How are we doing? What can we change? How can we improve? The 2018 Derbyshire Services for Schools survey is now live Your feedback has always been vitally important to Derbyshire Services for Schools, helping us shape and improve the programme and alerting us to important issues we’d otherwise miss. Every year we produce an annual survey, which is designed to capture the thoughts and opinions of Derbyshire Schools and Academies in relation to traded services and training. Results from the survey provide the core of our development plan for the year ahead and allows us to focus on the issues which genuinely matter to you. The 2018 survey is now available, and is open to anyone involved in the purchase or use of traded services from Derbyshire or with access to the Derbyshire Services for Schools site. You can find the survey by clicking here. If there is anyone in your school who would like to contribute to the survey, please just forward the survey link to them (https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=152872783826). We’ve simplified the survey this year. Rather than ask for feedback about every traded service provider, we’ve decided to focus our questions on your overall opinions of Derbyshire Services for Schools, your use of the site and how you’d like to see things change in future. These changes should make the survey easier and – more importantly – quicker to complete! The closing date for the survey is Friday 2nd August 2018. As always, if you have any questions or comments about the survey – or any other aspect of the Derbyshire Services for Schools programme – please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your feedback!

We’ve updated our Privacy Statement: GDPR and Derbyshire Services for Schools Yes… it’s another GDPR update to add to your collection! This time, it’s from Derbyshire Services for Schools. We take your privacy seriously, and have updated the privacy section of our website to reflect changes in legislation. You can access our full privacy statement by clicking here. As a system user, you are currently signed up to receive our newsletter which covers all Derbyshire Services for Schools activities as well as information about new offers, products, training courses and conferences. We'd like to continue sending you the newsletter to keep you up-to-date with all activities. Next time you log onto the Derbyshire Services for Schools site, you'll be asked if you want to continue receiving the newsletter. Please tick the box to confirm you still want to receive the latest traded services news direct to your inbox. If you choose to opt-out, you'll still be able to access all our news by logging onto the Derbyshire Services for Schools website. You can change your contact preferences at any time on the Derbyshire Services for Schools site. You just need to log-on and select My Profile, and navigate to the Contract Preferences box. More details can be found in the attached user guide, which is also available in our resources section. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us: Email: services4schools@derbyshire.gov.uk Tel: 01629 538191

Raising Standards in Writing Through the Use of Technology Lee Parkinson, also known as Mr P, is an Expert Primary Teacher, Renowned and Nationally Recognised Blogger, Tweeter and Speaker. ‘Mr P’ has been a Primary Teacher for 10 years where he has built a wealth of ideas for how technology can be embedded right across the curriculum. He has successfully deployed a class set of iPads across a whole primary school and worked alongside children from EYFS through to Year 6 looking at how iPads can enhance teaching and learning throughout the curriculum. He still works part-time at his school as he is a teacher first and foremost. The teaching ideas and pedagogy underpin everything Mr P does and is focused on raising standards in the classroom. Alongside his expertise with iPads, Mr Parkinson also provides training for how using web-based tools including blogging can impact on learning and motivate children to improve writing and reading. He also has a wealth of ideas to transform your classroom to prepare children for the modern world they are growing up into from a real teacher with practical ideas that work. Lee will be presenting the Key Note Speech at the Derbyshire Computing/ICT Conference on 10th July 2018 at Eastwood Hall - spaces are still available to book your place on the conference. More details can be found by clicking on the course title above. During the conference, Lee will discuss how technology should be utilised in the classroom to raise standards across the curriculum and in particular in writing. He will demonstrate first-hand how he utilises technology to enhance and transform teaching and learning in his school, showing examples of how this has impacted children's learning. Testimonials for Lee: "Incredible ideas for us to use in the classroom. Every teacher in Britain needs this training!" “Today’s training left me inspired and refreshed. Phrases I’ve heard being bounced around for years like “writing for a purpose” or “providing a context” were presented with hands on, practical examples. I’m looking forward to getting back in the classroom to put some of the ideas in to action. Thanks Mr P!”

Interested in attending our upcoming Annual Conference for Deputy and Assistant Headteachers and also Senior Teachers in Small Schools on Friday 6th July 2018? We have now released the full programme, keynote speaker and workshop details - all of which can be found in the attached document. Five workshops are on offer for delegates to choose from, which are all lead by headteachers with a wealth of knowledge to share. Thinking Outside the Box Helen Stamp, Kerry Potter and Natalie Doughty Peak Dale and Dove Holes Primary School Formal Collaboration 'Be Brave, Be Bold, Be You' Lindsey Apps and Nicola Brown St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Chesterfield ‘I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship’ Cassie Hurt Eureka Primary School 'It ain’t what you do it's the way that you do it!' John Stringer Hasland Junior School Behaviour – Analysis, Support and Achievement Dave Jones Peak Special School To book your place or if you have any queries, please contact us via the details below. S4S.Training@derbyshire.gov.uk 01629 536546

Guidance to support schools with data protection activity, including compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force in May 2018 all organisations handling personal data, including schools, need to have the right governance measures. The government has produced the attached document for schools to refer to regarding the updated GDPR regulations. You can download the attached PDF or access it via the following webpage: www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-protection-toolkit-for-schools Comments on this guidance can be sent to data.modernisation@education.gov.uk with the subject heading ‘GDPR toolkit feedback’.