Access your setting's testing data through a new portal Maintaining momentum of the rapid testing programme is key to helping break the links of transmission and helping to ensure education settings remain open to all students and staff. To help support your existing efforts in encouraging staff and students to report and participate in testing, you can now access the COVID-19 testing reporting data for your setting on the View Your Education Data (VYED) portal. To view your data, you will need to log in using either your IDAMs or DfE sign in.
You can view the reported numbers of positive, negative and void results registered by pupils and staff for tests conducted either on site via Asymptomatic Testing Site (ATS) or at home if these have been registered to your setting. The data can be used to check your understanding of your testing position, and benchmark against national data, although note that it relies on staff and students accurately registering test results and does not include results from PCR tests, community or surge testing, which should be factored in when interpreting the data. You can access the user guide and FAQs for more information. Examples to support reporting testing results We have published some examples of strategies that have worked well for schools and colleges in delivering testing and driving up participation, including clear communication, being creative, clear leadership, and regular monitoring and support. You can also find a range of Public Health England materials to help encourage participation and reporting, with additional downloadable products for areas where variants of concern have been identified. 100 million hours of tuition and more to support recovery Last week we announced our third major package of catch-up funding in our wider commitment to education recovery, taking a long-term, evidence-based approach to help children of all ages recover from the disruption of the pandemic. Supporting every child to get back on track will require a sustained and comprehensive programme of support, this next-step in the programme includes: 1. Investing in tutoring To support those most impacted by the pandemic, particularly disadvantaged students, we will be expanding for tutoring o provide up to 100 million hours of tuition for children aged 5 to 19 by 2024. In schools, this means up to 6 million tutoring courses for children aged 5 to 16 by 2024. For all 16-19 providers, this means an expansion of the 16-19 tuition fund, targeting key subjects such as maths and English and vocational courses. Read blogs from teachers in primary and secondary schools on how the National Tutoring Programme is supporting their pupils. 2. Investing in teaching We will help provide 500,000 teacher training opportunities, which includes the national roll out of the Early Career Framework reforms and the launch of new specialist and refreshed leadership National Professional Qualifications. From September, the way new teachers are inducted into the profession is changing as part of the Early Career Framework reforms. There is a range of support available to help schools meet new statutory requirements, including access to fully funded DfE-accredited providers. Sign up to receive direct updates on the ECF reforms or read about one school's experience of being involved in the early roll out. Early years practitioners will also have the opportunity for evidence-based professional development, including through new programmes focusing on key areas such as speech and language development. 3. Investing in Year 13 support Schools or colleges will be able to offer students in Year 13 the option of repeating up to a year where they have been particularly severely affected by the pandemic. Resources to help students learn about climate change A new climate change resources pack is available to help schools celebrate the growing green momentum in the UK ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, which will be held in Glasgow later this year. The Together for our Planet Schools Pack includes a Green Assembly guide to engage your students on COP26 and wider climate change conversations, creating an environment where students can discuss the small changes that can be made to make your school, and our world, greener. The pack is filled with exciting green ideas for schools, case studies of other young Climate Leaders, and external resources created by experts including WWF, National Geographic and TED. The pack has also been designed to celebrate your student "Climate Leaders", the remarkable young people who are going about their lives in quietly revolutionary ways. Further opportunities, resources and updates Here are a few things you may have missed that we hope you'll find helpful: - Summer qualifications - you may find it useful to share this article on the appeals process with pupils and parents as we approach the deadline for the submission of teacher assessed grades.
- Update for settings on recruiting foreign nationals as pupils or students. Schools and 16-19 academies should note that Brexit has not changed the rights of foreign nationals resident in the UK to access a school or academy place: admission authorities should continue to offer places to such children and young people. They must not ask for passports or other information on nationality from children or their parents before offering children a place. Read the guidance on GOV.UK for school admissions for overseas children for both state-funded and independent schools and the implications of Brexit for EEA and Swiss national children.
- Deadline for EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) application - 30 June. We would appreciate your help in reminding parents, young people and your own staff that if they are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen, they and their family members should apply to the EU Settlement Scheme. Eligible children are required to have an application in their own right because no child of any age is covered by a parent's application to the EUSS. There's more information on this on GOV.UK with additional guidance in this EUSS leaflet.
- Your questions answered on the removal of Letters and Sounds handbook from phonics – the way in which phonics is taught in schools has evolved significantly in the last 10 years. A key upcoming change in recognition of that evolution is the removal of the widely used 2007 Letters and Sounds handbook from GOV.UK and from our list of validated phonics programme.
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