Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service – Prince’s Trust – unique opportunty
A free course for 16-25 year olds from The Princes Trust.
For more information, please click here.
To view and download the application and referral form, please click here.
For more information, please click here.
To view and download the application and referral form, please click here.
Safer Internet Day 2022 is on the 8th of February and will be celebrated with the theme ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’.
Safer Internet Day 2022 celebrates young people’s role in creating a safer internet, whether that is whilst gaming and creating content, or interacting with their friends and peers.
Speaking with young people is key to exploring their experiences on platforms where they can play games, interact with their peers and others, and take part in ‘live’ experiences such as video streaming. These platforms play such an important and positive role, providing young people with the means to interact with friends and as a great pastime, particularly during lockdowns.
However, there are some emerging safety issues in these spaces as well as issues young people have been navigating for some time; particularly the lack of respect individuals display towards each other, groups ‘ganging up’ against other groups, and the sense that it is easy to ‘get away’ with negative behaviour such as meanness, bullying and swearing. They speak about hate directed at particular groups, particularly LGBT+ users, and misogyny on gaming platforms. They tell us the apparent lack of consequences for negative behaviour has an impact on their safety and wellbeing.
We need to address these issues so that all young people understand what constitutes respectful behaviour online, and know what to do if they encounter hate or bullying directed at them or someone else.
As a school, we have planned activities for students in their ICT lessons. There is also a lot of guides, resources and advice on the UK Safer Internet Centre to help keep your child safe online. This can be accessed by clicking here.
If you have any concerns regarding your child’s safety online, or need any advice, please do not hesitate to contact school where staff will be able to help you.
Roy Bellmon
Deputy Headteacher – Curriculum and Safeguarding Lead
Thursday 27th January 2022
Dear parents/carers,
I would like to invite you to attend our virtual parents’ evening on Thursday 27th January 2022. This is an important evening and provides you with an opportunity to meet your child’s teachers (virtually). Appointments will be taken between 3:00pm and 6:30pm for staff who teach year 12.
We have introduced a new, easy to use online appointment booking system. This allows you to choose your own appointment times with teachers and you will receive an email confirming your appointments. We are using an innovative system that allows us to use video calling to communicate between parents and teachers (school cloud). This is temporarily replacing in-school parents’ evenings. We feel a video appointment will be a useful replacement at this point in time.
Appointments can be booked from 8am on Wednesday 12th January and will close on Monday 24th January at 6pm. Should you wish to make any changes after this date please contact the school.
Please visit https://sthildascofe.schoolcloud.co.uk/ to book your appointments. (Please click here to access our short guide on how to add appointments). Please read it carefully, follow the link to the correct page and please remember to input information correctly. The information you are inputting must match up to the information stored on our school system. If you are a Miss the system defaults to Ms. This may help when adding your details to the system.
If there are any issues please get in touch.
Yours sincerely
Ms Andrea Howard, Head of College/Assistant Headteacher
Dear parents/carers,
You may find this report and guide for parents/carers useful when talking to your daughter/son.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can help you or if you have any concerns.
Mr Roy Bellmon – Deputy Headteacher Curriculum and Safeguarding
The Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza DBE, has recently published a guidance document for parents helping to support them to understand online sexual harassment. It is a sensitive topic, and not one all parents feel comfortable discussing with their children.
The commissioner’s team brought together a group of 16 – 21 year olds and asked them talk about what they think parents should know, and what they should say to their children when talking about sexualised bullying and the pressures of growing up online.
Key advice from the young adults in the focus groups included:
The report and poster ‘The things I wish my parents had known…’ can be downloaded here: https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/report/talking-to-your-child-about-online-sexual-harassment-a-guide-for-parents/
We are delighted to be able to welcome you to St Hilda’s College. Our Open Evening will be held on Thursday 11th November 2021, with two separate sessions available.
The first will begin at 4pm and have the following timings:
4-4:30pm – talk from Headteacher and Head of College
4:35-4:55pm – subject 1
5:00-5:20 – subject 2
5:25 – 5:45 – subject 3
5:50 – 6:10 – subject 4
The second session available will have the following timings (6:00-8:10pm):
6:00-6:30 -talk from Headteacher and Head of College
6:35-6:55pm – subject 1
7:00-7:20 – subject 2
7:25 – 7:45 – subject 3
7:50 – 8:10 – subject 4
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the Headteacher talk to enable a prompt start to the evening.
We will be running our Open Evening as a ticketed event via Eventbrite. You will be required to select which session you wish to attend, and book tickets for the talk along with your four subject choices. Please ensure you book one subject per session. Additionally, please book one ticket per person attending.
Link for the 4:00-6:10pm session:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-hildas-college-open-evening-400-610-tickets-190415496877
Link for the 6:00-8:10pm session:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-hildas-college-open-evening-600-810-tickets-190443370247
To Parents and Carers
We are really excited to announce that Kooth Plc can now provide support for both children and young people AND their parents/carers across Liverpool. Kooth is available for all children and young people age 10 – 25 and Qwell is available to all parents and carers aged 26+.
On Wednesday 13th October at 6pm we would like to invite all parents and carers along to our ‘Discover Kooth & Qwell’ event via Zoom to find out how we can support both you and your child with your mental health.
For more information, please click here.
Work placement will take place between 5th -9th July 2021. This can be face to face or virtual. If face to face your work placement agreement must be signed by year 12 student, parents and the employer before you go out on placement. All students will receive a work placement booklet to complete whilst out of school.
To view the opportunities as a PDF, please click here.
Please find details of the new TALK campaign from the Internet Watch Foundation
A new IWF safety campaign aims to help parents have conversations with their children about keeping their ‘door’ closed to child sexual abusers. The campaign includes a booklet for parents, explaining the risks, explaining why children are vulnerable, and suggests practice steps that parents can take.
The mnemonic used in the campaign is TALK:
For further details go to: https://talk.iwf.org.uk/