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Designated teachers for cared for Children network
- Rochdale Virtual School would like to welcome you to attend the Termly Designated Teachers Network sessions.
- The sessions aim to provide support, advice, guidance and bespoke training to assist you in championing the needs of Rochdale’s cared for children and removing barriers to learning
The focus of this session will be working collaboratively with our designated teacher to evaluate and co-produce an revised proforma of our existing ‘All about me’ document to ensure we are capturing the voices of our young people in the most effective and child centred way possible as part of their personal education plan. We would love this to developed in partnership with our designated teachers and would encourage our DT’s to attend and contribute to this work. We will also be focuings on target setting and effective PP+ spending to remove barriers to learning.
Dates:
3rd Oct 1-3pm
23rd Jan 1-3pm
8th May 1-3pm
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Christopher Tyler (Virtual Headteacher, RMBC)
Christopher Tyler
Christopher is Virtual Head Teacher of our Virtual School. The school supports our Cared for Children (Looked After Children), previously Cared for and those with a social worker. He’s worked here since 2015, before which he was VHT for Staffordshire. He has worked for the National Strategies’ ‘Narrowing the Gap’ team and led Manchester’s vulnerable and mobile children team. He is a secondary English teacher by training and has worked extensively with marginalised and vulnerable children, including Gypsy Roma Traveller children and as a teacher for the Roberts’ Bros. Super Circus school.