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Woodspeen's extra three P's........Projects!           Lets's start with Traineeships

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Woodspeen's extra three P's........Projects!           Lets's start with Traineeships

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Thank you to all staff who have provided ideas and feedback to Charlotte for our new Traineeship project. We have made a great start and the delivery model and further updates will be rolled out in November. Our target for October was 1 start and we have met this already, with 2 more starts that we hope to enrol by the end of the month! Well done everyone!

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A traineeship is an education and training programme with work experience that unlocks the great potential of young people and prepares them for their future careers by helping them to become 'work ready'.

Designed to help young people aged 16 to 24 who don't yet have the appropriate skills or experience, traineeships provide the essential work preparation training, English, maths and work experience needed to secure an apprenticeship or employment.

Traineeships can last up to a maximum of 6 months and will include:

work preparation training provided by the training organisation

English and maths support if required, provided by the training organisation

a high-quality work experience placement with an employer

In addition to these basic elements, the employer and the training provider can add flexible additional content to meet the needs of the business and the local labour market.

At the end of the traineeship, each young person will be guaranteed a job interview if a role becomes available or an exit interview together with meaningful written feedback to help them secure an apprenticeship or employment with another employer.

Traineeships: overview for young people

Traineeships are an ideal opportunity for young people, aged 16 to 24, who are motivated to get a job but lack the skills and experience that employers are looking for.

Those who have been unsuccessful when applying for an apprenticeship or other job due to a lack of skills and experience are most likely be good candidates for a traineeship.

Traineeship opportunities are advertised regularly on find a traineeship.

Traineeships: overview for employers

The flexibility of traineeships offers employers the opportunity to help build a pool of high quality future recruits for your sector.

To find out more about offering traineeships and the benefits they can bring to a business, contact the National Apprenticeship Service. The National Apprenticeship Service offers free, impartial advice and support to employers. This includes simplifying the process of finding a trainee through the support of employer focused teams and find a traineeship, where employers can advertise their opportunities for free.

Traineeships: overview for training providers

Training organisations have a key role in co-ordinating the traineeship, engaging local employers to offer the work experience placements and encourage young people to participate.

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A traineeship is an education and training programme with work experience that unlocks the great potential of young people and prepares them for their future careers by helping them to become 'work ready'.

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We have made a great start to this project and already have new learners signed up in Hairdressing, Health and Social Care and Business Administration. We are working with the Jobcentre and local schools and have designed a range of new courses including our step into programmes and ESOL. We are on track to achieve our monthly targets and expect to beat this by the end of the month. Excellent work

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Woodspeen are now live!
We are pleased to have invested in our learner support platform CognAssist and would like to thank all staff for their hard work during the roll out process. There have been a few teething errors but CognAssist are working hard to help us over come these quickly. It was great to see that even on day one, we have five learners who have matched a further 21 learners who are in the process of completing the assessment and only 1 learner who has not matched . this is an amazing start.  Please can you all continue to support your learners in completing the assessment and where a need is identified encourage the learners to complete the strategies and record their feedback on the system. CognAssist is to help learners develop strategies that they can use now and in their future lives.
If you have any questions about the use of the system please feel to give Claire a call, or you can contact CognAssist on 03301243779 or email support@cognassist.com.

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You are all invited to our annual hair show on Monday 29th October 7pm at the Underground in Bradford.

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Congratulations to Cameron Rowley who won our Learner of the Month award in October. Cameron was nominated due to his hard work and dedication to his charity work. His Tutor stated that he gives up evenings and weekends to support the ongoing ‘Man Van Project’, which involves travelling up and down the country in a 38ft American-style motorhome which has been converted into a mobile barbershop and health and wellbeing centre. His work involves providing free hair cuts and in return the participants take advice away about prostate and testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. This has been a joint venture with Piranha Hair studio, The Movember charity and The Rugby League Cares Foundation and we are very proud of Cameron who will receive £25 in vouchers, as well as his Learner of the month certificate.  Well done Cameron! Keep up the great work!

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Read more about this excellent project at: http://www.rugbyleaguecares.org/news/general/man-van-gets-magnificent-reaction-rugby-league-fans/

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We have finally closed our R14 upload and would like to thank you all for your hard work.

Our three top performing programmes (based on our P2 uploaded data) were:

Joint 1st place: IT Web and Telecommunications (100%) and Functional Maths (100%)

2nd place: Health and Social Care (90%)

Joint 3rd place: Management (75%) and Barbering (75%)

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Just a short note from Ivor

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97% of our employers stated that they would consider offering similar training opportunities to other employees as a result of their employee’s training with Woodspeen.

95% of our employers would recommend Woodspeen Training to other organisations.

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98% of learners stated that they were ‘happy’ or ‘very happy’ with the training and overall service they received from Woodspeen

96% of learners stated that they ‘would recommend Woodspeen to others’

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94% of our staff members are now grade 2 or above.

Well done to all our staff for their hard work in curriculum and resource development. We are proud of the quality of our training and the support that we provide. Keep up the great work!

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This month the management team will be exploring and self assessing the following:

How good are we at recording evidence of 20% off the job training?

How effective is our tracking of attendance and how well do we monitor and deal with non attendance?

To what extent do our learners understand how to keep themselves and others safe from radicalisation and extremism?

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A new staff CPD programme will be rolled out in December 2018.

We also have the opportunity to attend an external training course on 15th November 2018 ‘Effective Practice in Assessment and Tracking: An introduction’. This course will explore teaching, learning and assessment approaches in maths and English and will improve learner’s progress in 1-1 and group situations. Please contact Charlotte Ettenfield if you would like to attend.

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Effective Practice in assessment and trackingWYLP

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At the request of staff members we have sourced an external trainer to come to the Huddersfield centre on Wednesday 7th November 2018 and deliver Dyslexia awareness training. We look forward to receiving your feedback after the training.

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Woodspeen will be hosting a staff development day on Friday 14th December 2018. The details will be confirmed nearer the time so please save the date!

The morning will be dedicated to Ofsted preparation and sharing of good practice.

We will then have Christmas lunch and afterwards some staff are planning to head to Huddersfield town centre to party the night away. Don't forget your dancing shoes!

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Well done to the following staff members who have completed their qualifications:

Jamie Shaw- Level 3 ICT

Damian Wales- Level 3 Business Administration

Grace Morgan Hudson- Level 2 Business Administration

Good luck to Damian and Grace who have also progressed onto advanced learning programmes.

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Happy Birthday to the following staff members who are due to celebrate being another year younger:

Tina Rudge
Craig Willoughby
Hannah Grady

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This is a time when we highlight and celebrate the achievements of the black community and uncover hidden history about our communities.

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Black History Month 2018 | Black History Month Celebrating the Great Black British Achievers

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Black History Month 2018 - Official Black History Month

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Black History Month Magazine 2018 and website are the central point of focus for a nationwide celebration of Black History Month throughout Britain

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A two minute silence is observed at 11am on 11th day of the 11th month.
The Great War, or World War One, came to an end 100 years ago in 1918.  Today, this anniversary is used to remember everyone that has died while at war.

Don't forget your poppy!

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Each year, veterans participate in the March Past. Places to take part in the Cenotaph March Past on Remembrance Sunday 2019 will be allocated through associations. If you are an individual wishing to apply for tickets, please contact your relevant association.

The number of people who can take part in the March Past is limited to 10,000 people due to capacity and the amount of time participants can reasonably be expected to stand. To achieve fair allocation and wide representation of veterans, the Legion will be rigorously applying the eligibility criteria for the March Past. This is an ex-service personnel March therefore family representatives will not be eligible to participate.

Ex Service Associations can register there interest to take part in the Cenotaph Parade by emailing Cenotaph@britishlegion.org.uk. Further information on applying for tickets will be available in Spring 2019.

We will be bringing forward the application dates and deadlines so that associations will have the opportunity to reapply for tickets in August should the full 10,000 tickets not be used. The below dates will be the 2019 deadlines:

April - Registration email goes out to associations.

June - Application deadline.

End of June - The Royal British Legion will confirm with associations the number of tickets they have been allocated.

August - Deadline for associations to complete participant information.

End of August - Application will re-open for associations to register additional participants. This will only occur if all 10,000 tickets have not been allocated from the previous stage.

End of September - Final deadline for all participant information.

October - Tickets and Joining Instructions sent to associations.

If you wish to attend the service as a spectator, you can find further information on the website of the Department of Culture, Media & Sport. The event is open to the public and tickets are not required.

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Each year, veterans participate in the March Past. Places to take part in the Cenotaph March Past on Remembrance Sunday 2019 will be allocated through associations. If you are an individual wishing to apply for tickets, please contact your relevant association.

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This website presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the British Isles. While it is primarily designed to support teachers and students studying migration to Britain, its aim is to be a useful resource for anyone interested in Britain’s migration history.

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Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.

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Joint statement: the UK's human rights and equality bodies on Brexit

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Joint statement: the UK's human rights and equality bodies on Brexit | Equality and Human Rights Commission

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We are particularly concerned that loss of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU will lead to gaps in protection and that removing the Charter as part of the Brexit process would create significant legal uncertainty; retained law would simply be incomplete without it.

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Woodspeen in the Community- Food for thought campaign

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Woodspeen in the Community- Food for thought campaign

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Due to the enormous success of last years initiative where Woodspeen collected and handed over large parcels of food and toiletries to several food banks in Huddersfield and Halifax then we have decided that we will be doing this again. This year we plan to collect for food banks in Bradford and Wakefield. Empty parcel boxes will be placed in reception in Huddersfield where staff and learners can add their donations. Suggested donations could include: canned/ dried food, long life milk, biscuits, sweets, toiletries, tooth brushes, tooth paste, deodorant, soap, nappies and baby and personal care products. Let’s make this year even more successful and help as many families across West Yorkshire, who are facing difficulties this Christmas.

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Woodspeen are proud to support Children in Need again this year and therefore we will be holding a range of fundraising events on the week commencing 12-16th November 2018. These include a bun sale, name the teddy bear and a dress down event. Please send any additional fundraising ideas that you have to Damian Wales. Click below to find out more about the important work that CIN do.

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BBC Children in Need awards grants each year to organisations

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November gives us the opportunity to promote the Movember campaign. The Movember Foundation is uniquely placed to address and support men’s health. On average men experience longer-term health problems than women and die on average six years earlier. Do your learners know that:
• Prostate cancer rates will double in the next 15 years
• Testicular cancer rates have already doubled in the last 50 years.
• Three quarter of people who commit suicide are men. This means that half a million men take their own life every year. That’s one every minute.

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Sorry, the Movember website requires javascript.

To help you enable javascript in your browser, here is a google search for instructions.

© 2021 Movember Europe. All rights reserved. Movember Europe is a registered charity No.1137948 (England/Wales) SC041981 (Scotland)

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To help you enable javascript in your browser, here is a google search for instructions. © 2021 Movember Europe. All rights reserved. Movember Europe is a registered charity No.1137948 (England/Wales) SC041981 (Scotland)

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Don't take fine for an answer.

Every week 1 in 6 of us experiences mental health problems (Mental Health Foundation)

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/

If you are concerned about yourself or some body else then call the Safeguarding team on 07931719351

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Short snappy video clip about thinking before posting online

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Short video about making assumptions

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Too Quick To Judge (Touching Short-Film)

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Short video clip which could be used with adult learners to introduce the concept of radicalisation and grooming (to protect self, families and staff members)

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NSPCC: Parents worried about radicalisation

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Thought provoking video clip about stereotypes, considering what others are going through and covering mental health awareness.

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Powerful video  Can't explain it  just watch

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What was Woodspeen’s overall and  timely 2017/2018 Apprenticeship success data?

All staff members who submit a correct answer to Grace Hudson Morgan by 1st November 2018 will be entered into a prize draw.

One person will be picked at random to win £25 for a charity of their choice.