Wednesday 5th December 2018 Calendar Thursday 6th December Berlin Exchange (Dec 6th – Dec 16th) Friday 7th December Year 11 Mock Results Monday 10th December Year 11 Parents Evening (16:30-20:00) Wednesday 12th December Yr9 Imperial War Museum Sixth Form Art Trip to Europe (TBC) (13th – 14th Dec) Sunday 16th December Berlin Exchange Returns Monday 17th December HoH/Tutors Meeting (15:30-16:30) Tuesday 18th December U6th Parents Evening (16:30-20:00) Thursday 20th December Christmas Lunch & Charity Day Carol Service at Bath Abbey (19:00-21:00) Friday 21st December End of Christmas Term Dear Parents/Carers, Over the next week I will be leading assemblies for all year groups on the subject of peer-on-peer abuse. This is defined in the DfE’s 'Keeping Children Safe in Education 2018', the document to which all schools will refer and educate pupils in this maer, as follows: Abuse which is most likely to include, but may not be lim- ited to bullying (including cyberbullying); physical abuse such as hiing, kicking, shaking, biting, hair pulling, or oth- erwise causing physical harm; sexual violence and sexual harassment; sexting (also known as youth produced sexual imagery); and initiation/hazing type violence and rituals. As a school which prides itself on its core values, we wish to prevent all forms of abuse as part of demonstrating compas- sion and respect to one another. In the assemblies, I will be explaining to pupils and students the consequences of these behaviours and from whom they can seek help should they arise. In particular, I will be stressing the impact of verbal abuse, which research has demonstrated can have deep, long- lasting effects (in contrast to a “sticks and stones…” ai- tude), the negative impact that bullying has on both parties and the particular implications of equalities-based bullying. I will also be encouraging pupils and students to report any peer-on-peer abuse that they experience or witness, and I would urge you to do the same by contacting your son’s Head of House, or myself in the Sixth Form. The school’s policy on peer-on-peer abuse can be found in our safeguarding policy, available on the school website, and I would also invite you to contact me should you have any concerns about this maer. Finally, may I take this opportunity to thank you for your partnership in preventing this type of behaviour through conversations with your son/daughter. To coin the NSPCC phrase, "Peer-on-peer abuse must stop. FULL STOP”. Mr J.Oldham, Deputy Headmaster Designated Safeguarding Lead
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Wednesday 5th December 2018
Calendar
Thursday 6th December
Berlin Exchange (Dec 6th – Dec 16th)
Friday 7th December
Year 11 Mock Results
Monday 10th December
Year 11 Parents Evening (16:30-20:00)
Wednesday 12th December
Yr9 Imperial War Museum
Sixth Form Art Trip to Europe (TBC) (13th – 14th Dec)
Sunday 16th December
Berlin Exchange Returns
Monday 17th December
HoH/Tutors Meeting (15:30-16:30)
Tuesday 18th December
U6th Parents Evening (16:30-20:00)
Thursday 20th December
Christmas Lunch & Charity Day
Carol Service at Bath Abbey (19:00-21:00)
Friday 21st December
End of Christmas Term
Dear Parents/Carers,
Over the next week I will be leading assemblies for all year
groups on the subject of peer-on-peer abuse. This is defined
in the DfE’s 'Keeping Children Safe in Education 2018', the
document to which all schools will refer and educate pupils
in this matter, as follows:
Abuse which is most likely to include, but may not be lim-
ited to bullying (including cyberbullying); physical abuse
such as hitting, kicking, shaking, biting, hair pulling, or oth-
erwise causing physical harm; sexual violence and sexual
harassment; sexting (also known as youth produced sexual
imagery); and initiation/hazing type violence and rituals.
As a school which prides itself on its core values, we wish to
prevent all forms of abuse as part of demonstrating compas-
sion and respect to one another. In the assemblies, I will be
explaining to pupils and students the consequences of these
behaviours and from whom they can seek help should they
arise.
In particular, I will be stressing the impact of verbal abuse,
which research has demonstrated can have deep, long-
lasting effects (in contrast to a “sticks and stones…” atti-
tude), the negative impact that bullying has on both parties
and the particular implications of equalities-based bullying.
I will also be encouraging pupils and students to report any
peer-on-peer abuse that they experience or witness, and I
would urge you to do the same by contacting your son’s
Head of House, or myself in the Sixth Form.
The school’s policy on peer-on-peer abuse can be found in
our safeguarding policy, available on the school website,
and I would also invite you to contact me should you have
any concerns about this matter.
Finally, may I take this opportunity to thank you for your
partnership in preventing this type of behaviour through
conversations with your son/daughter. To coin the NSPCC
phrase, "Peer-on-peer abuse must stop. FULL STOP”.
Mr J.Oldham,
Deputy Headmaster
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Theme of the Week
This week’s theme of the week is Iceland's banned Christ-
mas advert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdpspllWI2o
Originally produced by Greenpeace to highlight the glob-
al impact of palm oil production, and show that simple
products such as our shampoo, crisps & chocolate which
contain palm oil are fuelling tropical countries to grow as
much palm oil as possible (as it's an easy to grow high
yield crop)
This has been linked to unscrupulous developers remov-
ing large swathes of natural rainforest to plant palm oil
trees which is destroying the natural habitat for animals
such as the Orangutans and Sumatran Tigers. Over
100,000 Orangutans have been killed in the quest for palm