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Autumn Term 2023
Autumn Term: Monday 4th September 2023 – Friday 22nd December 2023
Autumn Half –Term: Monday 30th October 2023 – Friday 3rd November 2023
Spring Term 2024
Spring Term: Monday 8th January 2024 – Friday 29th March 2024
Spring Half –Term: Monday 19th February 2024 – Friday 23rd February 2024
Summer Term 2024
Summer Term: Monday 15th April 2024 – Friday 19th July 2024
Easter Break: Monday 1st April 2024 – Friday 12th April 2024
Summer Half –Term: Monday 27th May 2024 – 31st May 2024
Teacher Training Days 2023 – 2024
Monday 4th September 2023
Tuesday 5th September 2023
Friday 19th January 2024
Friday 19th April 2024
Friday 14th June 2024
Bank Holidays (During Term Time)
Friday 29th March 2024
Monday 6th May 2024
White Shirt
Black tailored trousers/shorts/skirt
School Sweatshirt
Plain black footwear
House Tie (£3.70 from the school office)
PE Kit
School PE top
Black short/PE skirt
Plain tracksuit trousers
PE hoodie
Please ensure all items are clearly labelled
The school sweatshirt, PE top and PE Hoodie can be purchased from:
Emblematic
Unit 26 North Tyne Industrial Estate
Benton
NE12 9SZ
As of April this year, we will be moving to a new catering provider following feedback from our children and families regarding the service, particularly regarding the payment system. Hutchison Catering will be our new catering provider and will be up and running after the Easter holidays and ready to serve our children from Monday 17th April 2023.
Hutchinson Catering information:
Hutchinson Catering – Welcome Letter
Appetite Online – Parent Information
Managing Special Diets – Parent Information
Appetite Hutchisons – Privacy Policy
If you have a special diet request or allergy, please complete our online form here: https://forms.office.com/e/cRvd3FWSHU
You may be eligible for free school meals
To complete an application over the phone please call 0191 643 2288.
To complete an application online, follow the link below.
https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/category/238/free-school-meals
Week 1
Week commencing: 4th September / 25th September / 16th October / 13th November / 4th December
Week 2
Week commencing: 11th September / 2nd October / 23rd October / 20th November / 11th December
Week 3
Week commencing: 18th September / 9th October / 6th November / 27th November / 18th December
Our school offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities throughout the year. The clubs promote additional learning and key skills. Just as important is the opportunity to have fun in new activities and with new people!
All of our clubs are free to attend. This includes our before school Breakfast Club from 8am and our after school homework club until 5pm. All children are welcome to attend any, and as many, clubs as they'd like to.
The programme changes each term, in response to children's feedback. Sign up is easy through our online form and no sign up is needed for clubs that take place at lunchtime.
Please find attached the Extra Curricular Timetable programme and the link to sign up for next half terms activities.
If you have currently signed up to an activity this half term, you will need to complete the form again for the new half term of activities.
Please complete this link.
Careers Education Information, Advice and Guidance
CEIAG provision at Monkseaton Middle School is a dynamic and fluid area of the curriculum. We have chosen to base the curriculum on the eight Gatsby benchmarks, and the content is delivered in a flexible manner in order to meet the diverse needs of our pupils’ who live in ever-changing local, national and global communities.
The North East’s Strategic Development Plan also informs our CEIAG strategy, which is a blueprint for the activities that need to take place to improve our economy. In order to do this, we are supported by a North East Local Enterprise Partner who is provided by The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP). They are a public, private and education sector partnerships that produce the area’s Strategic Economic Plan.
Useful Links:
Careers Education Information and Guidance (CEIAG) Programme Information 2019-2020
CEIAG Overview at MMS V4 – Working Document
Tyne and Wear Connexions local advice service
Advice about Apprenticeships and Traineeships
CAREER RESOURCES FOR PARENTS
An article from the Guardian Careers on how parent can best to support their children in their career choices: encourage individuality; open your mind to alternatives; encourage networking; be prepared to let go. This article is from 2014, but it is still relevant – a few links are not active, but it is still worth a read - https://www.theguardian.com/careers/how-help-child-navigate-career-paths
https://www.careersadviceforparents.org
This site is particularly aimed at parents with various topics to explore including understanding the job market with specific links to labour market information.
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk
This site offers information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work. The job profiles are highly recommended!
https://www.bbc.com/education/topics/znpsgk7
A BBC resource with video links to career options, employability and further education.
Careersbox is the national careers film library, a free careers resource showing hundreds of real people doing real jobs.
Their mission is to provide free one-to-one career guidance to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and to break down barriers to social mobility. Professionally qualified advisers volunteering from within the independent sector deliver their advice. These individuals are motivated by their shared passion for making career and educational opportunities available to all – regardless of background, affluence or connections.
This site has Career Zones for you to find out all about the different jobs you can do, what to study and how to get there, whether you’re planning to leave school or heading to college or uni. Each zone is packed with helpful interviews, advice and links to set you on the right path to career superstardom.
icould is a small, dynamic charity, providing career inspiration and information for young people. They show what is possible in work and offer different ways to think about careers through free access to over 1000 personal video stories, detailed job information, plus practical tips, insight and advice.
WEBSITES FOR PARENTS
How to help your child navigate a route to career success Career choices The Guardian
CɅREER ALCHΣMY - Career Alchemy - Your Potential Inspired By Purpose
Careers advice - job profiles, information and resources National Careers Service
Careers - KS3 PSHE and Citizenship - BBC Bitesize
Success at School: Careers advice for schools and students
Online school applications North Tyneside Council
How We Can Help You at School
Pastoral Structure and Support
We want all children to be safe and happy at school and this includes their mental health and wellbeing. We are committed to their welfare and pastoral care at our school and ensure we provide this through a variety of channels and support. This extends to families, parents and carers.
We are fortunate enough to be able to offer full time pastoral support to our school community and pride ourselves in providing a nurturing environment in which all children can flourish. As a small school, there is a real sense of family. Our school ethos was written by the children and staff and we feel it summarises our school in a few, thoughtful sentences.
We are particularly proud that the children believe “Every child matters at our school” and “We are a family made up of unique individuals”.
At Monkseaton Middle School, the children are all taught in their form class. They spend the first 30 minutes of each day with their Form Tutor and this enables them to build a positive relationship with an adult in school. The Form Tutor is the first point of contact for any child or parent queries. Each morning tutor time is spent supporting children with their reading, wellbeing and mental health.
The year groups are split into three houses; Celts, Romans and Vikings. As well as fostering healthy competition throughout the year for our termly sports and reading challenges, the houses promote a sense of teamwork and identity across the year groups.
We believe strongly in recognising achievement and progress, and rewarding successes each lesson, day, week and half term.
Children are rewarded with house points throughout the day, this can be individually and as a group or class. Points are then collected on a weekly basis with a half termly challenge for the form class with the most house points. Individual honours include the Form Tutor Award, Accelerated Reader Rewards and Golden Postcards.
Our full-time pastoral team consists of our Pastoral Support Lead – Miss Diane Black and 5 Learning Support Assistants. Together, they many years’ experience of supporting young people and their families. Our team have worked in a variety of school environments and are highly qualified in supporting children and families through a range of school-based interventions, as well as leading on Early Help, and referring to agencies throughout North Tyneside.
The pastoral team are here to lend a guiding hand when times are challenging for children and their families. The breadth of experience in the team means that we can support on issues from attendance and punctuality concerns, right through to getting outside help and intervention when it is needed.
We work with an extensive list of agencies to support children and families, such as:
- Barnardo's
- Acorns
- Art Psychotherapies
- Care and Connect
- Family Partners
- Children’s Public Health Service (including School Nurse)
- Harbour
- Young carers
We pride ourselves on our close working relationships with carers and families, and believe that it is through together to support children that we can all ensure that they have the best possible outcomes in life.
Miss Black is available throughout the day to answer queries and questions from children and families alike, and can be contacted by telephone on 0191 253 2335 and admin@monkseatonmiddle.org.
Hayley is our school nurse and is with us weekly. She is a fully qualified school nurse who has great deal of experience in supporting children with their mental and physical health.
For more information on the services Hayley and the team provide you can visit her website at www.myschoolhealth.co.uk. If you or your child would like to speak to Hayley, please contact the school and we will make the appointment for you.
We also work very closely with the counselling service Someone Cares. They provide a bespoke counselling service for children to explore their feelings and receive support on a variety of issues such as anxiety, friendships and emotional upset. Sessions are for up to 1 hour weekly, for an initial period of 8 weeks. If you feel your child would benefit from speaking to a counsellor, please contact Miss Black via the school office.
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
Victoria Vasey is our SENDCo. We believe in a holistic approach to child support and development at Monkseaton Middle. We recognise that all children are unique and the level of support they require throughout their school life will vary.
Mrs Vasey is supported by Miss Gets our Senior Learning Support Assistant and a team of highly qualified Learning Support Assistants, each with their own particular area of interest and expertise, including dyslexia, ASD and social skills, and ADHD. Learning Support Assistants act as key workers for SEND children and are the link between home and school, working with the child, family and teaching staff to set targets through a SEND Support Plan and put additional support in place to help the child meet these targets.
This is a continual process and may require the support of external professionals from education and healthcare. These may include:
- North Tyneside CAMHS
- Educational Psychology Service
- HIVE
- Language and Communication
- EMTAS
- Speech and Language
- Occupational Therapy
- North Tyneside Dyslexia Team
SENDIASS (Special Educational Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service) is a specialist service available to help parents and carers navigate the special educational needs framework. They are impartial, and can offer advice and help, including with the planning and assessment process of an education, health and care (EHC) plan.
Those children who are identified as in need of extra support and who have failed to make progress despite further more intensive interventions, may be put forward for a formal statutory assessment of their needs within or across the following categories: *
- Communication and Interaction: Those children with speech, language and communication needs that prevents them accessing the curriculum fully or restricts their communication with others.
- Cognition and Learning: Those children whose literacy/numeracy fall on the lowest percentile scores and who are failing to access the curriculum.
- Sensory and/or Physical Needs: Those children who have specific needs that restrict access to the curriculum including those students who require additional ongoing support or equipment.
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties: Children who are failing to match the emotional and social development milestones of their peers or whose mental health is a significant barrier to their learning.
They can be contacted on 0191 6438317 or sendiass@northtyneside.gov.uk. The North Tyneside Local Offer for Special Education Needs and Disabilities can be found here: https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/category/1243/local-offer-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-send
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