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
Art shading skills
We have been using different shading techniques to draw real life, natural objects. We are very proud of our masterpieces!
What’s eating you?
We have been learning all about herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores in Science today and which animals eat what?
RNLI Workshop
This afternoon, we were visited by Nick and Andy from RNLI, who taught us all about how to stay safe near water. We even had the chance to dress up as lifeguards and we were able to have a try with their safety equipment. We learnt which coloured flags mean we are...
After school clubs and collections by parents.
All after school club collections will be from the yard except football on a Thursday which will leave by the main office doors. The school office closes at 4pm so parents cannot access the school until the football finishes.
Making Food Chains (Habitats)
Today, in science, we have been learning about the variety of food chains in the different habitats we have been learning about. We have been placing animals and plants in the correct food chains and working out which animals are the producers and consumers (and which...
We have lift off on our Explorer’s Topic
Making equal group masters
The children have started learning about multiplication and they have been working practically making equal groups and counting in 2's 5's and 10's.
Getting into character
The children have been finding their inner- actor and have delved deep into the characters of Grandad and Syd from our book Grandad's Island
Parts of the body
In Science, we are looking at parts of our body. In year two, we managed to think of internal and external body parts. Our highlight was drawing round each other!
Fore!
This term, Year 3 are learning some golf skills in P.E. Today, we have learned to hold a club correctly and practised our aiming. The children have really enjoyed it.
We are researchers!
In History, we have been researching the famous explorer Neil Armstrong. Our fact rockets are proudly displayed in our classroom so visitors can magpie our findings! Where would you like to explore?
Role- play- Grandad’s Island
Today, we have been looking at body language and facial expressions in our story, Grandad's Island. Cameron is Grandad and Leoni is Syd in this freeze frame. They paid close attention to the body language and inferred a lot about Syd and Grandad's relationship.