EVOLVE Advice digest - educational visits news and updates

28 March 2024

Welcome/Croeso to the EVOLVE Advice Digest!

In this issue, we look at:

Need to know - Easter opening
New DfE guidance on school sport
OEAP National Guidance updates
IOSH accredited training
Advice on making the most of your visit team - webinar recording
Allergies and educational visits - watch the webinar on demand
Funding: Get Out! Grant – apply now

We’d love to hear your ideas for content you’d like to see in the Digest. Email marketing@evolveadvice.co.uk with your feedback.

Take a Break

We hope you enjoy the time off and we won’t be expecting to hear from you – or asking things of you – but we know that things don’t always go to plan, especially in schools…

Our ‘no out-of-office’ promise

Our ‘no out-of-office’ promise means that if you need support and advice, we’ll be here to help. Email advice@evolveadvice.co.uk for advice queries and one of the team will be in touch to support you.

Training and CPD

Our live EVC and Visit Leader training sessions will restart on Monday 15 April. E-learning courses are always available to join and complete at a time to suit you. These include Visit Leader e-learning, Preventing Incidents and Managing Emergencies e-learning, and Educational Visits Essentials for Heads and Senior Leaders e-learning.

ON-DEMAND E-LEARNING

New school sport guidance from DfE

The government has published new guidance on PE and sport in schools The non-statutory guidance, Enhancing physical education provision and improving access to sport and physical activity in school, sets out how schools can meet the ambitions of the national curriculum for PE, CMO guidelines and the school sport and activity action plan.

Outdoor Adventurous Activities (OAA) is the unit of work within the PE National Curriculum at Key Stage 2 and 3.

Outdoor learning can be financed by the School Sport Premium Funding meaning training for your staff on running extra and co-curricular activities can form part of your Sports Premium funding plan.

The CAAPS Programme meets the DfE 2014 National Curriculum requirements for Physical Education: Key Stage 2 - Outdoor & Adventurous Activities, i.e.

‘Pupils should be taught to take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team’

Further guidance on school sport

The Association for Physical Education (AfPE) provides support and guidance for schools on school sport, including free resources and publications and their popular PE in Schools Handbook ‘Safe Practice: in Physical Education, School Sport and Physical Activity’

Latest OEAP National Guidance updates

The following documents from OEAP National Guidance have been recently updated or created:

4.5c Transport in Private Cars - OEAP has added a model Volunteer Driver Form to help schools ensure that volunteer drivers know and fulfil their responsbiiities when driving for educational visits.

For a full list of new and updated guidance, and details of the changes, click the button below.

OEAP NATIONAL GUIDANCE UPDATES

IOSH accredited Visit Leader training

Visit Leader e-learning from EVOLVE Advice is the latest of our training courses to be accredited by the highly respected Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

View our Educational Visits e-Learning

Advice for EVCs on building an effective visit team.

At our recent Wednesday Workshop on ‘Getting the best out of your visit team’, our Adviser, Andy, provided practical advice and guidance on how to get the right people, with the right plan so they can make the right decisions on educational visits.

Don’t worry, if you weren’t able to attend, or if you came along but want to watch again, the recording is available to watch on demand – click the button below.

More Wednesday Workshops coming soon:

WATCH ON DEMAND

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Managing allergies and educational visits

Q&A webinar with The Allergy Team

Access the recording of our interactive online Q&A webinar about allergy and educational visits. The session, with EVOLVE Advice adviser Andy Smith and Sarah Knight, Founder of The Allergy Team covered a wide range of challenges faced by schools when managing allergies offsite.

The webinar is available on demand for a limited period. EVOLVE Advice schools benefit from a reduced fee of £10 to access the video on demand (usually £20).

For more information about the session, see our news post here.

GET ACCESS

Funding opportunity: Get Out! Grants

Apply for one of twelve £500 grants from EVOLVE Advice to support your offsite educational visits, and help us to help your children Get Out! You have until June to submit your application and the grants will be awarded in September.

We’re expecting lots of applications, so you’re strongly encouraged to think about how you can make your application stand out from the crowd :)

LEARN MORE AND APPLY

Featured Training

Immersive EVC and Snowsport Visits Training….in Italy!

Introducing a unique opportunity to take part in EVC and Snowsport Visit Leader training on a heavily subsidised immersive experience at Pila Ski Resort in the Italian Aosta Valley.

Taking place from 9-12 March 2025, this course combines e-learning, small group face to face training and scenario-based learning. It will be an immersive experience – you’ll live and breathe an overseas adventurous activity residential visit – and at the end of the three days, you’ll leave with two training certificates (Snowsport Visits Training & EVC Training).

This event is suitable for Visit Leaders or EVCs who plan and manage overseas visits. You do not have to be a proficient skier or snowboarder, all abilities welcome. Even if you don’t plan snowsports visits (yet!), the immersive experience will give you transferable skills for any overseas visit.

Delivered by EVOLVE Advice with expert support from Interski

BOOK YOUR PLACE

We also provide EVC Training; Visit Leader Training and e-learning; Snowsport Visits Training, Risk Assessment for Educational Visits and Visit Emergencies Training.

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