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 to achieve goals
Today we were working out how we can achieve goals that we set best, thinking about a step by step process to the goal as well as listening to our peers. We spoke about how we learn most effectively too. We worked together to successfully complete the goal of making a...
Tens and ones
We looked at how many tens and ones in different numbers using part, part whole models to represent them. We used the terminology ‘partition’ to show how we found the tens and ones.
Forest Fun
We love forest school! Building, digging and working together outside. We built a fire, used saws and knives and explored the ice.
It’s Cold Today!
At the beginning of the week we thought it would be a really good idea to fill lots of containers with water in the outdoor area as it was going to turn very cold, we wanted to see if the water would freeze. After filling the containers we put in a selection of small...
Moving Sprite Computing 3M
Peace at Last ☕
We listened to the story Peace at last, Mr bear couldn’t sleep because it was too noisy. At the end of the story Mrs bear made a nice cup of tea and we decided it would be lovely to finish our day at nursery with a nice cup of tea just like Mr and Mrs Bear. We sat in...
Multi-skills event
Today 14 children from Reception represented our school in the Gateshead Schools Partnership multi-skills event at Gateshead stadium. It was a super morning and we found the venue to be amazing. Lots of “wows” as we entered the stadium and saw the pitch and track.
Hygienic Hands
In Science we have been investigating ways to keep ourselves clean. We carried out an experiment using different coloured glitter and shook hands with our partners to see how easily germs can spread from one person to another. We then tested different ways of washing...
Our senses and our bodies
We drew around each other and labelled parts of the body and linked them to the 5 senses.
Newsletter 17.01.24
A Home for a Hedgehog 🦔
After listening to the story One Winters Day, about a hedgehog who needed to find a home to keep him warm on a snowy day, we wrapped up nice and warm and went on a walk around the school to look for any signs of hedgehogs. We talked about how they might be hibernating...
Exploring Beebots
We have had lots of fun exploring how Beebots work with our peers, thinking about what functions the different buttons have and how to effectively give the Beebot directions to get to a destination.