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latest news for hertfordshire schools - updated 6 december, 2018. driving a minibus - training from hcc now available for school staff. hertfordshire county council is now offering practical training for school staff to enable them to add minibus (d1) entitlement to their herts for learning is pleased to introduce a new service from spring 2019: occupational health services – powered by optima health. this service was previously provided to schools via hertfordshire county council (hcc), however from april 2019, hfl will be working directly herts for learning have recently seen a rise in the number of compromised office 365 accounts; in most cases the accounts have been accessed by the hacker simply guessing the users pas*word.  these are referred to as brute force attacks.  the hacker will use a program to try thousands in an automated fashion.  once the hacker gains access to the users email sometimes they are just sending lots of junk messages to other users within the school and externally.  others are sending emails internally in the schools with fake invoices and bank. lgbt history month, february 2019 – sharing good practice. hertfordshire’s lgbtq+ children and young people working group are inviting hertfordshire schools to help us to mark lgbt history month, developments in lgbtq+ that you have been involved in over 2018 or have planned for 2019 so we can share good practice in hertfordshire entries are invited for the year 5 mathematics challenge 2019. each school is encouraged to submit a team of four year 5 pupils for this. don’t miss out! final week for submitting bids for feeling good week 2019 - closing date is this friday 7th december. feeling good week will be 11th – 17th february next year. feeling good week is a hertfordshire-wide event that encourages schools and the wider community to promote children and young people’s emotional wellbeing by raising awareness of mental health and showing where support can be accessed within the community. there is opportunity to put in a funding bid for up to £500 to support activities in school