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We are in the process of making some changes to this website and would like your views. Please see the main notices for a questionnaire which we would like you to return as soon as possible.
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Addressing Binge Drinking - Lauren Performance Supports City Secondary Schools
Lauren is a real challenge (in the best way) to teenagers - it is an engaging, interactive, fun and dramatic production. Lauren powerfully delivers key messages around alcohol misuse and antisocial behaviour as well as providing a forum to challenge young peoples attitudes and behaviour - I recommend it to you
Recent surveys conducted with staff and pupils as part of our needs assessment process have highlighted that schools in the City have identified alcohol misuse and parental alcohol use as a key area of concern. The local TellUs survey suggests that by Y10 12% of pupils are already misusing alcohol or binge drinking weekly. We know that alcohol misuse among girls is rising and that over half of young people do not feel safe in their neighbourhoods, partly due to anti-social behaviour and alcohol use.
Following the success last term of the Tangere Art performance and workshop of Lauren we are making more performances available for a limited period during Spring and summer term 09. Last term over half of Nottingham City Secondary Schools ran the programme with their year 9 pupils along with 3 specially designed lessons to prepare the pupils and to follow up the programme.
The cost of the workshop will be covered by the Healthy Schools Programme. In return we ask for a commitment from the school to deliver the workshop as part of a small planned programme of 3 or 4 lessons. We will provide the lesson plans to prepare for and to follow up the performance/workshop. This will ensure that the workshops are most effective and will help you to meet the learning outcomes set out in relation to alcohol education in the national curriculum for PSHE and Wellbeing and Every Child Matters.
Tangere arts will provide you with a package of max 3 performance/workshop sessions. Each workshop can cater for about 30 pupils but if you need more than 3 sessions to cover your Y9 on role we can look at extending this a little. We would like all of the Y9 pupils to have the opportunity to receive the workshop and receive important safeguarding information about alcohol and alcohol services.
Contact Tangere Arts to book 0845 3298013 or email all@avah.freeserve.co.uk
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Healthy Schools has a New Champion!
We are very proud to announce that Councillor Mohammed Ibrahim is the new City of Nottingham "Healthy Schools Champion"! We are looking forward to plenty of new and exciting opportunities to promote the fantastic work that the team and City Schools are doing together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in the City.
We warmly welcome Councillor Ibrahim aboard the Healthy Schools Team and extend our thanks for his support!
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Contact your local Healthy Schools Manager,
Chris Wallbanks
Most schools are not starting from scratch. For most it will be a
question of your local Healthy Schools representative helping you
to assess how your school is doing in meeting the standards, discuss
priorities for your school and help you draw up an action plan. They
can also help you with engaging other staff to get involved and finding
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