ECS Staff Induction 2024
Staff induction this Summer 2024 will be a combination of online and face-to-face. Please register and note dates and times of relevant online sessions below for your area of work so that you do not miss these.
Face-to-face training in Dorset will start at 10am on 5 July 2024 at Lox Lane Farm, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9PU. We will move to Port Regis School on 6 July to settle in and continue planning before pupils arrive on 7 July.
Online training:
- Everyone, please complete the online safeguarding course here and send us your certificate so we know you have done it.
- Get Ready for Summer - social programmes and activities. Watch the video here.
- time tba - Environmental Induction. Online zoom session. Watch the recording here. You can also watch a short video, How to Talk with Children about Climate Change, here.
- time tba - Social Programme Safeguarding. Online zoom session. Register here
- time tba - General Introduction to the summer - a chance to meet others and ask questions. This will be an online Zoom meeting for everyone. Register here
- Online resources database - see https://countryschools.infomanaged.co.uk/ - there is a training video for academic staff here.
- Information documents. Many of these will have been sent with contracts, but please see below and read everything relevant to your post:
- ECS web site - all staff to gain a general understanding of our current offering to parents and pupils
- Notes for Staff - main working document for all staff
- Background: Academic Staff and Academic Map 2024 - all academic staff
- Background: Activity Assistant and Activities Map 2024 - all activity staff
- Workshop Planning Notes - all academic staff
- Background information for house parents & House Parent Map - all house parents and assistants
- Airport Map - all staff going to the airport
- Notes for Parents and Notes for Students and Clothes List - house parents
- Home Sickness guide for staff - house parents
- Covid notes - all staff
- Child Safeguarding document - all staff
- Excursions Guide - Recreation Programme Organiser and all staff who will be helping.
- Timetables: Weekday timetable, Saturday / Sunday timetables, Placement Day timetable