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This years theme is Chornically Online. Exploring how the digital world is impacting on our attitudes and behaviours towards sex and relationships. Visit Brook's website for further information, resources and to joint them for their Big RSE Lesson: Chronically online on 16th Sepetember at 10am as part of Sexual Health Week 2025. 

View information from Talk Well on their Eating Difficulties Counselling Service. 

Self-care summer toolkit from Anna Freud Mentally Healthy Schools with lots of resources to help support and boost mental wellbeing for both students and staff over the summer and beyond.

Primary Toolkit                            Secondary Toolkit

As the summer days fade away and the familiar routine of work or school looms, we're all caught in that strange limbo between holiday memories and autumn ambitions. One minute we're planning to revolutionise our entire workflow, the next we're wondering if we still remember our computer password.

Join this webinar on Tuesday 9th September at 12:00 - 12:45, to hear insights on creating achievable goals and establishing a sustainable routine that feels rewarding rather than draining. 

Children will have experienced an average of 15 significant losses before adulthood, and may also encounter depictions of death in the media and social media, which are often explicit. The recent Covid-19 pandemic further highlighted change, loss and death, and children and their families may have experienced loss during this time.

PSHE Association have updated their Change, loss and grief lesson packs for KS1 - 4 to cover these topics safely, effectively and sensitively. ]

You will need a PSHE account to download these resources.

New data commissioned by domestic abuse charity Refuge reveals the scale of domestic abuse is significantly underestimated.  Read the full blog around the impactful educational campaign created in response.

Poor mental health and absence from school are impacting the education of children and in turn their futures. Read the full blog from GOV.UK on 'How we're helping children and teachers with their mental health and wellbeing' 

The results for the Pupil Wellbeing Survey have now been published. Click here to see the report.

Surfers Against Sewage "Plastic Free Schools" iniatitive is empowering the next generation of ocean activists. To find out more and sign your school up click here

Useful article from Claire Watts from High Speed Training, on what "Incel" means, the manosphere, and how this correlates to misogyny, radicalisation, and violence. This article looks at why teachers should be aware of Incel Culture and how Schools can tackle this issue.

The NHS Gloucestershire Asthma Team are looking into the current management of asthma in schools across the county. We would be very grateful if you could complete this questionnaire. The feedback you provide will be treated in the strictest confidence.  It will be stored securely and only used to improve this service. Thank you in advance for your responses. 

Please click here to complete the questionnaire. 

Please click here to view AFS resources. 

Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is an engaging child-led, parent/guardian supported therapeutic intervention that can be used on most smartphones or tablets free for all Gloucestershire families. 

It facilitates graded exposures (the active ingredient of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) with psychoeducation to empower 7-12 year olds with mild to moderate needs to learn to self-manage fears, worries and anxiety.

 

 

myHappymind is an award winning programme for schools & nurseries, families and organisations. It is delivered by class teachers across 5 modules, all designed to develop critical knowledge and habits that support children’s mental health. This means that children can develop a toolkit of resources to use when they need to. For further information on the pilot click here

After the outbreak of war in Ukraine in early 2022, we all saw how the resulting conflict impacted tens of thousands of children through separation, loss or bereavement. Bear Us In Mind was launched to provide early intervention to support those children and the adults in their lives.

Whether you’re a teacher, teaching assistant, Head, Governor or a supporting adult from the child’s school or local community, Bear Us In Mind is designed to help you be a compassionate and confident thinking partner for a child when it’s most needed. Download the complete Bear Us In Mind toolkit guide here To receive your 'bear in a box' email ghll@gloucestershire.gov.uk 

Mental Health e-learning - Children and Young People's Mental Health

This short course will provide you with information and guidance to help support the young people you work alongside.

The course will introduce you to some common mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties, and will provide you with practical examples that you can use to help you to recognise and respond to children’s emotional health and wellbeing.

 

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Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education

View the new statutory guidance from the Department of Education for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. 

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025

View the new KCSIE statutory guidance from the Department of Education for schools and colleges. 

National Education Nature Park

The National Education Nature Park is a free, fully resourced programme for all nurseries, schools, and colleges in England. It empowers young people to improve their educational site for nature by participating in real scientific research and being involved in decisionmaking. It aims to: support the curriculum, promote outdoor learning, upskill educators, improve wellbeing, tackle biodiversity loss, reduce inequalities around green space, and support schools with their climate action plans. 

For more information download the flyer. 

Is surveillance culture fuelling child cyberstalking?

Children being drawn into a world of cyberstalking need to be educated about healthy relationships in the digital age, says Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips.

Her comments came in response to a BBC investigation that found some children as young as 10 and 11 had been reported to police forces in England for suspected cyberstalking offences.

Phillips told the BBC: "We really need to be out there educating young people on what healthy relationships look like and that will be part of the government's violence against women and girls’ strategy."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz63dej812qo

New Pharmacy Service for Patients

Positive news for Young people following a record pharmacy funding deal which will see new services for patients including:

  • making the ‘morning-after pill’ available free of charge at pharmacies on the NHS for the first time ever
  • offering patients suffering depression convenient support at pharmacies when they are prescribed antidepressants, to boost mental health support in the community
  • cutting red tape and bureaucracy to give patients easier access to consultations, with more of the pharmacy team able to deliver a wider number of services such as medicines and prescriptions advice, Pharmacy First services and carrying out blood pressure checks
  • boosting financial incentives for pharmacists to identify patients with undiagnosed high blood pressure and take pressure off GPs
  • boosting funding for medicine supply so patients have better access to the medicines prescribed for them. This includes writing off the historic debt linked to dispensing activity during the pandemic and increasing fees linked to dispensing prescriptions

To read the full article click here

Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning

Welcome to Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning. This is an umbrella organisation for Gloucestershire Healthy Schools and Gloucestershire Healthy FE (Further Education).

GHLL was launched in July 2012 for schools and colleges across Gloucestershire, supported by Leading Teachers.

Funding is through Public Health and by Gloucestershire County Council. Schools and colleges are offered this supported intervention at no cost.

Read more about GHLL