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
Exploring using maps
We located Rowlands Gill on the map and then identified the features we could locate on the map in the surrounding areas. We found the River Derwent, shops, church, houses, school and lots more!
Abstract Art at its Best!
Over the past few weeks the children have been learning about surrealism, magic realism and abstract art through the artist Joan Miro. They have studied a variety of paintings and sculptures, and discussed their ideas and opinions on his artwork. They then went on to...
Celebrating Chinese New Year 🐉
This week we have learning all about Chinese New Year. and learning about new cultures and celebrations. We have listened to stories including Peppa Pig's Chinese New Year, went on a dragon hunt, made lanterns and enjoyed a Chinese banquet.
Chinese New Year
We enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We cleaned ready for the new year, made lanterns, did some dragon dancing and set up our own Chinese restaurant. We even wrote our name in Chinese writing. What a super time we had!
Celebrating Chinese New Year
To celebrate seeing in the year of the Wood Dragon we cleaned, decorated our home corner, set up and ate in our Chinese restaurant and practised our cutting skills by making lanterns. We celebrated a full day in red, did you know it is a lucky colour? We also danced...
Our Eco Garden Transformation- Thank You Mr and Mrs Allchin
A huge thank you to our volunteers, Mr and Mrs Allchin, who have been sprucing up our eco garden, ensuring all weeds are removed and planting a range of new bulbs and plants. The bulbs are beginning to sprout, as we approach the spring and the children can't wait to...
Let’s Go Shopping
Some of the nursery children went to our local Tesco to buy some delicious food for our Chinese Banquet.
Internet Safety Day
We joined the assembly completing challenges on how to stay safe and then went outside and played a game thinking about our reactions and emotions in different scenarios.
Clay techniques
We used play dough to practice different techniques we could use to model the clay with such as twisting, imprinting, rolling and shaping.
Classifying and tasting foods
We sorted fruits and vegetables in to different groups, classifying them by different things such as colour and taste. We then looked at the different areas of our tongue that taste foods and tried foods from each group. Lots of us found the lemon very sour!
Forest School
We have finished our week with a fantastic afternoon at forest school- cooking on the fire, den building, tyre rolling and lots more.
The Messy Magpie
The children listened to the story The Messy Magpie linked to our bird watching topic. When the children arrived in nursery the following morning, they realised the messy magpie must have flew through an open window and made a very big mess! The children then sorted...