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
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Celebrating Diwali – The festival of light
The colour explosions filled the classroom from power paint, fireworks to our own Diva lamp.
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Forest School
We have thoroughly enjoyed our first forest school sessions of the year! We enjoyed making dens, crafting, hunting for bugs, helping with the fire and more. We can’t wait to go back after half term!
Super start to our Reception year
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Music and movement
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Music Mark Members
We are proud to be Music Mark members and promote a love of music within our school. Our year 5 children are currently learning how to play the steel drums, during weekly, whole class music tuition. This will be extended to year 6 children next term.
Thank you for all of your Harvest donations!
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Duplication and Layering
We’ve been learning how to use duplicated shapes to produce more complex pictures and have made some brilliant images! We’re really skilled at using Google Drawings now and are even using shortcuts like ‘Ctrl D’, ‘Ctrl X’ and ‘Ctrl Z’ to help us work more quickly, as...
Stencil Fun
Last week, we made a giant background on a banner using water-colours. We learned how to blend our colours into each other. This week, we used the stencil we had designed and made to decorate this class banner. We used sponges to stipple and dab paint onto the...
Take a look at our Stone Age tiles…
Creating Patterns
In Nursery we have been looking at repeating patterns and used our autumn objects to recreate different patterns.