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The Incel Ideology, Online Extremist Ecosystems, and Their Impact on Young People: What School Staff Need to Know

This webinar explores the nature of how young people engage with incel and other extremist content online in Britain today. Dr Lewys Brace explains ‘where we are’ with this kind of ideology and the extent to which children and young people are engaging with it. He discusses the sites and online spaces that young people are inhabiting, explains the worldview and language used by these online communities and highlights any known red flags.

February 5, 2023

Reducing the Risk of Severe Allergic Reactions and Getting Things Right in Schools

Managing pupils’ allergies can be a challenging business. In this webinar, one of the leading paediatric allergy experts in the country, Professor Adam Fox, is joined by allergy parent, Sarah Knight of The Allergy Team – an organisation offering support and training to schools and families. Together, they discuss what ‘optimal’ looks like, outlining what every school needs to know about allergy care and the steps required to reduce the risk of severe allergic reaction. Schools are advised to ensure that as many staff as possible watch this webinar, particularly those from medical teams, senior leadership, pastoral care and catering departments.

January 29, 2023

Adolescent Girls’ Friendships: A Summary of the Available Literature with Tanya Manchanda

PhD student, Tanya Manchanda talks us through everything that we need to know about girls’ friendships during adolescence (between the ages of 10 and 24). She focuses on the links between friendships and mental health, how friendships gain more importance during adolescence, their importance to young people’s wellbeing and common friendship issues. She finishes with some tips for nurturing positive relationships that can be used at home or in school.

December 15, 2022

Festive Wellbeing for Teachers: Tip Sheet

Our ten top tips for a happy, healthy, restorative festive break.

December 13, 2022

Minding Ourselves: Wellbeing Tips for Teachers Ahead of the Christmas Period (Video)

In this video, we outline some quick tips for wellbeing to help hard working teachers and school staff relax over the festive period.

December 13, 2022

Practising Being Organised: Teacher Guidance and Presentation

This teacher guidance accompanies the video resource “Practising Being Organised” and takes you through how to implement this video in class, step by step. It has been created with 11-12 year olds in mind. It encourages young people to consider what it feels like when we are disorganised and how putting a little effort into organisation can make our everyday lives less stressful. It goes on to provide lots of easily actionable tips for getting practised at being organised.

November 25, 2022

Personal Hygiene Lessons: Teacher Guidance and Presentation

This teacher guidance accompanies the video resource “Personal Hygiene: Presentations for 11/12 Year Olds” and takes you through how to implement this video in class, step by step. It features two short lessons might be used in PSHE lessons. The first is ‘My Changing Body’, and the second focuses on self-care strategies, periods and how to clean our bodies effectively. Both presentations contain discussion points to prompt group or paired conversations in class. The second lesson is focused mainly on the female body.

November 25, 2022

Making Sense of Emotions and Learning to Handle Them: Teacher Guidance and Presentation

This teacher guidance accompanies the video resource “Making Sense of Emotions and Learning to Handle Them” and takes you through how to implement this lesson, step by step. The presentation for pupils has been created with 11-13 year olds in mind. It aims to help young people to recognise their emotions, provides helpful advice on developing strategies for handling them and talks about how to be a good friend to others. It’s packed full of practical questions and activities which will get your students thinking!

November 24, 2022

Practising Being Organised

This presentation has been created with 11-12 year olds in mind. It encourages young people to consider what it feels like when we are disorganised and how putting a little effort into organisation can make our everyday lives less stressful. It goes on to provide lots of easily actionable tips for getting practised at being organised. Great to use as the foundation of a lesson, this presentation has plenty of places where children are encourage to stop, talk to a friend, reflect and come up with ideas.

November 21, 2022

Personal Hygiene: Presentations for 11/12 Year Olds

This video has been created with 11-12 year olds in mind and might be used in PSHE lessons or form time. It features two short lessons; the first is ‘My Changing Body’ and the second focuses on self-care strategies, periods and how to clean our bodies effectively. Both presentations contain discussion points to prompt group or paired conversations in class. The second lesson is focused mainly on the female body.