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Relationships and sex education (RSE) should be delivered by competent and confident educators.

This new resource has been written and collated by lead teachers from GHLL and a specialist sexual health nurse. It is suitable for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5.

GHLL offers this course for delivery of Secondary RSE to support the continued professional development (CPD) of teachers, PSHE leads, school nurses, youth workers and others involved in teaching RSE and providing one-to-one advice to children and young people.

The training shows guidelines in what to deliver in the Secondary RSE programme, sample lessons, some resources available, useful links, and PowerPoints. Also, guidance on how to deal with sensitive issues.

The course will take staff through the resource showing how it can be used by new staff in it’s entirety or as a pick and mix for those with more experience who want information and resources for a specific area.

It will allow staff to deliver the RSE programme with confidence. It will also give suggestions on the essential RSE polices and information to parents.

This training opportunity is offered by Karen Perryman, the Alcohol Education Trust's Coordinator for the South, West and Midlands.

The session explores the AET's Talk About Alcohol resource pack which is suitable for use with secondary school pupils. The resources are intended to bust perceptions, provide helpful information and introduce life skills to help keep young people safe around alcohol.

Talk About Alcohol resources are proven to work, fully evaluated activities that have been mapped to the Department for Education Statutory Guidelines for PSHE and RSE. They are also valuable for anyone working in Safeguarding and Family Support.

Delegates attending this training will be equipped with resources, tools and strategies to empower young people to make safe choices around alcohol. The resources include:

• The Talk About Alcohol Teacher Manual and Guidance which incorporates six readymade PowerPoint lessons that are ready to go following the training
• Four readymade SEND PowerPoint lessons
• Four Talk About Alcohol conversation starter films.

This course is open to all professionals who work with KS2 primary or secondary age young people in Gloucestershire, including teachers, senior leaders, pastoral managers, tutors, learning support workers and parent support advisors.

These courses are facilitated by Satveer Nijjar BSc (Hons) Psychology, a motivated and inspirational speaker.

Topics covered include:

• defining self-harm
• statistics on self-harm
• what leads to self-harm in young people
• what the functions of self-harm are for the young person
• myths and language use in relation to self-harm
• risk in relation to self-harm
• supporting someone who self-harms, including practical strategies

9.00am Registration     9.30am Start of Training

Discover ways to develop baseline and summative assessment methods to measure progress quickly and easily in secondary RSHE.

During this workshop, GHLL lead teachers will be available to talk you through the various GHLL primary resources, all of which have been developed by practising teachers to support your pupils in their physical and emotional development. The Lead Teachers can advise on how you can build the resources into your school’s current PSHE curriculum, and share ways in which they have been implemented in other schools and the outcomes they have provided.

You will have the opportunity to discuss methods to measure the impact of your PSHE teaching, and ways in which the children’s learning and understanding can be recorded and assessed.

Some of the resources explored in this session will include:

• Counting Sleep
• Make Me a Superhero
• Peer Mediation
• Understanding Dementia
• Keeping Myself Safe
• Focused for Learning

The last part of the session allows time for delegates to view other GHLL resources freely available to schools and the chance to share ways in which they can be mapped into your school’s provision.

Delegates will require a separate booking if they wish to also attend the morning Primary Relationships (Sex) and Health Education Curriculum Training.

Led by GHLL primary teachers, this curriculum training session will cover the statutory requirements for all primary schools under the new guidance. Delegates will explore ways in which schools can ensure their R(S)HE curriculum meets the DfE requirements, whilst also being tailored to their setting and meeting the needs of their pupils. Whether a commercial package is used to deliver the R(S)HE curriculum, or freely available resources are used, this session will help to support schools in providing a spiral, responsive, progressive curriculum, bespoke to their setting.

“The school is unafraid to adapt the PSHE curriculum as needed, and address issues as they arise.” OFSTED, 2021, Outstanding PSHE outcome.

This training session will cover:
· Current statutory requirements for R(S)HE, including policies and curriculum content
· Guidance for auditing and reviewing provision in your school
· Suggestions for parent and pupil consultation
· Understanding of the principles of good R(S)HE teaching
· Suggestions for dealing with awkward questions, setting ground rules and managing parental concerns
· Signposting to quality-marked free resources to support your curriculum
The end of the session allows time to explore the FREE GHLL resources, developed to support the delivery of the statutory R(S)HE curriculum.

Delegates are welcome stay for the afternoon GHLL Primary Resources Overview, when the GHLL resources within the R(S)HE planning framework will be explored further. A separate booking is required if you also wish to attend the afternoon session.

Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning would very much like to invite you to watch an interactive drama presentation delivered by Loudmouth Education and Training.  The play raises awareness of sexual behaviours, sexual harassment, sexual assault, pornography, consent and misogyny.

The performance explores where these behaviours are coming from and alternative positive behaviours. The best protection we can give to young people is knowledge of the dangers so that they are aware and can protect themselves, as well as letting them know where they can go for help and support if they are worried.

The Calling It Out programme supports the ongoing work in schools and colleges to create a culture where sexual harassment and sexual abuse are not tolerated and is being funded by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner and Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning, and is supported by Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership and all Partner Agencies in the county.   

This course is open to all professionals who work with KS2 primary or secondary age young people in Gloucestershire, including teachers, senior leaders, pastoral managers, tutors, learning support workers and parent support advisors.

These courses are facilitated by Satveer Nijjar BSc (Hons) Psychology, a motivated and inspirational speaker.

Topics covered include:

• defining self-harm
• statistics on self-harm
• what leads to self-harm in young people
• what the functions of self-harm are for the young person
• myths and language use in relation to self-harm
• risk in relation to self-harm
• supporting someone who self-harms, including practical strategies

9.00am Registration     9.30am Start of Training

This online training is provided by the Alcohol Education Trust.

The session is designed for anyone who supports a young person or a young adult in a professional capacity. It explores 16 to 24 year-olds choices around cannabis, myth-busting, the types of cannabis available, how cannabis can affect a young person, and the law.

The play is aimed at students in Year 7 and upwards and will tour educational settings catering for secondary aged pupils in Gloucestershire. The play and post-show talk lasts for 55 minutes and aims to raise awareness around:-

• The risks and consequences of youth violence and knife crime on the individual, on their friends, families, and on the wider community
• The influences, fears and pressures that can lead to the decision to hurt someone or to carry a knife, and how these can be managed or avoided
• The core skills that can be used help young people to navigate a whole host of issues and critical life moments that they may encounter
• The importance of seeking help and advice, or telling someone if you are concerned about yourself, a friend or someone you know.
• Where to go for help and advice

The play will be performed by Narrative Alchemy Ltd (formerly Alter Ego Creative Solutions), who have successfully delivered Chelsea’s Story, County Lines and In the Net theatre performances within Gloucestershire for a number of years.

The play is aimed at students in Year 7 and upwards and will tour educational settings catering for secondary aged pupils in Gloucestershire. The play and post-show talk lasts for 55 minutes and aims to raise awareness around:-

• The risks and consequences of youth violence and knife crime on the individual, on their friends, families, and on the wider community
• The influences, fears and pressures that can lead to the decision to hurt someone or to carry a knife, and how these can be managed or avoided
• The core skills that can be used help young people to navigate a whole host of issues and critical life moments that they may encounter
• The importance of seeking help and advice, or telling someone if you are concerned about yourself, a friend or someone you know.
• Where to go for help and advice

The play will be performed by Narrative Alchemy Ltd (formerly Alter Ego Creative Solutions), who have successfully delivered Chelsea’s Story, County Lines and In the Net theatre performances within Gloucestershire for a number of years.

The Suicide Prevention resource ‘Beyond Fed Up’ has been written by teachers for teachers, with the intention of enabling classroom teachers to tackle this sensitive subject. It aims to help young people understand their own mental health, to build resilience, know ways in which they can support other young people who are having a difficult time and to recognise when they need to seek help. Nothing can be more important for a young person than having these skills and knowledge.

The young people of Gloucestershire have told us quite clearly through the Gloucestershire Online Pupil Survey that they are finding it increasingly difficult to keep themselves mentally well. In turn, schools and colleges who are witnessing this decline in emotional health and well-being have asked for advice and support from the Lead Teachers seconded to Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning.

“It is important that the starting point for health and wellbeing education should be a focus on enabling pupils to make well-informed, positive choices for themselves” (Department for Education Statutory Health Education Guidance).

NHS Digital shows an increase in vaping, with 9% of 11-to-15-year-olds currently using e-cigarettes. This introductory session will explore how you can build vaping into the drugs and alcohol curriculum within your setting. In addition, there will be an opportunity to explore strategies to manage a range of influences on drug, alcohol and tobacco use, including peers. There will also be a discussion on how a holistic approach can be used to address incidents of vaping within your setting. 

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Delegates must attend both days in full.

To reserve a place email ghll@Gloucestershire.gov.uk

Dove Self Esteem Project - A campaign to combat self esteem and body image issues among young girls.

A session to run through resources from The Dove Project that addresses key topics including media influence, peer pressure and self esteem.

The session will also look at the training videos that Dove have produced for teachers to support the delivery of the Confident Me workshop, which include:

Introduction to body confidence
Workshop lesson plan & material
Workshop content overview
How to create the right environment
When to adapt the lesson plan
Tips for challenging questions

Discover ways to develop baseline and summative assessment methods to measure progress quickly and easily in secondary RSHE.

This course is open to all professionals who work with KS2 primary or secondary age young people in Gloucestershire, including teachers, senior leaders, pastoral managers, tutors, learning support workers and parent support advisors.

These courses are facilitated by Satveer Nijjar BSc (Hons) Psychology, a motivated and inspirational speaker.

Topics covered include:

• defining self-harm
• statistics on self-harm
• what leads to self-harm in young people
• what the functions of self-harm are for the young person
• myths and language use in relation to self-harm
• risk in relation to self-harm
• supporting someone who self-harms, including practical strategies

9.00am Registration     9.30am Start of Training

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Delegates must attend both days in full.

To reserve a place email ghll@Gloucestershire.gov.uk

An introduction to GHLL's accreditation process for the Healthy Schools award and Mental Health Champions award. This session is relevant to all Key Stages and settings.

“It is important that the starting point for health and wellbeing education should be a focus on enabling pupils to make well-informed, positive choices for themselves” (Department for Education Statutory Health Education Guidance).

NHS Digital shows an increase in vaping, with 9% of 11-to-15-year-olds currently using e-cigarettes. This introductory session will explore how you can build vaping into the drugs and alcohol curriculum within your setting. In addition, there will be an opportunity to explore strategies to manage a range of influences on drug, alcohol and tobacco use, including peers. There will also be a discussion on how a holistic approach can be used to address incidents of vaping within your setting. 

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Delegates must attend both days in full.

To reserve a place email ghll@Gloucestershire.gov.uk

An introduction to GHLL's accreditation process for the Healthy Schools award and Mental Health Champions award. This session is relevant to all Key Stages and settings.

This course is open to all professionals who work with KS2 primary or secondary age young people in Gloucestershire, including teachers, senior leaders, pastoral managers, tutors, learning support workers and parent support advisors.

These courses are facilitated by Satveer Nijjar BSc (Hons) Psychology, a motivated and inspirational speaker.

Topics covered include:

• defining self-harm
• statistics on self-harm
• what leads to self-harm in young people
• what the functions of self-harm are for the young person
• myths and language use in relation to self-harm
• risk in relation to self-harm
• supporting someone who self-harms, including practical strategies

9.00am Registration     9.30am Start of Training

“It is important that the starting point for health and wellbeing education should be a focus on enabling pupils to make well-informed, positive choices for themselves” (Department for Education Statutory Health Education Guidance).

NHS Digital shows an increase in vaping, with 9% of 11-to-15-year-olds currently using e-cigarettes. This introductory session will explore how you can build vaping into the drugs and alcohol curriculum within your setting. In addition, there will be an opportunity to explore strategies to manage a range of influences on drug, alcohol and tobacco use, including peers. There will also be a discussion on how a holistic approach can be used to address incidents of vaping within your setting. 

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Delegates must attend both days in full.

To reserve a place email ghll@Gloucestershire.gov.uk

During this workshop, GHLL lead teachers will be available to talk you through the various GHLL primary resources, all of which have been developed by practising teachers to support your pupils in their physical and emotional development. The Lead Teachers can advise on how you can build the resources into your school’s current PSHE curriculum, and share ways in which they have been implemented in other schools and the outcomes they have provided.

You will have the opportunity to discuss methods to measure the impact of your PSHE teaching, and ways in which the children’s learning and understanding can be recorded and assessed.

Some of the resources explored in this session will include:

• Counting Sleep
• Make Me a Superhero
• Peer Mediation
• Understanding Dementia
• Keeping Myself Safe
• Focused for Learning

The last part of the session allows time for delegates to view other GHLL resources freely available to schools and the chance to share ways in which they can be mapped into your school’s provision.

Delegates will require a separate booking if they wish to also attend the morning Primary Relationships (Sex) and Health Education Curriculum Training.

Led by GHLL primary teachers, this curriculum training session will cover the statutory requirements for all primary schools under the new guidance. Delegates will explore ways in which schools can ensure their R(S)HE curriculum meets the DfE requirements, whilst also being tailored to their setting and meeting the needs of their pupils. Whether a commercial package is used to deliver the R(S)HE curriculum, or freely available resources are used, this session will help to support schools in providing a spiral, responsive, progressive curriculum, bespoke to their setting.

“The school is unafraid to adapt the PSHE curriculum as needed, and address issues as they arise.” OFSTED, 2021, Outstanding PSHE outcome.

This training session will cover:
· Current statutory requirements for R(S)HE, including policies and curriculum content
· Guidance for auditing and reviewing provision in your school
· Suggestions for parent and pupil consultation
· Understanding of the principles of good R(S)HE teaching
· Suggestions for dealing with awkward questions, setting ground rules and managing parental concerns
· Signposting to quality-marked free resources to support your curriculum
The end of the session allows time to explore the FREE GHLL resources, developed to support the delivery of the statutory R(S)HE curriculum.

Delegates are welcome stay for the afternoon GHLL Primary Resources Overview, when the GHLL resources within the R(S)HE planning framework will be explored further. A separate booking is required if you also wish to attend the afternoon session.

A three hour course which will enable participants to gain a wider understanding, for themselves and others, of some issues surrounding mental health and how they might support the young people they work with. This is a rare opportunity for colleagues working with young people to improve their knowledge, understanding and skills at identifying and supporting young people with mental health problems. 

This course is open to all professionals who work with KS2 primary or secondary age young people in Gloucestershire, including teachers, senior leaders, pastoral managers, tutors, learning support workers and parent support advisors.

These courses are facilitated by Satveer Nijjar BSc (Hons) Psychology, a motivated and inspirational speaker.

Topics covered include:

• defining self-harm
• statistics on self-harm
• what leads to self-harm in young people
• what the functions of self-harm are for the young person
• myths and language use in relation to self-harm
• risk in relation to self-harm
• supporting someone who self-harms, including practical strategies

9.00am Registration     9.30am Start of Training

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Delegates must attend both days in full.

To reserve a place email ghll@Gloucestershire.gov.uk

Mental Health e-learning ‘Train the Trainer’ Course

This has been designed in conjunction with CYPS and is an incredibly accessible tool.

Course Aims

To help all primary and secondary school staff to understand the more common mental health problems children and young people may face.

To recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health problems

To guide a child or young person towards the right support

To help children and young people cope and manage their lives.

This course is for:

All primary and secondary school staff wishing to develop their knowledge and skills around Mental Health. It is intended that after receiving training, delegates will then ask questions on how to then deliver the package themselves. All participants will need a laptop or tablet and internet access to complete the session, which lasts 90 minutes.

If you would like the trainer to come in to school to deliver this FREE training, to arrange a date please email us with your name, school name, phone number and possible dates to ghll@Gloucestershire.gov.uk

Cain is 21 years old.  He is affected by cerebral palsy due to complications at birth. Cain cannot walk or talk.  He is confined to a wheelchair and communicates using an electronic device which he controls with his eyes.  He needs support for all his daily needs. He is funny, lively, and intelligent, plays x-box with his feet and loves fast cars, chocolate, and meeting people. 

Cain and his PA, Helen, are offering a free session to all schools.  Their aim is to  increase awareness of living with disabilities and to teach the importance of inclusion, equality and engaging meaningfully with people with disabilities.  The session will give pupils an insight into the challenges Cain faces in his daily life, how he communicates and show how much he has to offer society.  It includes several practical activities. Feedback from schools who have taken part has been very positive:

‘A number of the children mentioned that they now felt they had a better understanding of disability and the challenges that those with disabilities face.’

‘Cain and his whole team were wonderful and really informative, we learned so much and laughed a lot!’  

‘The children absolutely loved the session.  The length was perfect for keeping them engaged and the practical activities were fantastic’.