Free hat-making workshops to support and raise awareness for Brain Tumour Research

Across the last two weeks, we have held free hat-making workshops for Year 7 and 8 students in preparation for Wear a Hat Day for Brain Tumour Research, which is taking place on Thursday, 28th March 2024.

The students involved have been so creative in transforming their white blank canvas baseball hats with different designs and motifs using paints, fabric pens, stickers, and even diamante gems!

These workshops have been wonderful, and the students have really enjoyed this project.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone wearing their hats on Thursday.

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Bring Your Family to University Days are free one-day events on UCL's central London campus for students from Year 5 to Year 11, and their families.

About the events

Bring Your Family to University Days are a series of free one-day events aimed at providing information, advice and guidance about university to young people and their parents and carers through fun and interactive sessions on UCL's central London campus. 

These events will include activities such as subject taster lectures, panels, support sessions for parents/carers, campus tours and the opportunity to talk to current university students. A FREE packed lunch will be provided.

When and where will the events take place?

We’re offering primary and secondary school students the opportunity to visit the UCL campus with their families during spring and summer 2024. The dates and relevant school groups for Bring your Family to University days can be found below:

• Saturday 27 April: Primary school (Year 5-6) 
• Saturday 15 June: Primary school (Year 5-6) 
• Saturday 11 May: Secondary school (Year 7-11) 
• Saturday 6 July: Secondary school (Year 7-11)

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Dear parent/carer,

March is Brain Tumour Awareness month and Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys will be supporting the charity Brain Tumour Research by wearing a hat to school on Thursday 28^th March 2024. 

Staff and students can wear a hat for the day, silly, fun, homemade, plain, colourful, small, large, themed but no offensive slogans!

We are asking staff for a suggested donation of £1, students can donate if they wish to. All donations are to be sent into Reception.

There are currently two competitions running with a free hat workshop taking place Thursday 21^st March 3-4pm sign up with Mrs Hawgood at Reception as there are limited spaces available. Students will be able to create their design on a white baseball hat which they can wear on the 28^th – Wear a hat day if they wish to.

The second competition is a colouring competition, you can collect an entry form from reception – prizes to be won!

Brain Tumour research receives just 1% of the national spend on cancer for research into brain tumours.

I hope that with your help and support we can raise some money towards this important research. Last year we raised £300, can we beat that total this year?

Thanks as always for your support.

Last week, our Year 10 Sport Studies students engaged in kayaking sessions as part of their assessments. The students embraced the activity effortlessly, and the outings were highly successful. Well done to the Sport Studies students!

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Parents & Carers: Knife Crime Awareness workshops

Knife Crime Awareness

Please see the below opportunity to sign up to a training course on preventing knife crime with the Ben Kinsella Trust

Parenting children and young adults is hard, sometimes it can be scary and overwhelming with news stories and social media influencing how safe we feel our children are and the risks they may face in today’s climate.

Join our FREE workshops virtually to learn more about topics such as the influence of social media, the signs and stages of exploitation, and how we can prevent young people being affected by knife crime as parents, carers and as a community.

During the workshop you will develop understanding around the following topics:

• Young people's brain development, behaviour and responses to stress
• The importance of healthy, safe attachment for young people
• The stages, signs and risk factors of exploitation
• Gangs - what they are, how they operate, and why?
• External influences - language, social media, gang-related music
• Building resilience within the family and community
• Further support available for families

The workshops are hosted by The Ben Kinsella Trust

Upcoming Sessions:

Date: Monday 25th March
Location: Online via Zoom
Time: 10am - 11:30am

Date: Wednesday 27th March
Location: Online via Zoom
Time: 7pm - 8:30pm

Sign up here: Parents & Carers Workshops - The Ben Kinsella Trust