All Schools
UKLA Book Awards- call out for teacher judges
The UKLA are currently inviting teachers to be judges based around the Liverpool area to become judges for the 2025 UKLA Book Awards, There are four categories for the Book Awards. 3-6+, 7-10+ and 11-14+, which are fiction and poetry, and a fourth category for Information Books, with a range from 3-14+. For further information, please see the attached information sheets and contracts.
Culturepool
Culturepool is Liverpool Cultural Education Partnership’s listings site where school staff can find training opportunities or help connect their pupils with the arts and culture in the city region. Here’s some of the recent offers on the site:
International Slavery Museum On Tour- KS2
International Slavery Museum On Tour- KS3
ACE conference
MYA are advertising a forthcoming ACE conference ‘Responding to adversity: Creating a coherent, consistent and compassionate workforce’:
Primary Schools
School Readers- volunteer readers for primary schools
Schoolreaders (www.schoolreaders.org ) a free service providing reading volunteers to primary schools. Schoolreaders work with community groups to find committed, reliable volunteers who want to share their love of reading. All volunteers matched to your school are first interviewed by the Schoolreaders team and agree to commit to a minimum of one year on the scheme and complete online training.
Registration is free and takes a few minutes. To register your school for reading volunteers click here.
If you have any questions or would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact Michelle Bailey, Northern Volunteer and School Recruitment Coordinator, at m.bailey@schoolreaders.org
Secondary Schools
NLT Secondary National Conference- 1st July at The Lowry, Salford
Hear from expert and diverse voices on the importance of literacy and communication skills, including Emeritus Professor Neil Mercer and T.S. Eliot award-winning poet Joelle Taylor. Participate in a range of interactive and engaging workshops and receive a post-conference e-resource pack. Book a place before 24th May to take advantage of their early bird ticket price of £150. The full programme and booking form can be found here.
Whole School Approach to mental health
With Exam season coming up I wanted to share with you a few resources to support your pupils. Please feel free to use and share them with your team.
- Last year’s recorded Exam Stress session can be found along with a range of other support links, in the WSA toolkit.
https://liverpoolwsadirectory.co.uk/resource-hub/
- MYA have developed some exam tips that can be shared across your social media platforms: Exam Tips 1; Exam Tips 2
- Kooth are running some support sessions for parents/carers of young people sitting exams.
In April we’re running webinars specifically to help parents and carers with children sitting exams. Please let your network of parents know about this support available, especially if they are worried about their child’s anxiety:
Also attached is some information from Bully Busters regarding some sessions they are running to support conflict resolution.
Transition Summer Schools
We have been successful in securing some funding to support summer schools for vulnerable pupils from the Families Programme. This will enable primary schools to identify pupils and liaise with secondary colleagues to ensure the best possible start for these year 7 pupils. We will also be able to offer some input from the mental health support teams around anxiety/worry, etc. A briefing will be held on zoom for Secondary colleagues who may wish to attend a briefing to find out more. This will take place on Wednesday 1st May at 2.30pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89945700987
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