NEWS
Whiston school teams up with national training provider to deliver intensive Covid catch-up support
A Merseyside school has teamed up with a national training provider to deliver intensive and immersive lessons to pupils to support them in catching-up as they return to the classroom. St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, in Whiston, has joined together with training provider PET-
Xi to deliver GCSE maths and English lessons to some of its Year 11 pupils who are most in need of additional support. PET-Xi is delivering its High-5 training programme to four groups of pupils over the next few weeks at the
school, which promises to move a minimum of 70 per cent of the group up by a grade in just five days and to increase their confidence. The move comes as pupils return to the classroom for the first time since December last year. The school is the first location PET-Xi has delivered face-to-face lessons at since the very first lockdown in
March last year after moving its programmes online. Helen Charnley, assistant headteacher at St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, said: “As part of
our Covid-19 Catch Up Strategy we took the decision to provide targeted academic support for identified pupils and pupils have found the PET-Xi maths and English sessions invaluable in identifying and closing gaps in learning. “The sessions are enjoyable, engaging and interactive but also academically rigorous and as a consequence pupils develop their knowledge, skills and
understanding and make accelerated progress. “Pupil voice is overwhelmingly positive and we will continue to work with PET-Xi in the future to support and challenge our pupils.”. u
https://www.pet-xi.co.uk/
Spire Healthcare starts search for up to
270 nurse degree apprentices The leading private healthcare provider, Spire Healthcare, is launching a new nurse degree apprenticeship programme in partnership with the University of Sunderland, with roles available across Spire’s 35 English hospitals. The nurse degree
apprenticeship is open to applicants at all stages of life, including school leavers, university graduates and people looking to retrain. The nurse degree apprenticeship is a work-based qualification providing apprentices with a combination of training and assessments via distancing learning and on-site placements applying practical knowledge. Placements will be delivered at a Spire hospital as well as at the local NHS trust and GP practice. Apprentices enjoy a flexible, work-based approach, combining university study and
workplace learning to develop new knowledge, skills and thinking whilst completing a degree. The benefit of the degree apprenticeship route is the ability to earn while learning, with a salary of between £18,000 and £21,000 depending on previous experience. Each nurse degree apprenticeship will complete the programme with a BSc degree.
Applications are open now, with successful applicants starting the programme in July 2021. Simone Bedford, Team Leader Professional Healthcare Practice and Midwifery at
University of Sunderland, said: “We are excited to be working with Spire Healthcare as this is a great opportunity to work with partners in the private sector. “The Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship will be delivered nationally within the
Spire Healthcare group and will offer greater flexibility than a traditional degree to the 270 new nursing apprentices. Based on the University of Sunderland’s successful experience elsewhere, this ‘grow your own’ model is a very exciting development for everyone concerned and we commend Spire Healthcare for its initiative in embarking on such a programme.” Spire’s nurse degree apprenticeship programme is open to applicants from people 18
years and over. Unusually for a nurse apprenticeship programme, it is open to people coming straight out of education, with no existing healthcare background. Applicants need to hold a maths and English GCSE A to C / 9 to 4 or equivalent and have either a level 3 in Healthcare or 112 UCAS points. The length of the programme is four or five years, depending on existing qualifications. This is reduced to two to three years for Nurse Associates or Assistant Practitioners to reflect existing experience and prior learning.
u
https://www.spirehealthcare.com/recruitment/spire-nursing-apprenticeship- programme/
8
www.education-today.co.uk
Teaching assistants were key to keeping schools open in
lockdown Just over half of teaching assistants in schools stepped-up to manage classes on their own during the Winter lockdown ensuring vulnerable and key worker children could attend lessons, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The study, published today by the UCL Institute of Education
and funded by UNISON, analysed data from 9055 teaching assistant and classroom assistants. It gives a broad picture of how TAs contributed to the running of schools, what this meant for them and makes key recommendations for the future. The researchers found that 88% of TAs supported vulnerable
and key worker children in school and 51% managed a whole class or bubble on their own, while class teachers prepared and delivered remote learning to children from home. Dr Rob Webster (UCL Centre for Inclusive Education) said: “TAs
have been absolutely key in allowing schools to keep functioning during the pandemic. “Our report highlights that in many ways teaching assistants
have been the ‘unsung heroes’ of the pandemic and it is hard to see how schools could have managed without them. Some respondents described themselves as working ‘on the frontline’ and shouldering much of the responsibility for keeping schools open.” Professor Gemma Moss (UCL Institute of Education) added:
“Our research found that the work required to keep schools functioning intensified in England in particular as schools entered the Winter 2021 lockdown with a legal requirement to supply remote education to all those children learning at home. “At the same time the Government extended the list of parents
who could classify as critical or key workers resulting in considerably higher numbers of children in school compared to previous lockdowns. This increased workload for teachers and TAs who had to find ways of managing children in school and providing lesson content for those at home and our findings suggest this may have led to increased anxiety as TAs juggled many different tasks.”
u
http://maximisingtas.co.uk/research-tas-during-covid.php April 2021
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48
