PSHE Professional Community | Crossphase

Session Aims

• To establish a supportive network where schools can share ideas, effective practice and discuss key issues related to PSHE.
• To explore practical solutions to common challenges, supported by expert guidance from experienced PSHE lead professionals.

Each meeting will provide opportunities to:

• Receive updates and developments in the field of PSHE
• Share and learn from examples of good practice
• Network with colleagues from other schools across the region

Agenda

• Molly Forbes, Founder & Executive Director, The Body Happy Organisation™ CIC - Discover how The Body Happy Organisation™ supports schools in promoting positive body image. Molly will provide an overview of their work and share details of the fully funded sessions available to help pupils build body confidence and develop a healthy relationship with their bodies.

Professional Community Lead

Lorien Joyce, Professional Community Lead and Head of PSHE at Kingsbridge Community College, has been teaching PSHE since the very beginning of her career 20 years ago alongside RE, Philosophy and Politics. She is also the school Gender equality IOP champion and shares responsibility for KCC working towards becoming a Gold Award UNICEF Rights Respecting School.

Karen O'Toole is an Advanced Practitioner at Blackawton Primary School and has been teaching PSHE and French for five years. Over the last three years, alongside working as an HLTA, she has studied Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing, graduating in September 2023 with a First Class Honours Degree from the University of Worcester. She is also the school's Mental Health First Aider for staff and Mental Health Champion for all.

Target audience

All members of staff from all school phases.

Costs

SWIFT Members: no charge

Other colleagues: £25

Please note: Payment is by INVOICE ONLY. Please select invoice as the payment method at check out.

You will receive a confirmation of booking from Eventbrite. All further correspondence will come from Robin.Scott@sw-ift.org.uk; please ensure you check your junk mail box and approve the email to ensure you receive important event details.

If you are unable to attend on the day, or are sending someone else in your place, please let us know. Please be aware that failure to cancel your space can incur your school a cost. Full Terms and Conditions are available HERE.

SWIFT Partner providing course (including invoicing) is Exeter Consortium Schools’ Alliance (invoiced by Exeter Consortium)

Non-chargeable Courses (Sessions that are part of the ‘no additional charge’ elements of the SWIFT membership)

• If the place you are cancelling is for a ‘no additional charge’ event under the SWIFT Offer to Schools, you may withdraw, without penalty, provided a minimum notice of 24 hours before the start time of the event is given.
• If less than 24 hours’ notice is given, for each date of a course for which there is no additional charge, then the following charges will apply per applicant: £25.00

Should a training course recruit insufficient numbers to make it viable, we reserve the right to cancel the course, without penalty, giving a minimum notice of 24 hours.