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Newsletter June 2014
Welcome
How schools are using our programmes
Offering an exciting opportunity
Narrowing the gap with VisionWorks
Human values or 'British' values?
Register with VisionWorks
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With the World Cup about to kick off, we stand at the brink of a month of football mania. Whether you are a mad keen supporter, an interested observer or optimistically detached we wish you a successful end of year as you juggle international sport alongside exams, planning for September, end of term events and getting out into the sunshine. Teaching is always about multi-tasking, after all!
The VisionWorks for Schools team
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How schools are using our programmes
The Mendip Inclusion Project currently provides outreach work to schools to support pupils at risk of exclusion. They have been using Discovering Me since 2010.
"I find the resources helpful to some students in progressing their thinking about owning their behaviour; especially those who can access the more abstract concepts, such as the iceberg theory and Don't judge a book by its cover. I have experienced students having fun with the resources and the ideas. Students who have successfully accessed the positive reflective thinking have shown improvements in attendance avoiding exclusion.
In schools where the lessons have been used there appears to be a genuine interest from staff. As a teacher I find the ideas interesting to deliver and the interaction makes a stimulating lesson."
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Offering an exciting opportunity
 We are currently looking for schools who would like work with us to evaluate the effects of our programmes on students and staff. We would work with you to approach a research body for funding to carry out a professional study.
So, if you were thinking of introducing one of our emotional well-being schemes of work into your setting but perhaps money is an issue, then this could be the answer. Your students and staff get to develop their emotional maturity and gain key life skills, we gain the evidence it really does work.
It's a win- win!!
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Narrowing the gap with VisionWorks
The Pupil Premium Toolkit published by the Educational Endowment Federation gives guidance for teachers and schools on how to use their resources to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. This useful and authoritative survey looks at 34 categories and shows that reducing challenging behaviour in schools can have a direct and lasting effect on pupils' learning; it is also a relatively cost-effective option, click here to read more.
VisionWorks' training days show how Emotional Well-being is a vital key to engagement and learning for all, thereby narrowing the gap. They are an opportunity to understand the principles and their importance, to take away tools to use in the classroom, and to share good practice across different settings. Our next dates for your diary are:
All 0930-1500 hrs
"Thoroughly enjoyed the day. I didn't know what to expect but feel that all staff should have the opportunity to go on this course." L Gould
To book online or for more information please click here.
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Human values or 'British values'?
 After Michael Gove's controversial announcement that schools would have to promote 'British values', Twitter has hit back by ridiculing the Government with their own suggestions as to what values the UK is defined by.
Twitter user Stuart Brown, for example, summarised British values as: "Being wary of foreigners while having a Belgian beer with an Indian curry in your Spanish villa wearing Indonesian clothes."
The Education Secretary himself has mentioned "democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs" as core British values. Surely we cannot claim these as exclusively 'British' - they seem more generally 'human' and it is the purpose of education around the world to engender them.
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Register with VisionWorks
Register at www.vision-works.net for a host of FREE downloadable resources, assembly ideas and sample modules from our programmes.
More information
  VisionWorks for Schools now has its own Facebook page. All you have to do is like us and you will have regular updates of workshops, webinars, current EI news and more! We would love to hear from you too.
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