Education, Aspiration, Success
Welcome to the Peterborough Virtual School podcast!
Our vision is that all children known to social care will achieve educational outcomes enabling them to lead happy, healthy and fulfilled lives.
Hosted by our very own team alongside those with lived and learned experiences, this podcast is designed to help and support anyone navigating the world of education on behalf of the children they support . We explore how some of the typical barriers faced by this cohort of children can be minimised and how to maximise opportunities to ensure full educational potential is reached for each and every child.
Episodes
9 episodes
S01 E09 Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Everybody's Business
SEND and Inclusion Services in Peterborough have a specific remit to help our children and young people to achieve their potential and overcome barriers their additional needs may present to them and their educational settings.In this ep...
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27:27
S01 E08 Aiming for University: Opening Doors for Future Opportunities
In the episode, Nic is delighted to be talking with Becca Jones from the charity Become which supports children in care and care leavers. Becca offers advice and support to young people wanting to pro...
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30:12
S01 E07 Aspiration and Ambition: Empowering Children to Dream Big
Adam Tams and Anna Noble are joined in this episode by Elle Johnson, Peterborough's Care Leaver Local Offer Led, to discuss why it is so important that we work to encourage aspiration and ambition among young people. They explain the tran...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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12:47
S01 E06 Unaccompanied Children in Care: Strategies and Knowledge to Support Education
In this episode, Nic Phillips and Fran Haunch are joined by Ishmael Ngundu (Team Manager for Leaving Care). Ishmael shares his extensive knowledge and experience of the specific needs and vulnerabilities of Unaccompanied Children in Care....
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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23:58
S01 E05 Transitions and Admissions: Navigating Change, Beginnings and Endings
In today's episode, Gina Hayes and Amanda Jones from our Inclusion and Engagement team discuss the range of transitions which children may experience throughout their educational journeys - the big ones such as primary to secondary and also the...
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Episode 5
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23:03
S01 E04 Attendance Matters: Every Minute Counts
Gina Hayes and Clare Webley from Peterborough Virtual School's Inclusion and Engagement Team are your hosts for this episode. They discuss why good school attendance is so very important for all children and young people and acknowledge some of...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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39:48
S01 E02 Peterborough Virtual School: Our vision and way of working
All Children Known to Social Care will achieve educational outcomes enabling them to lead healthy, happy and fulfilled lives.Zoe Lattimer and Nic Phillips are back in this episode to explain the specific way of working in Peterbor...
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Episode 2
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19:02
S01 E03 A Right to Education: A journey through our education system
In this episode, Fran Haunch and Emma Slade from Peterborough Virtual School's Partnership and Outcomes team are joined by Peterborough's Service Director for Education, Carrie Traill.Fran, Emma and Carrie consider children's rights to e...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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36:02
S01 E01 What is a Virtual School? – Championing Education for Children Known to Social Care
In the first episode of our Peterborough Virtual School podcast, Zoe Lattimer and Nic Phillips introduce the breadth and scope of the Virtual School. They welcome John Gregg, Executive Director of Children's Services, to explore the impor...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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20:49