This year, Mr Jarvis and Mrs Hodkinson have been working on a new and exciting launch of the AntiBullying programme Equally-Safe. It is a programme funded by the Department for Education that is run by Equaliteach and means we are working alongside around 250 schools across the UK to embed best practice when it comes to preventing and tackling identity-based bullying at Cherwell. We asked all parents, students and staff to complete a questionnaire back in November, and have been working with the brilliant staff at Equaliteach to look at our policies and practices to work out long term differences that we can make to stamp out identity-based bullying. In January, we trained up fifty students for a whole school day to be 'Ambassadors for Change' and they were fantastic! 10 students from each year, across Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12, came together on South Site to consider what we do now and how things could be changed for the better. The students were trained by Equally Safe facilitators to learn what bullying is, how to identify it and prevent it from a whole school perspective. Our students had some brilliant feedback about the school and ideas to make it better. Mr Jarvis and Mrs Hodkinson are continuing to work on whole school approaches and will be helping to make more of this training, both for students and staff, to ensure that we support the reporting, handling and education around identity-based bullying to prevent it altogether. Mrs Hodkinson, Head of Year 8
Our budding astronomers made observations of the moon through a telescope, saw the stars appear in the night sky, and used the patterns they recognised to find north. We put into practice the theory we've learned in GCSE astronomy, and had a lot of fun. By Mr Lorimer
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