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Documents and resources from the Autum Black Children's Achievement Programme Network Meeting are now on Ednet
20/11/2008
Generic letters in different languages for schools to aid communication between school and EAL families
02/09/2008
The revised ELDA 2007-2008 guidance is now on Ednet
14/04/2008
The new ELDA documentation has been added for the Aiming Higher Co-ordnator Meeting on Friday 27th November 2007.
10/12/2007
The first edition of the combined newsletter for the National Strategies Ethnicity, Social Class and Achievement (ESCA) programmes.
29/10/2007
The Racial Incidents Reporting document has been updated. The updated document is now on Ednet.
11/10/2007
The Summer 2007 Ethnic Minority Achievement Newsletter is now on Ednet
21/09/2007
This booklet is aimed at helping to understand the health issues related to fasting, to help people make more informed choices, minimise complications and maximise the benefit of the fast.
19/09/2007
Guidance for Ramadan and Eid 2007 are now on Ednet.
19/09/2007
The Racial Incidents Reporting section has now been updated. The Guidance on recording and reporting of racist incidents in schools is now on Ednet too.
17/07/2007
Summer Network Meeting 2007 Minutes and Resources from the meeting are now on Ednet.
19/06/2007
The government has released a non statutory guidance document on safeguarding children from Abuse linked to a Belief in Spirit Possession
05/06/2007
In acknowledgement of the Bicentennial of the Abolishment of the British involvement in the Slave Trade, An African centred look of the holocaust of enslavement. Please select "Afrikan Diaspora" from the menu link on the left.
23/05/2007
In December of 2006, The DfES released some new guidance on recording and reporting of racist incidents in schools. In light of this and other new equality based legislation, Kirklees has developed updated guidance on recording and reporting on racist incidents for schools. We would appreciate comments from schools on the document by 25th may 2007.
11/05/2007
The Annual Report for Racist Incidents in Kirklees Schools 2005-2006 is available for you to view. All Headteachers and Chair of Governors will be receiving a copy in the post soon. We would encourage all schools to share this report with all staff.
11/05/2007
The gender equality duty came into force in April 2007 and requires all public bodies, including schools, to eliminate unlawful discrimination and harassment on grounds of sex and to promote equality of opportunity between women and men. The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) published guidance on the duty for schools
19/04/2007
Issue 1 of the English as an additional language programme newsletter is now on Ednet
04/04/2007
Teaching units to support guided sessions for writing in English as an additional language (pilot material)
04/04/2007
The Spring 2007 MEAP newsletter is now on Ednet.
26/03/2007
Documents and PDM links added for the Aiming Higher Co-ordnator Meeting on Tuesday 6th March 2007
20/03/2007
KS3 MEAP Project Spring Network Meeting 2007 documents are now on Ednet
19/03/2007
Information & Guidance for Schools for meeting the needs of Muslim pupils in state schools
08/03/2007
Cambridgeshire County Council has translated Mathematics and Science word lists into Russian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Slovakian and Latvian as well as Polish. They have recently added an A4 summary of The English Education System into Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Latvian and Tagalog. They are also in the process of posting some key words for Year 7 Maths in Czech, Polish, Portuguese, Slovakian and Lithuanian.
If you are interested you should go to the home page and search for the language you need.
08/03/2007
The Ethnic Minority Achievement Newsletter Spring 2007 is now on Ednet
09/02/2007
The NUT/NALDIC 2006 survey on the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant documents are now on Ednet
02/02/2007
New starters, updated roles and responsibilities have been added to EMA.
18/01/2007
Documents from the Aiming High Heateacher meeting on the 7th November 2006 are now on Ednet
09/01/2007
Supplementary Schools is now on Ednet under Ethnic Minority Achievement and Equalities
20/12/2006
Issue 5 of the Minority Ethnic Achievement Project Newsletter is now on Ednet
14/12/2006
The Black Children's Achievement programme newsletter is now on Ednet
04/12/2006
Seminar 28th November for Leading for high aspirations.
20/11/2006
The latest issue of the Ethnic Minority Achievement Unit Newsletter, Autumn 2006 is now on Ednet.
26/10/2006
The updated Islamic Calendar is now on Ednet
12/10/2006
The STAGE Results, Review and Targets 2006 & 2008 are now on Ednet.
04/10/2006
The latest Minority Ethnic Achievement Project Newsletter is now on Ednet
28/09/2006
New Template documents added to the KS3 MEAP Project
26/09/2006
Ramadan and Eid 2006 guidance document
25/09/2006
The Black Children's Achievement Programmes Kickstart meeting 12-09-06.
18/09/2006
New Courses and Support for 2006-2007 added for EMA
29/08/2006
Black Children's Achievement newsletter, Summer 2006
08/08/2006
Joint EMA Headteacher and EMA Co-ordinator Conference held on Tuesday 20 June 2006
08/08/2006
Significant Islamic dates for the school year September 2006 – July 2007
19/07/2006
The Summer 2006 Newsletter is now on Ednet
19/07/2006
The Summer/Autumn Network Meetings 2005 information is now on Ednet
30/06/2006
Minority Ethnic Achievement Project report September 2004 - March 2006
21/06/2006
Summer Network Meeting 2006 minutes now on Ednet
15/06/2006
Ethnic Minority Achievement Unit Newsletter Spring 2006
06/06/2006
The Ethnic Minority Achievement Newsletter for Spring 2006 is now on Ednet.
07/04/2006
Black Dimensions - Eygpt The Historical Accomplishments of Kemet have been added top to the site
29/03/2006
This new advice is focused around how to prevent bullying and what to do when it happens. The documents includes messages from pupils, their thoughts and feelings, how to effectively deal with incidents and starting points for whole school evaluation and curriculum planning. The documents also include materials for in service training and CPD. Here you will find links to over 100 useful websites.
22/03/2006
Show Racism the Red Card is an anti-racist charity, which specialises in producing educational resources. These include videos, a DVD, magazines, posters and education packs. The aim of the project is to combat racism through the use of footballers as anti-racist role models and they have the backing of many top managers and players. This is the sixth successive year that they have run an anti-racist schools competition and it is an extremely useful way of encouraging young peoples’ interest in anti-racism. Closing date for registrating interest is 28th February. See attached document for further details of the rules or visit www.srtrc.org for further information.
23/01/2006
The STAGE proforma on ednet has now been updated and edited to make it more user friendly.
If you haven't already inputted your data onto the previous version, please can you use the new version
11/11/2005
The EMA & Equalities Autumn 2005 Newsletter is now ready to view.
28/10/2005
EMA Job Descriptions are now on Ednet
20/10/2005
The Truth about Asylum Newsletter, is now on Ednet to view.
14/10/2005
Find out about the Eid Guidance for 2005.
28/09/2005
Black History Month
23/09/2005
The FAQ's section on EMA is now live
09/09/2005
New Resources section has been added.
01/09/2005
The EMA and Equalities section has been updated.
26/08/2005
The Calendar is based on a lunar cycle and has twelve months. These months begin at sunset, when the new moon is sighted. The lunar year is approximately 354 days long. We have added details of all the important Islamic holidays on Ednet as well as details of how the calendar works.
19/04/2005
This is document has been produced by the Muslim Welfare House Trust and is a very useful guidance document for schools.
15/04/2005
Information about supporting asylum seeking and refugee pupils in Kirklees schools.
07/04/2005
This is a brief introduction and guidance to the religious festival of Ramadan and Eid.
13/10/2004
The LEA has a duty to collate and report all racial incidents reported by schools. This is overall report on the number and nature of racial incidents and does not identify individual schools or pupils.
Copies of the current guidance and the reporting form are supplied in the Ethnic Minority Achievement section on Ednet.
12/03/2004
