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Safeguarding Statement
At Streetly Academy we are committed to safeguarding children and young people and promoting positive well being. This newsletter helps staff, parents and students be aware of safeguarding and mental well being issues inside and outside of school. The links below are interactive and will refer you to useful resources if you have any concerns regarding your child.
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For Parents - TikTok Family Safety Toolkit
The DQ Institute is an American-based charity and, along with TikTok, have created a comprehensive TikTok Family Safety Toolkit which I'm sure many of you would find really helpful. It's quite a large guide (26 pages) and throughout there are links to digital citizenship tips and more in-depth subjects.
You can download the guide (PDF) HERE
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Omegle
Omegle is an app and a website and last week there was a lot of reporting in regards to a surge in usage, particularly teens and younger children. The BBC have reported that they carried out an investigation and found a significant amount of disturbing content.
Omegle has been around for many years, it isn't new and there have always been significant concerns. If you don't know what it is, essentially it's a place which openly advertises 'come in and talk to a stranger'. You simply click a button and you are randomly placed in a video chat room with a completely random person. There's no age verification, no warnings and it's doubtful whether there is any meaningful moderation.
Why has it increased in popularity? Surprise surprise, because certain high-profile influencers have been talking about it on TikTok. According to the news report, videos tagged with Omegle have been viewed on TikTok more than 9.4 billion times.
I do not recommend you engage son/daughter with this but simply keep an eye on your child's activity to ensure they are not on this site
You can view the BBC news article HERE
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Covid, anxiety and stress resources
Dr Karen Treisman, MBE, is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who works across the National Health System and children’s services. She has extensive experience in the areas of trauma, parenting, adversity (ACE’s) and attachment.
Dr Treisman uses a range of therapeutic approaches with families, systems, and children in or on the edge of care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people, and adopted children. She is the author of eleven books, including the bestselling book, "The therapeutic treasure box", and four sets of therapeutic card decks.
Her website features a wide-range of resources and the section on covid, anxiety and stress is particularly valuable and can be found here: http://www.safehandsthinkingminds.co.uk/covid-anxiety-stress-resources-links/
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Mindfulness Monday
Mrs Wiley will be providing a video each Monday with mindfulness and well being techniques for the week ahead. These will also be saved on our new Well Being Portal.
Headspace Wednesday
This session will be aimed at providing startegies to support good head space at this challenging time. These will also be saved on our new Well Being Portal.
Digisafe Worksheets
With the majority of children and young people at home it's important to keep the online safety conversation going. To help parents with this LGfL are continuing to put together worksheets that parents can use with their children.
A link to this is also in the lockdown support section of our Well Being portal.
Well Being portal
On the student platform (rmunify) there is a link which will take you to the Well Being portal.
Within this area you will find support around Lockdown Advice, Emotional Well Being, Organisation, Self Esteem and many more.
https://sites.google.com/thestreetlyacademy.co.uk/ssp
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