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The Hastings Opportunity Area is making up to £50k funding available for enrichment programmes
mailto:laura.starkin@eastsussex.gov.ukThe Hastings Opportunity Area is making up to £50k funding available for schools and community providers to develop and deliver sustainable enrichment programmes to disadvantaged young people living in the most deprived parts of Eastbourne, Hailsham and Newhaven....
Hastings Opportunity Area Emotional Wellbeing Keyworker Service Project features in DfE Health & Education Insight Guide
We are absolutely delighted to share with you the DfE’s latest Opportunity Areas Insight Guide, with the theme of Health and Education. This is the third in a thematic series of national publications showcasing projects from across the Opportunity Area programme,...
Hastings Opportunity Area appeals to local organisations to support school attendance
Over the last two years, we have been supporting schools to improve attendance and reduce persistent absence in the town. Research shows that missing just a few days of school a year can negatively impact on attainment, particularly given the challenging year that...
Hastings unites to tackle school attendance
A town-wide campaign to support regular school attendance during the last few weeks of term, and in preparation for the new school year, has been launched this week by Hastings Opportunity Area. Hastings Academy Principal Hilary Morawska pictured with pupils from the...
Summer’s almost here – apply now for our holiday programme
We're looking for schools and community providers to deliver a range of enrichment activities for children this summer in Hastings. You could be from the world of sport, music, forest school or wellbeing - the list is endless! We would particularly like to hear how...
Hastings Opportunity Area commits future funding to build on Maths Mastery success in schools
Hastings Opportunity Area has invested over £200k in the last year, to fund 20 schools in Hastings to embed Maths Mastery into their school curriculum approach. On May 12th, we held our Maths Mastery Conference, which was well attended by over 40 Maths leads and...
Government invest over £1.1 million to fund Hastings Opportunity Area for a further year
Today, Hastings Opportunity Area, funded by the Department of Education, are delighted to announce that the government has committed over £1.1 million to fund a further fifth year of the programme. For the fifth year of the programme, Hastings...
Free Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Training and Support for Hastings Schools
The HOA is funding ‘Boingboing Resilience CIC’, an organisation with expertise in supporting schools to develop their work to promote children’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. A training and resource guide has been produced for school leaders setting out the...
Recovery Seminar
The HOA delivered a Recovery Seminar, Wednesday 3 March 2021, to provide an opportunity for trusts, schools and other partners in Hastings and East Sussex to share good practise on current work to support learning recovery in schools. Keynote speaker Barry Carpenter...
Literacy
As we turn the page on another World Book Day, we thought it would be fitting to catch up with one of our partners - Education Futures Trust - on the work it has been doing with children in Hastings to boost literacy. Education Futures Trust was established in 2012,...
Enrichment IT and Online Learning Support
In January, Hastings Opportunity Area committed £100k of further funding for trusts, schools and community providers to support children and young people's access to learning and enrichment activities during the most recent lockdown period and to support their...
Hastings Opportunity Area commit £100k emergency funding to support home learning
Today, Hastings Opportunity Area, funded by the Department for Education, are delighted to announce their commitment to funding a strengthened approach to home learning during lockdown 3. A further £100k of funding, is being made available to all schools and Trusts...
Training videos for schools on how to teach RSHE
The second series of videos produced by our partners Boing Boing – experts in mental health – introduce important aspects of the new statutory RSHE/PHSE. INTRODUCTION TO STATUTORY RSHE (PSHE) The first of this three-part training video, introduces important...
Tip sheets to support children’s mental health
The Hastings Opportunity Area are working in partnership with Boingboing (CIC), to provide mental health and emotional wellbeing support for schools, families, children and young people. Boingboing are releasing a series of mental health and emotional wellbeing top...
Support videos to help schools with staff wellbeing
In response to the challenging circumstances, we’ve partnered with Boingboing - experts in mental health - to create a selection of videos to help support staff and their wellbeing. PRINCIPLES OF OUR APPROACH This video outlines Boingboing’s Resilience...
HOA Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing training and support package for Hastings schools
Due to Covid 19 children, young people and school staff are having to manage a whole host of new emotional life experiences and challenges. Boingboing CIC are able to offer free support for schools to further implement whole school approaches to supporting children...
Hastings Opportunity Area Inclusion Update – December 2020
The inclusion strand for year 4 aims to further embed and build on HOA funded inclusion work developed within the 3 Hastings mainstream secondary schools over the last 2 years. In addition, we seek to further promote effective inclusive practice and shared working...
Hastings Opportunity Area Literacy Update – December 2020
We have now released funding for 20 schools across Hastings to deliver evidence-based literacy programmes. This builds on existing work by a number of Trusts who were already delivering evidence-based programmes prior to the HOA, and on the work of many Trusts and...