Keeping children safe
Education Safeguarding Team attend Sutton’s White Ribbon Event 2023
On Friday 24th November 2023, the Education Safeguarding Team attended Sutton Council’s White Ribbon Event at Shinner and Sudtone. Sutton Council, with the support of various partners, held a high street event to raise awareness of the White Ribbon campaign to end male violence against women and girls. ‘People need to know that this type […]Read more on Education Safeguarding Team attend Sutton’s White Ribbon Event 2023
Cognus Education Safeguarding Team Deliver DSL New to Role Training at Cantium House
Being a new academic year, school’s often welcome several new staff members to their team. Some may not be new to borough, but they are certainly new to specific roles. On 18th October 2023, the Education Safeguarding Team delivered DSL New to Role training to 28 new safeguarding leads. It was so useful to meet […]Read more on Cognus Education Safeguarding Team Deliver DSL New to Role Training at Cantium House
ePEP
We are pleased to announce that the updates to the Sutton Virtual School PEP document are now live. We have designed the new PEP with input from designated teachers, social workers, foster carers, young people and our CLA nurse team. Please ensure you familiarise yourself with the updates and watch the training video which takes […]National Advocacy Helpline – new contact details from 1st October 2023
Since 2015, the Department for Education has commissioned a national advocacy helpline to support the rights of children to be heard. Since 2017, this helpline has been delivered through Coram Voice’s ‘Always Heard’ service. We are writing to inform you that from 1st October, the national advocacy helpline service will be provided by the National […]Read more on National Advocacy Helpline – new contact details from 1st October 2023
Education Safeguarding Team attend event to raise awareness against Gang Violence and Knife Crime
On Wednesday 27th September 2023, the Education Safeguarding Team attended an event at The Limes College about knife crime, gang violence and restorative justice. Five minutes of madness…a lifetime of regret (The Chris Donovan Trust) At the event, a range of speakers bravely shared their stories with the realisation that although you cannot change what […]Cognus Educational Psychology Service host EBSA networking conference
Cognus Educational Psychology Service hosted an EBSA networking conference on Monday 18th September 2023 with staff from around 30 schools attending. With other professionals also in attendance there was space and opportunity for rich exchanges ! Alongside practical tasks to reflect on the approach settings are using to reduce and support EBSA pupils we had […]Read more on Cognus Educational Psychology Service host EBSA networking conference
Smart Targets
Every PEP must contain three SMART targets that are reviewed at the next PEP. There should always be a SMART target for English / literacy, maths and then another area eg attendance, homework, another subject. Where a child is in KS1 or KS2 there must be a writing SMART target as we know that statistically […]Sutton Virtual School and Children Looked After exam results outshine national averages
Sutton Virtual School’s Children Looked After have received their end of key stage assessments, which match the outstanding A Level and GCSE exam results already delivered by schools in the borough. We couldn’t be happier for our students. They have worked incredibly hard to achieve these results, which give them the confidence to go on […]Read more on Sutton Virtual School and Children Looked After exam results outshine national averages