Professionals

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 […]

Good News Stories -2020

Virtual Headteacher completes Virtual London Marathon Kate Leyshon, Sutton Virtual Headteacher completed the 26.2 miles of the Virtual London Marathon to raise awareness of the importance of healthy active lifestyles for our young people. Please watch the short video. The event raised over £1000 which will be used to put on some sports based enrichment […]

Social workers

Please find below our social worker handbook for social workers who are supporting Children Looked After, Previously Looked After and Children with a Social Worker to help promote educational outcomes. Sutton Virtual School Social Worker Handbook Practice Directive (Promoting the education of children with a social worker) CWSW Local Area Principles