Every Child Matters

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Every Child Matters
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Aims

• Give a brief background to this document.
• Look at the 5 outcomes and identify what WGPS is
  doing.
• Audit what is going on in each year group.
• Identify any areas that need to be developed.

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Raise educational standards by
Key Ideas

• encouraging schools to offer a range of extended
  services that help pupils engage and achieve, and
  building stronger relationships with parents and
  the wider community and
• supporting closer working between universal
  services like schools and specialist services so
  that children with additional needs can be
  identified earlier and supported effectively.

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High expectations and a broadview of supporting
children and young people are common features of
highly successful schools.

• Schools already contribute to pupils wider well
  being through, for example
• helping each pupil achieve the highest
  educational standards they possibly can
• dealing with bullying and discrimination and
  keeping children safe
• becoming Healthy Schools and promoting healthy
  lifestyles through Personal, Social and Health
  Education lessons, drugs education, breakfast
  clubs and sporting activities

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Contd

• ensuring attendance, encouraging pupils to behave
  responsibly, giving them a strong voice in the
  life of the school and encouraging them to
  volunteer to help others
• helping communities to value education and be
  aware that it is the way out of the poverty trap
• engaging and helping parents in actively
  supporting their childrens learning and
  development.

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Workforce implications

• The DfES will continue to work with the
  signatories to the national workforce remodelling
  agreement on developing extended services in
  schools. There is no intention to create
  additional burdens for school leaders or other
  staff. Workforce remodelling should encourage
  more integrated working and will have a
  significant role to play in supporting changes in
  practice.

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The Five Outcomes
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Be Healthy

• Physically healthy
• Mentally and emotionally healthy.
• Sexually healthy
• Healthy lifestyles
• Choose not to take illegal drugs

• Healthy menus
• Fruit and water
• Wake up shake up
• PE time allocation
• Line dancing

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Stay Safe

• Safe from maltreatment, neglect, violence and
  sexual exploitation.
• Safe from accidental injury and death.
• Safe from bullying and discrimination.
• Safe from crime and anti-social behaviour in and
  out of school.
• Have security, stability and are cared for.

• Child protection policy
• Peer mediation
• Internet safety

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Enjoy and Achieve

• Ready for school
• Attend and enjoy school
• Achieve stretching national educational standards
  at primary school
• Achieve personal and social development and enjoy
  recreation.
• Parents, carers and families support learning.

• Creative days
• Attendance monitoring
• Maths DVD and parents leaflet

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Make a Positive Contribution

• Engage in decision making and support the
  community and the environment.
• Engage in law abiding and positive behaviour in
  and out of school.
• Develop positive relationships and choose not to
  bully and discriminate.
• Develop self confidence and successfully deal
  with life changes and challenges
• Develop enterprising behaviour.

• School Council
• Romanian appeal

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Achieve Economic Well-Being

• Engage in further education, employment or
  training on leaving school.
• Ready for employment.
• Live in decent homes and sustainable communities.
• Access to transport and material goods.
• Live in households free from low income.

• Wylde Cats.

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Further Reading

• http//www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/
• Every child Matters Change for Children in
  School.