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 do we make a Stone Age roof waterproof?
We are designing a Stone Age home and decided that the roof was a very important part of the structure. We took three materials which would have been around in those days: ferns, moss and bark and devised a fair test. We poured 5ml, 10ml and 15ml of water on each and...
FoRGPS 20.11.20
Thank you to everyone who has already returned raffle tickets to school. We have had lots of fantastic prizes donated by our local community, pop on our Facebook page to have a look! To boost our prizes further, next week we would be very grateful of donations towards...
Apostrophe Surgery!
Today, in english, we have been learning how to use apostrophes for contracted forms. We used our apostrophe plasters to stick two words together to make the contracted form.
Investigating our shadows.
In today's science lesson, we have been investigating the hours of daylight in autumn and winter. We created a pictogram and we found out that December and January have the least amount of daylight. We finished our science lesson by investigating our shadows in the...
Comparing amounts (of tens and ones)
In today's maths lesson, we have continued to compare amounts of tens and ones using the greater than, less than and equal to signs. We were even making and comparing 3-digit numbers. Muhammad even managed to work out that 13 ones needs to become 1 ten and 3 ones in...
Investigating daylength in autumn
We did some investigating over the week. I set the challenge for the children that they needed to put their teddies to bed when the sun set. They took photos every night and recorded the time. The children then did some pattern spotting and noticed what was changing.
Partitioning into tens and ones
Apostrophes for Possession
We have been learning how to use apostrophes for possession in our english lesson today and we have made a super start!
We are all part of the anti-bullying puzzle
Today we all took part in creating an enormous puzzle of anti-bullying. Everyone designed a puzzle piece with a message of anti- bullying.
Visiting 3L’s Stone Age Museum
We were lucky enough to be invited to Mrs Lynch's class' museum this afternoon, which they have set up in Hall 2. They have displayed a range of artefacts from the Stone Age and they have written some excellent descriptions of them too. Thank you 3L, for our invite!
FORGS Christmas Raffle
Please click on the link below to see the letter from the Friends of Rowlands Gill about prizes and donations for the upcoming Christmas raffle to help raise funds for the school. FORGS letter raffle donations
RGPS School Book Club – Raised £19.89
Many thanks for all the support with the new online RGPS School book club which closed on 6th November. We raised a total of £99.43 which means the school has £19.89 to spend on books. Thank you to everyone who ordered and keep your eyes out for the next one to be...