OPERATION ENCOMPASS
In accordance with the Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird’s Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, Operation Encompass has been initiated in Northumbria Police to promote the value of early interventions in schools.
In Gateshead, Operation Encompass is part of the wider Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) that has recently been established within Gateshead Council to support vulnerable persons.
The process commenced on 01 April 2015 and all eighty seven schools in Gateshead are participating in Operation Encompass. The process is to be rolled out to the rest of the Northumbria Police area very soon.
All School Key Adults have undertaken Operation Encompass training and are extremely positive about this exchange of information which is assisting them greatly in providing tailored support to children, young people and their families. One Key Adult Commented “I must say I think that this is a great operation as it keeps us well informed and it gives me a great understanding of the children and families I work with.”
Detective Constable Gill Menzies was asked to implement Operation Encompass across Gateshead, in conjunction with Gateshead Council Safer Communities. DC Menzies says “We are improving the way we share information every day and this is a simple yet effective example of how that information can greatly help in ensuring the continued welfare of children and young people.”
Further Information
What are directions?
Year 1 have been working on programming instructions on the Bee-Bot's to tell them which direction they need to move in. The class created mazes out of resources from around the room and programmed the Bee-Bot's to move, forwards, backwards, left and right....
Giving instructions
In Computing we have been programming the Bee-Bot to change directions depending in the instructions we inputted into it. We were challenged by being given obstacles to negotiate.
Separating mixtures (using sieving, filtering, evaporating and magnets)
World War Two Carrot Cake
In D.T, we have been making our very own carrot cake- WW2 style! We followed a WW2 recipe which was used during rationing. We used our measuring skills in order to follow a recipe accurately. Even although ingredients were rationed, we still loved the taste of the...
Net Monsters
Today we have been working with the nets of 3D shapes. We found it tricky at first- but these 'net monsters' really helped. We have been using our skills to create nets of our own and also using our reasoning skills to explain what mistakes we could spot in some of...
Making our Crumble-mobiles move!
We've been working hard to get our Crumble vehicles - our Crumble-mobiles! - to move in the directions we want them to. This hasn't been easy - we've had wheels that needed to go in different directions because the motors were different ways up (!) and also had to...
Crumble Computing
Today we have been learning to programme a turning sequence on our crumbles. We managed to make the crumbles move forward and back. However, crumbles do not have a right and left function so we had to problem solve in order to achieve this. We discovered that in order...
May The Force Be With You!
During this half term, Year 6 have been learning about a variety of forces, including gravitational pull and how it affects us. They have looked at the difference between mass and weight and the units of measure for both. They now know that if they lived on the...
Rhyme time – Adventures of Isabel poetry
I was so impressed with our poetry today, I just had to share. The children have been reading a funny poem called 'Adventures of Isabel' and they have written in the same style. They are rhyming legends!
Excavating the Egyptian Tomb.
What do artefacts tell us about Ancient Egypt? Today the children became Egyptologists and archaeologists. They had to work in teams to record what they could find in our very own Egyptian tomb. They showed great teamwork, cooperation, and a cool head under pressure,...
What do you find in a letter?
We used our knowledge of letters and their key features to sort letters from other genres of writing. We then used our knowledge to then write a letter as though we were one of the characters from “The smartest Giant in Town” to tell George how much he helped.
Decorating for Christmas
We had great fun decorating the classroom ready for Christmas using lights, tinsel, baubles and much more. We also made long paper chains to go across the room. We enjoyed some hot chocolate and crumpets as our snack whilst decorating the tree. We made another tree...