will be aware 'Sportsmark Award' has been discontinued since last summer. I hope that you will take this opportunity to collect evidence of good practice in physical education and school sport for this academic year and apply for an award.
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Physical Education and Sport Newsletter #16: Spring Term 2005
I hope that this newsletter will help to keep you informed of the many local regional and national physical education and sport initiatives.
2004, has been an extremely important year - not only as the European Year of Education through Sport but the year in which the National
Physical Education and School Sport Professional Development Programme (NPESSPDP) was launched. It was also the year that the School Sports Co-ordinator Partnership Development programmes were extended to involve all Secondary Schools and their feeder primary
schools.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information or inform me of any sporting events that your school is involved in, in order to share good practice.
Wishing you a successful sporting year.
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Healthy Schools Newsletter #16: Spring Term 2005
Dear PSHE & C Healthy School Co-ordinator
I trust that you have enjoyed the festive season and are back and
ready for another busy - 'Health Promoting Year'.
This newsletter includes many success stories and achievements gained during the autumn term. It also contains information about events planned for the spring and summer term during 2005.
These include:-
Study support group meetings, and workshops to support teachers working to meet GHSA themes eg.
- Citizenship
- Sex & Relationship Education (SRE)
- Drugs Alcohol and Tobacco
- Safety
- Environmental Challenge/ Eco School Award
- Healthy Eating
- Physical Activity
- Emotional Health and Well Being - including Anti-Bullying Training
Regional NHSP - conference
Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information or inform me of any health events that your schools are involved in, in order to share good practice.
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Citizenship Newsletter #10: January 2005
Welcome to the newsletter which aims to support the teachers and the teaching of citizenship in Gateshead schools.
The Healthy Schools and Citizenship team would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of teachers in Gateshead and congratulate them on their many successes, not only in establishing citizenship effectively in their schools, but for providing their pupils and students with so many exciting and valuable experiences.
We are happy to report on some of our schools activities in this newsletter and would like to hear from any school who would like to share something they have done with others.
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January 21, 2005
Every Child Matters: Conference
For the attention of all Head Teachers and PSHE&C Healthy School
Co-ordinators
EVERY CHILD MATTERS
CHANGE FOR CHILDREN NORTH EAST: HEALTHY SCHOOLS MAKING THE LINKS
CONFERENCE MONDAY 7th MARCH 2005, 9.30 - 3.30pm
The conference will demonstrate the health and education context for the National Healthy School programme in the North East, jointly hosted by Government Office for the North East, National Healthy School Programme and the Children & Young People's Forum, a recently established group of regional staff working on the children and young people's agenda.
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January 19, 2005
Smoke Free School Awards
Smoke Free School Award applications due in to Claire Mawson by February 7th 2005.
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Midday Supervision Training
Training for Midday Supervisors is available to schools. Training consists of Behaviour Theory; Dining Hall rules; Dealing with confrontation; Managing Movement and Playground Issues and a separate Playground Games session.
For more information contact Carole Robson Tel 433867.
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Environmental Challenge
Environmental Challenge - School based projects should tackle one of the following areas of study:-
Air quality and noise management
Biodiversity
Energy conservation
Sustainable transport
Waste management
Projects to be completed by Friday 18th March 2005.
Contact Carole Robson Tel 4338671.
Next ECO Schools Support Group Meeting is 9th March 2005, 4.15-5.30at Dryden.
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S.H.A.R.E.
Primary schools pilot SHARE (Sex,Health & Relationships Education) programme.
In January, 8 Gateshead primary schools signed up to launch the SHARE programme to develop sex & relationships education in schools.
The aim of this programme is intended to support teachers, inform young people and encourage parents to share responsibility in teaching of health education.
How will it work?
The SHARE programme is intended to provide a suitable framework to deliver sex & relationships education in an age appropriate context.
Teachers are encouraged to develop a group of fictional characters, that will be central to the delivery of this pilot 'sex & relationships education' programme.
The characters can be developed so that they share similar experiences to the children who are learning about them. They can grow together, tackle age approriate issues and encounter similar life-style and decision-making problems.
By using the characters, pupils will be able to learn more about aspects of SHARE, as teachers use more case studies, stories and cross curricular links to promote knowledge and understanding of 'sex & relationships' and it key themes in a sensitive, creative and informative manner.
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January 18, 2005
Young People in Gateshead 2004: Health Related Behaviour Survey
Health Related Behaviour Survey Summary Report
The 2004, HRB survey summary report are the results of the compilation of data collected from a sample of primary and secondary pupils in Gateshead. The work was funded by the Department of Health through the shared Primary Fund with support of the Local Government Office and the Health Development Agency.
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Health and Physical Education and Sports Initiatives
This document outlines a wide range of local and national strategies - initiatives which contribute to �School Improvement� and �Raising Educational Standards�. The initiatives are priorities within the Gateshead LEA Education Development Plan. Ofsted Inspection reports regularly highlight the benefits and value of involvement in whole school initiatives which help to raise educational achievement.
The initiatives complement the many other government - national strategies including Literacy, Numeracy and ICT.
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