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Keeping Children Safe As you are aware, our main priority as a school is to ensure that all of the young people in our community are safe and cared for. With that in mind, during the last academic year we launched Personal Development lessons which were structured lessons that focussed on key aspects of life that affect our young people. We delivered sessions on sexting, mental health and emotional well-being, drug and alcohol abuse and healthy eating and physical activity. Over 120 pupils provided feedback on their Personal Development sessions and the general consensus was that the students found the sessions useful, developing their understanding of each topic that was covered. We plan to continue to deliver Personal Development sessions during this academic year, but we have changed the topics that we are going to study. Each cohort will follow a different programme of study. Topics that will be covered include radicalisation and extremism, children’s rights, internet safety and the use of social media. For further information about this area of study and for all matters relating to safeguarding and child protection, please go to our school website which has some useful links outlining websites which can offer support for a range of different topics. NEWS ABOUT WORK-RELATED LEARNING… Last Friday a group of over forty students from years 7 and 8 visited King’s Mill Hospital to participate in the County Council’s “Health and Social Care Skills Show.” Students enjoyed a range of “hands-on” activities in a number of workshop sessions including triage, the role of science in healthcare and developing their compassion and caring skills. This hugely worthwhile experience gave students a unique insight into careers in the NHS including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and the pathways to becoming a nurse or doctor. You can see from some of the photos accompanying this article that this was a stimulating and very rewarding experience for all who attended. FOR YEAR 10 STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS…Work Experience Week (WEW) We invite students and their parents to an Information Evening about this event on Tuesday 16 th January 2018 when you’ll be guided through how to find a placement and how to make the most of this exciting opportunity to experience the world of work. Those who attended last year found attendance at this event gave them a head-start when it came to securing placements. A second date for your diary…the compulsory WEW for our year 10 students begins on Monday 25 th June 2018. That may seem a long way off, but it’s a good idea if students start thinking about the kind of placement they might like now. This week builds on an experience all year 10 students will have in mid-November when each will meet an employer and be given a “mock interview.” Lastly you may like to know that Miss Southgate now leads the school’s work-related learning initiatives, working alongside Mr Pringle. 2
Geography Trip to Ceredigion Bay, in Wales Recently, we took our Year 13 Geographers to Ceredigion Bay in Wales to collect data for their Geography coursework. The students have a range of areas of interest for their independent investigations including sand dune ecology, the impacts of globalisation and how climate change is affecting this area. We spent three days collecting data in Aberystwyth, Borth and Ynyslas; interviewing the public and collecting profiles of beaches and sand dunes were just some of the activities we took part in. The students were a credit to themselves and the school in their interactions with the public and the care they showed for the environments they worked in. As part of the visit we took part in a seminar with Dr Gareth Hoskins from Aberystwyth University to help prepare our students for life after A Levels. It was an excellent visit and the department is already excited for our return next September! 3 3
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