Professionals

Designated Teacher Training

Sutton Virtual School is committed to ensuring Designated Teachers can receive access to high quality training to support them in their role. Please review the training options below to ensure that you have a strong understanding of your role as Designated Teacher and are actively engaging in training that will support Children Looked After […]

How Schools Can Support Children With Trauma

Schools are poised with the unique opportunity to thwart negative outcomes underpinned by a child’s exposure to trauma. Persons with lived experiences of ACE’s have recounted how appreciative they are for schools that were their safe heaven. It’s essential for schools to master the essence of what it means to take a trauma informed approach […]

The importance of being a Trauma Sensitive School

One off events or continuous events of trauma can impact on one’s physiological, psychological and developmental trajectories. Everyone has experienced some level of threat that tends to trigger fear and/or ability to feel safe and calm. Similarly, children may fall victims to adversities that can also shatter their sense of ability to feel safe and […]

Trauma and attachment

Executive Functions Training Week 1:Executive functions: Introduction Sasha-Gay Brown (Trauma and Attachment Advisor, Virtual School) and Dr Kate Payne (Educational Psychologist) introduce the executive function and trauma 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 […]

Post 16

Post 16 Online Learning MOOC and Free Online Courses from Coursera, edX, FutureLearn and other Top Providers and Universities in a wide range of categories and subjects. FUTURE LEARN Free to access 100s of courses in a wide variety of topics. OPEN UNIVERSITY FREE COURSES – A wide range of free online courses from the […]

ESOL

Online safeguarding reminder: As with all materials, especially videos, in order to help safeguard please ensure you preview before sharing websites and materials with your young person, to ensure content is appropriate. Headway English Online Beginner to advanced resources including grammar, vocabulary, everyday English and tests. British Council Online course with a free English test […]

Secondary

Online safeguarding reminder: As with all materials, especially videos, in order to help safeguard please ensure you preview before sharing websites and materials with your young person, to ensure content is appropriate. KS4 Support – GCSE English Literature Focus Revising with the help of a video can be really useful. There are lots of great […]

Online Learning

Online safeguarding reminder: As with all materials, especially videos, in order to help safeguard please ensure you preview before sharing websites and materials with your young person, to ensure content is appropriate. Maths http://www.mathschase.com/ What: Games – mathematics times tables Maths Chase is a completely free site where you can quickly test your times tables, […]

Independent Schools

Sutton Virtual School have worked with Homefield Prep an independent day school to put together a toolkit to support Independent Day and Boarding Schools to offer more bursary opportunities. The toolkit covers all areas for prior consideration by the school, the virtual school and local authority and outlines the key areas of responsibility. Please click […]

Preventing suspensions and exclusions

Sutton has developed a Local Area Graduated Response for Preventing Exclusions which has been in place since September 2019. The document details aims and principles, as well as a range of interventions and support available, which schools should use to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to prevent exclusion and to and provide early […]