Dear Parents and Carers
Since students returned to us after the summer break we have been delighted to see the passion and enthusiasm for learning that the majority of our amazing young people have exhibited. Our new year 7 students have now settled and are starting to show us the potential that they have to achieve ‘to greater heights’ and our College Values or Ambition, Endeavour and Respect are now truly embedded within the College community. It is such a pleasure to work with these incredible students.
Respect is one of our core College values and we expect all or our students to respect themselves, others and the environment around them. We want our students to feel safe and secure when in College and we offer a wide range of support and enrichment activities to help them grow into polite, confident and resilient young adults. We are extremely lucky to have a wonderful team of staff at Sir John Hunt who are there to support your children achieve academically and overcome their worries and concerns in College.
We recognise that at times students require additional support and intervention from adults to help them overcome their worries and concerns. It is for this reason that we are re-launching our Tell Us campaign, reminding students that if there is something that is worrying them, or someone who is causing them anguish then they should Tell Us. Students are reminded that they should tell an adult in school if something is concerning them: normally this would be their pastoral leader, inclusion lead or tutor but any member of staff can support.
On the College Website we also have a ‘Tell Us’ button on the student safeguarding page that students can use to tell us things that may be worrying them outside of the school day. On this page there are also links to other support agencies. Our Mental Health and Wellbeing page also has lots of links and strategies to support our students’ mental health, with many of the services having professionals on call to help your child. Please take this opportunity to talk to your child about any peer related concerns that they may have and help them to explore these pages and the associated links.
Over the coming weeks we hope to be working with other organisations to help raise awareness of bullying across the city, and support our students to endeavour to do the right thing if they become aware that someone else is the victim of any form of abuse.
Please do explore our College Website as it contains a plethora of useful information to help support your child during their time at Sir John Hunt.
With my very best wishes,
Mr Marner |
