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
Freeze framing
We read the story of the Smartest Giant in Town and thought about how the different animals felt before and after George’s help. We freeze framed how they might feel throughout. We also thought about the kindness George showed the animals and how we could replicate...
Moving to Music
We enjoyed finding the beat of different styles of music by clapping, marching, tapping and jumping.
Mystery Reader
What a lovely surprise!! The nursery children loved listening to Winnie the Witch from our mystery reader. Thank you
Newsletter 11.11.22 with Christmas Plans!
Please see the attached newsletter with lots of important information about Christmas. Built into the newsletter, there are links to forms where you can sign up for your places in the audience at the Christmas performances. Please complete these as soon as possible to...
MHA Christmas Fayre 3rd December
Please see the links below regarding the MHA Christmas Fayre in Crawcrook on 3rd December. This charity supports the elderly in our community.
Taking care
On Monday in welcome time discussion turned to ‘how do birds get fed in the winter’. We discussed how there are less mini beasts, we discovered this at forest school, and the berries are dying off. We decided to make bird feeders to care for our birds. We watched...
Dressing as the giant
We had a delivery of the Giant’s clothes in a suitcase to our classroom so we practised dressing up to see how smart we could look. We compared the items of clothing using ‘bigger than’ and ‘smaller than’.
Year 6 – Orienteering
Today, year 6 went on an orienteering trip to Thorp academy. When we got there we got put into groups and were assigned two young leaders from year 7, some of which we knew because they went to our school! The first task was a practice round to get familiar with the...
Sorting recycling using density and flow charts
As part of our science enhancement, we are learning about recycling for the next 6 weeks and this week, we have used flow charts to sort and identify plastics using basic tests. We also used density towers to sort material and see what density the object is to sort...
Sequencing our story
We have enjoyed reading our new story for this half term - The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad. We have contributed to class discussions about what it means to be proud of something or someone. This week we began to sequence our story to prepare us for our big write...
Division
This week in Maths, we have been learning about division in. We know that to divide means to share into equal groups. We started by dividing bean bags into 2 equal groups and we recognised that this was the same as halving. We then went on to divide counters into 5...
Athletics silver medals!! Congratulations!
Wow! What an afternoon we have had at the Gateshead indoor athletics competition. 20 children from year 5/6 were selected to take part in this competitive event, competing in track and field events. Each school was working as a team, rather than individual events. The...