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Free mental health support available to Parents/Carers and young people

Fri 26 Jan 2024 BV

Please click on links below for further details:

Kooth - a service where children and young people can talk anonymously to trained mental health support.
Chat Health - a confidential text support service for parents, carers, families and young people in Hampshire manned by Southern Health health visitors and school nurses.
Shout - Free, in the moment mental health support text ‘HANTS’ to 85258 to be connected to a trained Shout volunteer who can help with anxiety, stress, loneliness or depression. Available 24/7.

Calendar Sync from school website

Thu 25 Jan 2024 BV

A feature of the school’s website allows you to subscribe to events from the school calendar so that they download into your own personal calendar on your mobile phone, tablet or computer.

All you need to do is visit the calendar on the school website and click the link called ‘Link the school events to your personal calendar’. You can then choose from three options: to add to your default calendar (for example, on an iPhone it will go to the iPhone calendar); to add it to your Google calendar; or input it to your calendar programme of choice.

Things to know:

If the school edits its calendar, the updates will appear automatically in your calendar (the time that this takes to happen will depend on your calendar programme).
You cannot edit the events in the school calendar.
All events will pull through in one colour only, not the colours set by the school.
You can name the calendar and choose how often to receive updates (we recommend you set this to as often as possible).
You can unsubscribe via your own calendar at any time.
If you have any questions or feedback, please let the office know.

Please check out the useful NHS weblink below providing a guide for parents/carers on whether children can go to school or should stay at home when unwell.

Thu 25 Jan 2024 bv

NHS Guide

Please look out for the email sent today offering guidance due to an increase in the number of cases of measles nationally.

Wed 24 Jan 2024 bv

Moments Matter, Attendance Counts.

Thu 11 Jan 2024 BV

Why is high attendance important to my child's education?

As a parent/carer you want the best for your children. Having a good education is an important factor in opening up more opportunities in adult life. Did you know that:

a child who is absent a day of school per week misses an equivalent of two years of their school life
90% of young people with absence rates below 85% fail to achieve five or more good grades of GCSE and around one third achieve no GCSEs at all
poor examination results limit young people’s options and poor attendance suggests to colleges and employers that these students are unreliable
poor school attendance is also closely associated with crime a quarter of school age offenders have truanted repeatedly
at least 1 million children take at least one half day off a year without permission
7.5 million school days are missed each year through unauthorised absence

GCSEs may seem a long way off for you and your child but all absence at any stage leads to gaps in your child’s learning. This in turn can:

mean that they fall behind in work
affect their motivation
affect their enjoyment of learning
lead to poor behaviour
affect their desire to attend school regularly affect their confidence in school
mean they miss out on the social life of school and extra curricular opportunities and experiences
affect their ability to have or keep friendships