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
How to stay safe
An excellent discussion on how to stay safe near and when crossing the road, part of our PSHE lessons on how to stay safe.
Operation clean up
After the storm at the weekend we started the clean up in our outdoor area. As a class we worked as a team to discuss what should stay out for the winter and what need to be protected from the winter weather. We decided we would like a change around to keep other...
Do bigger ears hear louder sounds?
The children wanted to find out whether bigger ears hear louder sounds? They used the science journal app to record the decibel level for their sounds for different sizes of 'ears'. They really loved making lots of noise way too much. The recorded their results on a...
Victoria Tunnel
You will have all heard about our fantastic trip to Victoria Tunnel. Today, we have been writing information texts to inform other classes about our trip.
Newsletter 26/11/21
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Interesting designs
Through our paper weaving we were not only creating interesting designs but developing our hand eye coordination, fine motor skills and pattern creating.
Powered by phonics
From single sounds, to cvc word building to sentence writing - Reception are trying so hard across the day with their phonics, both within play and in our phonics sessions. We are working on remembering which way round our letters go!
Hotseating the characters from ‘The Happy Prince’- such fantastic actors!
Egyptian Cinderella Stories
The children in 3M have been writing a retell of the Egyptian Cinderella.
Sequencing in Scratch
Abbasolutely Brilliant!
SINGING INSTRUMENTS Composition
Sounds like fun in Science
We’ve been learning about how sound travels. The children used tuning forks to create sound and see how vibrations can make a ping pong ball move on a string. The children learned how sound travels better through solids with the use of string and triangles. The...