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
Newsletter 30.04.21
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Big Bear Funk Music….
During our music session, Reception children really enjoyed leaning a new song called ‘Big Bear Funk’. They then had to show different ways of finding the pulse to this song. as well as clapping out the rhythm. The children agreed that the best part was adding dance...
Investigating sources in History
The children have been learning about the different passengers aboard the Titanic and they have been super sleuths analysing sources from the Titanic. They were able to identify which picture gave us the best evidence for different statements about the Titanic.
Fruit Salad
The children in 1.2M put all their culinary skills to good use to make a delicious fruit salad. The children have very brave tastebuds. They were very happy to try the most exotic of fruits. Well done kids.
Programming in Year 4!
In Year 4, we're learning how to program a screen turtle to make repeated patterns and shapes - we're still learning how to do it but check out our early work. You can see the algorithms (that's computer speak for instructions!) next to the letters we've drawn !
The Island by Armin Greder
Hurt No Living Thing (Using New Animals)
We followed the structure of the poem we've been learning about, Hurt No Living Thing, but instead of writing about minibeasts, we wrote about different animals (in the same style as the original poem). Our job was to use adjectives, verbs and adverbs to describe the...
Counting coins
The Early Years Vets is now open!
As part of our 'People who help us' theme, the children have been playing at being a vet. They have helped the animals to get better in many ways. They have been carefully injecting the animals with life-saving medicines. Also, they have been checking the poorly...
Hurt No Living Thing- Our Own Versions
Today, we used ideas from the poem 'Hurt No Living Thing' to create our own version. I was so impressed with them!
Drawing different textures
Today, in our art lesson, we experimented with the shading pencils. We chose the pencil according to the shade and we practised creating different textures, in preparation of our Titanic drawings over the next few weeks.
Hurt No Living Thing- Ordering and Retelling
We are looking at a new poem this half term in english: Hurt No Living Thing. Today we drew poem maps and then ordered the poem. We were all able to use our poem maps and our widgits to retell the poem fluently to our friends!