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With exam season fast approaching, the following resources may be helpful to families:

4/9/24 – Kooth mental health assembly (all years)
5/9/24 – police assemblies – how to keep yourself safe in the community (all years)
10/10/24 – World Mental Health Day
11-15/11/24 – Anti-Bullying Week
14/11/24 – Y7 Road Safety Talks (SMBC)
15/11/24 – OddBalls Assembly – how to check yourself for prostate cancer (6^th Form only)
4/12/24 – Y7-11 Flu Vaccines
27/11/24 – Peer Mentor Training Day 1, delivered by Shine Youth
15/1/25 – Y11 Progress Review Evening – SOLAR in attendance
4/2/25 – SOLAR mental health awareness assembly for Y11& 6^th form
10-11/2/25 – Y9 Meningitis/ DTP vaccinations
26/2/25 – Y10 Progress Review Evening – SOLAR in attendance
28/2/25 – International Stand Up To Bullying Day
13/3/25 – Peer Mentor Training Day 2 – Refresher Session, delivered by Shine Youth
17/3/25 – Y9 Loudmouth Theatre Session – “Safe and Sound” which is about teenage relationship abuse, consent, power, control and misogyny.
19/3/25 – Y9 Progress Review Evening – SOLAR in attendance
2/4/25 – Y8 Progress Review Evening – SOLAR in attendance
3/4/25 – Y7, Y8 Loudmouth Theatre Session – “Bully 4 U” for KS3 which is about resilience, online safety, homophobic, sexual and sexist bullying and misogyny.
3/4/25 – Y10 Loudmouth Theatre Session – “Calling It Out” for KS4 which is about harmful sexual behaviours, sexual harassment, sexual assault, pornography, consent and misogyny.
9-10/4/25 – Y8 HPV Vaccines
5/3/26 – Safeguarding Update Letter March 2026

These are some online tools you can use to report things online and control a phone:

Report remove tool. You can use this to make a report of images online. They will then help with getting the image removed – https://www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/bullying-abuse-safety/online-mobile-safety/report-remove/
Google Family Link – Allows you to lock the phone so it cannot be used and enable/ disable apps.
MM Guardian – Alerts you to if any searches or conversations being had are inappropriate. For an example, you will get alerts to say if something has been searched or sent which comes under the categories of Drugs, Pornography, Weapons, Adult sites, Bullying, etc.
Life 360 – This is an app which tracks the phone and will tell you a child’s location.

November 2025: Operation Encompass – Parent Letter

May 2025: Solihull Secondary School Nursing Newsletter – Spring 2025

March 2025: Adolescence letter to parents

November 2024: Fortnite parental controls and privacy settings | Internet Matters

September 2024: Secondary Newsletter

December 2023: Keeping children safe online Christmas

12^th-13^th September 2023: Police attend TGAK to give assemblies on keeping safe in the local area and knife crime

October: Black History Month

November 13^th-17^th: Anti-bullying Week and Solar assemblies on mental health/ bullying

28^th November: Dropdown Day 1 with a focus on Bullying Vs Banter

October 2023: WhatsApp Safety Guide

September 2023: YouTube Parental Restrictions

September 2023: Parent Guide to Snapchat’s AI Chatbot

September 2023: Samsung Kids is a parental feature which you can set up on your child’s device which can be used to apply restrictions such as app access, downloading, screen time, privacy and more. It’s really easy to set up and use and will help you to manage your child’s online activity. To learn more, including a setup guide, see here: https://www.internetmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/parent-controls-docs/parental-control-samsung-kids-parental-controls.pdf

September 2023: The Internet Watch Foundation is reporting a worrying increase in criminal acts of sextortion with older teen boys (14-17) most at risk. We know that many students won’t report for a variety of different reasons, this is why knowledge of the Report Remove tool is increasingly important. Advice and guidance from the IWF for parents of children who are being sexually extorted can be found here: https://www.iwf.org.uk/resources/sextortion/parents-and-carers/

May 2023: What do I need to know about ChatGPT? A guide for parents and carers

May 2023: What is Omegle? What parents need to know

March 2023: A Parent & Guardian’s Guide to Tik Tok

November 2022: Grandparents guide to online safety

November 2022: BeReal – a guide to the new social media app

October 2022: Parents Against Child Exploitation (PACE) free online learning courses for parents, carers and professional – https://paceuk.info/training/online-learning/

October 2022: For LGBTQ+ children and young people, connecting and sharing online can be a vital way to interact with peers, educate themselves, and find solutions to issues that friends or family may not understand. However, there are also areas of risk for young people within the LGBTQ+ community when interacting online. https://www.internetmatters.org/inclusive-digital-safety/advice-for-parents-and-carers/supporting-lgbtq-children-and-young-people/connecting-and-sharing-online/

September 2022: Keeping your child safe in sport – free e-learning course | CPSU