SchoolsWeb

 Head Teachers' handbook
The new handbook for 2018-2019 is now available on the School Liaison support page

Special Educational Needs
Special educational Needs guidelines and information including access to the Graduated Approach

Health & Safety training
To help schools fulfil their legal responsibilities for health and safety a comprehensive health and safety training programme is available.

Virtual School
The Virtual School has produced guidelines for schools in relation to Looked After Children.

School Swimming
Everything you need to know about swimming policies, courses and awards.

County Attendance Team (formerly Education Welfare)
Lots of information including statutory advice, template letters and much more.

Weapons awareness resources
Following an increase in exclusions in which weapons have been a contributory factor, a task and finish group was called to establish how schools could be supported

School closure instructions

Updating the status of your school in our closures system will automatically update our website and send an email to your local radio station.

If there has been heavy snow or other widespread disruption, and your school is open, please log in to set your status to 'Open - Normal Operation' for the day to reassure parents.

If you need to add a closure to our system, please follow the below procedure:

1. Log into SchoolsWeb
2. Under the name of your school in the middle of the login page there will be a link which says ‘Register Centre Closure’.
3. Clicking on the link will take you to the Closures form.
4. Fill in the details and click the ‘Add new status’ button.
5. Click on the ‘start date’ box and select today’s date (it should be highlighted).
6. There should be no need in normal circumstances  to change the ‘back to normal operation date’ as it automatically selects the following day.
7. You only need to write a message in circumstances such as a partial closure

Please make sure over this winter period that login details for SchoolsWeb are also available off the premises in case you are unable to make it into school in the morning.

GDPR is not a revolution in data protection law but is an evolution that enhances the existing standards and safeguards that as professionals you have been upholding for many years. 

We recommend reviewing the material on these pages and considering the ways that this legislation will impact upon how you collect, use, store and manage the data.

View DPR advice pages

Thank you to everyone who attended our schools forum on the 27 November, we were delighted to welcome so many of you.

We would love to hear your thoughts on how the forum went and would appreciate if you could fill out a quick survey.

For reference, and for those who were unable attend please have a look through the forum PowerPoint.

• Support Services forum presentation November 2018

We aim to hold the next forum in March 2019.