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
Our New Animals!
In today's english lesson, we have had so much fun creating new animals with unique heads, bodies and legs. We had to label our new animals with precise vocabulary and next week, we will be writing an information texts all about them!
Let’s go fly a kite
On a windy day the children in Early Years chose to make kites. They chose a range of materials to make their kite and experimented with their design finding the best ways to stick them together. After a few attempts and...
Forest school fun!
We were inspired by our story Marshmallows to build a campfire and roast our own marshmallows over it. We were lucky enough to be taught how to build a fire using a flint to make sparks to ignite the cotton wool beneath the kindling. The weather was quite soggy but we...
Are you Strong Enough?
As part of our Design Technology Project' Building a Stone Age Home' we had to test the strength of different shapes structures and materials. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot too.
School is open on Friday 18th December as normal
Dear Parent/Carer Please click on the link below to see attached letter which clarifies the School's position on recent media reports about schools closing early for the Christmas holidays. We will not be closing early - our end of term is at the end of the day on...
Christmas Jumper Day – Tomorrow – Friday 11th Dec
It's Save the Children's Christmas Jumper day tomorrow - Friday, 11th December and our school is supporting the event this year by asking pupils and staff to come to school in a festive/Christmas jumper, on the day, and making a donation to the Save the Children...
Pentathlon
5/6A have been practising the events for the GSSP Pentathlon event! We have some competitive pupils in our class and love to put their all into whatever they're doing. They showed amazing enthusiasm to achieve their best individually in all the events and supported...
Christmassy Christingles
To learn more about the meaning of Christmas, all of Key Stage Two made their own Christingles.
Jumping Jacks!
Clay Dragon’s Eyes
As part of this half term's art lessons (linking to our english text- The Paper Bag Princess), we have been designing dragon's eyes, looking specifically at the intimate detail and the colours. Today's lesson was extra exciting! We used clay to create our very own...
Our Christmas Cards for the Community.
This afternoon, we have used art straws to create these snowy Christmas cards for the people of our community. We had to be very patient and take our time to measure each straw so that they were all appropriate lengths.
Pointillism Paintings
The children have started getting braver with their art skills and thinking of their own ideas for this pointillism painting. They applied the skills they have been learning over the weeks.