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St. Teresa’s Catholic Primary School are celebrating after winning the Hoops4Health Competition in front of the Newcastle Eagles!

The long-lasting effects of the pandemic are still being felt across the North East, as the National Tutoring Programme has re-entered the spotlight this week.

Schools North East knows that hundreds of schools across our region have rallied round to support the people and children of Ukraine at this terrible time.  We collated as many of these stories as possible to share the excellent work which North East schools are doing during this particularly distressing time.

Pupils from St Patrick’s Catholic Primary and Christ the King Catholic Primary School visited their local fire station to show their appreciation of the firefighters who operated there.

Schools North East has regularly conducted surveys and roundtables throughout the pandemic on key issues and challenges our schools are facing in order to ensure that the voices of North East school leaders are heard as widely as possible.

The future direction of the education system was the main focus at the annual Schools North East Academies Conference on Thursday. It was a real pleasure to see, in person again, literally hundreds of academy and Trust leaders attend, representing over 400 schools from the length and breadth of the NE region; almost 40% of the NE’s schools from Redcar to Northumberland and some colleagues from beyond the region as well. The day was specifically about supporting Trust leaders, CEOs, CFOs, Heads of School, Chairs, everyone who is such a critical part of our region’s amazing school system.

Schools North East knows that hundreds of schools across our region have rallied round to support the people and children of Ukraine at this terrible time.  We are looking to collate as many of these stories as we can to share them with the media and help engage more people with your efforts.   Please tell us what you are doing to help i.e writing letters, collecting cash, food, clothing etc.  Please help us to magnify your efforts and let the children of Ukraine know that we will do all we can to help.

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Following the announcement last week that the North East will become its own RSC region, the Department for Education shake-up has continued with a review of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) taking place.

The Schools North East’s annual Governance Conference 2022 took place this week, with hundreds of NE governors joining us for sessions including cyber security, safeguarding, environment and wellbeing, and an update from Ofsted Regional Director Emma Ing.  Many thanks to our event Main Sponsor Wrigley’s Solicitors (visit their website here) for their support in hosting this mainstay of our annual calendar.

We are passionate about giving the schools of this region a powerful platform to air their views and a collective voice lobbying on the issues that matter the most to them.  The feedback we receive from our State of the Region survey is crucial in getting the voice of North East schools heard by policy makers.

The House of Commons’ education committee held a session on mental health on Tuesday, as part of Children’s Mental Health Week. Giving evidence were Lord O’Donnell, Lord Layard, Catherine Roche (CEO at Place2Be), and Mouhssin Ismail (Principal at Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre).