Professionals

Powerful film unlocks opportunities to support care experienced young people

Professionals working with Sutton’s children looked after had the opportunity to view the critically acclaimed short film ‘Be-Longing’ directed by Mike McKenzie. Sutton Virtual School staff who watched the film were impressed at the emotional and poignant story of a child in care. The film skilfully challenges professionals to continually consider the impact of decision […]

Sutton VS launches ESOL Summer School 2021

We are excited to announce that this year Sutton Virtual School will be running an ESOL Summer School, hosted by Just Learn, for our Sutton UASC. We would like to prioritise students whose English is still at a basic level but numbers permitting, we will try to accommodate any UASC that wishes to take part. […]

Sutton’s children gain the benefits of a financial education

Children under the care of Sutton are benefitting from access to high quality financial education to help them develop the necessary skills and understanding to support them financially in their future adult lives. The need to for children in care to receive financial education was recently highlighted by Vicky Ford MP when she said, “Care […]

Strength & Difficulty Questionnaires

Strength and Difficultly Questionnaires (SDQ) are used in Personal Education Plan (PEP) meetings to help identify appropriate support for both education and wellbeing. Please complete the appropriate form below and return to the CLA Education Advisor in advance of the PEP meeting. The final SDQ scores will be made available for discussion at the PEP […]

Trauma & Executive Function Series

Executive function is an umbrella term for the interrelated cognitive processes involved in executing a task. It helps to monitor and control our thoughts and actions. Some children and young people may have had adverse experiences in their childhood resulting in trauma and attachment difficulties. This can result in a difficulty in the development of […]

Good News Stories – 2021

Sutton Virtual School now working to support Children with a Social Worker On 1st September all Virtual Schools in England received new duties related to Children with a Social Worker. At Sutton Virtual School we are so excited about the opportunity to work with this group of young people in addition to the work we […]

Education Untapped podcast

The Education Untapped podcast features episodes on a range of educational topics

Archive News

Opportunities with The Prince’s Trust in August 2021 Sutton VS launches ESOL Summer School 2021 London Learning Consortium – latest traineeship groups CiCC Champions Recruitment Campaign Palace For Life Foundation – Traineeship Programme for NEETs Good News Stories -2020 Sutton VS achieves record GCSE results 2020 COVID-19 support Record Exam Results 2020 Latest Update from […]

The Sound of The Virtual School

Over the half term Sutton Virtual School and Sutton Music Service collaborated and ran our first Beginners Producing Music Sessions! It was great to see the students engaging so well with the sessions. Over the three day course, students learned how to use the Sound Trap software by first looking at the basics, creating a […]

The Education of Children Looked After: Sutton Virtual School Annual Report 2020

The Virtual School Annual Report describes how Sutton Virtual School works closely with foster carers, social workers and schools to help improve the education of our Children Looked After. In order to see the other ways in which Sutton’s Children Looked After have been supported, watch the short summary video (https://youtu.be/jmDVLdEVzck ) Sutton’s Children Looked […]