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• ACE Newsletter

  Fri 24 Jun 2022

  ACE Newsletter

• ACE Newsletter

  Fri 17 Jun 2022

  ACE Newsletter 17/6/22

• Clean Air Day 2022

  Tue 14 Jun 2022 Paul Magnall

  This Thursday is Clean Air Day.

   

  Every year, air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths in the UK. The World Health Organisation and the UK Government recognise that air pollution is the largest environmental health risk we face today. 

   

  Children are particularly at risk from air pollution, as their immune systems, lungs and brains are still developing. Air pollution can affect children’s physical health, and their ability to learn, and even lead to death. Yet millions of children are still exposed to dangerously high levels of air pollution, as over a quarter of UK schools are in areas above WHO air pollution limits.

   

  Clean Air Day helps to remind us of our part in causing air pollution and how we can help to reduce it. Here are some of the things we can do:

  • walk, scoot or cycle to school
  • use public transport if you live further away
  • if you have to use a car then share lifts if possible - this reduces the number of vehicles on the road
  • if you use a car and stop to drop off or collect your child  don't leave your engine idling - switch the engine off so that you don't fill the air with fumes.

   

  Every little helps  - so please do your little bit to help!

   

  Clean Air Day Leaflet

  

• ACE Newsletter

  Mon 13 Jun 2022

  ACE Newsletter 10/06/2022

• INSPIRATIONAL LEEDS HEADTEACHER HONOURED IN PRESTIGIOUS UK CELEBRATION OF TEACHING

  Tue 07 Jun 2022

  On Thursday, 26 May, Helen Stott, Headteacher at Allerton CE Primary School was named as one of 80 Pearson National Teaching Award Silver Award winners across the country. Helen Stott is honoured with a Silver Award in the Headteacher of the Year in a Primary School category for her outstanding commitment to changing the lives of the children they work with every day.

  Helen has shown throughout her 30-year career a burning passion that the Arts are not the additional advantage of the privileged but a right for every young citizen. She is a strong, inspirational, and open leader with the courage to take risks, always with a smile, and the tenacity to see projects through to fruition.

  Justice and opportunity for every child is at the heart of what Helen has dedicated her time and energies to over the years. She is their voice when their voice is not heard. Helen has thoughtfully and creatively transformed her school from 200 children to just over 700. Her vision for Allerton CE Primary has made it the school it is today: flourishing, dynamic and striving for the very best.

  As a Silver Award winner, Helen Stott has now been shortlisted to win one of just 16 Gold Awards later in the year. Recognition of this once in a lifetime achievement will be broadcast on the BBC’s The One Show as part of a week-long celebration of teaching, which sees famous faces honour award winners every night in the run up to the ceremony. This is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the exceptional school leaders and teachers who have worked wonders to bring together their local communities despite the challenges of the past few years.

  The Silver Award winners are being honoured as part of the wider celebrations for national ‘Thank a Teacher Day’, bringing together everyone across the country to celebrate the schools and colleges at the heart of our communities.

  The Pearson National Teaching Awards is an annual celebration of excellence in education, founded in 1998 by Lord Puttnam to recognise the life-changing impact an inspirational teacher can have on the lives of the young people they work with. This year marks its 23rd year of celebrating our school teaching staff across the UK.

  Paul Matthias, National Director at Hays Education, said: “Working in placing thousands of education professionals across the country – we know that the right school leader is essential to the success of a school and the wellbeing of its students. Helen Stott has received one of the highest accolades a head can receive, and it’s obvious from the feedback how much she deserves it.”

  Sharon Hague, Managing Director of Schools at Pearson UK, said:
  “Congratulations to today’s Silver Award winners on their incredible achievement, they should all feel very proud of themselves. And thank you to all the incredible educators and support staff across this country who really do make our schools and colleges so special. I am delighted that we can take this opportunity to say how much we appreciate all that you do for the young people in your care.”

  Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said:
  “Congratulations to Helen Stott on this incredible achievement, and for the hard work and dedication which led up to it. Winning this award is impressive, welldeserved and shows Helen’s commitment to helping students achieve their full potential.”

  Michael Morpurgo, celebrated author and former Children’s Laureate, and President of the Teaching Awards Trust, said:
  “For so many of us, it was someone at school who changed our lives, was at our side through hard and difficult times, who lifted us up when we were down, helped us find our voice, gave us confidence when we needed it most, and set us on a path that we have followed ever since. 
  “No matter who we are, school has touched our lives and played a central role in our childhoods. School is about so much more than learning, and we see that now more than ever before. Schools really are the beating heart of our communities. Every person that cares for our children in schools should be celebrated loud and clear on Thank A Teacher Day 2022.”

  

• Walk with Amal - messages of love, hope and togetherness

  Tue 07 Jun 2022

  Amal is a 3.5m high puppet who represents all displaced children. In 2021, 10 year old Amal embarked on a remarkable journey that took her from the Syrian border across Turkey, across Europe. In search of her mother. To get back to school. To start a new life. Amal travelled over 8,000km embodying the urgent message “Don’t forget about us”. To date little Amal has travelled through 70 cities and she has been welcomed at more than 160 unique events, reaching 875,000 people in the 12 countries she has already visited, and millions more online.

   

  Now she takes her next steps…

  In June 2022, one year on from leaving Syria, Amal will take part in World Refugee Week by visiting 10 towns and cities across England, meeting old friends and making new ones. Amal will arrive in Leeds on Monday the 20th June in the early evening.

  So that children of Leeds have the opportunity to give Amal a warm welcome, they have created a simple flower template and are asking children to decorate the petals with messages of love, hope and togetherness. Completed petals will then be used to create Yorkshire roses, which will be presented to Amal.