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Resources & Useful Links

This page collects in one place resources and links which will be of use to both students and their parents/carers. Please check back regularly for updates.

National Apprenticeship Week, 2023

Useful links for parents/carers

  • Amazing Apprenticeships Parent & Carer Zone
  • Higher & Degree Apprenticeship listings: February 2023
  • ‘Become and Apprentice’ – Gov.uk wesbite

Year 10 Work Experience Parent/Carer Information Evening: 6.12.22

  • The slides from the presentation can be viewed here

Presentations and resources from the Young Minds Anxiety Information Evening: 19.10.22

  • The slides from the presentation can be viewed here.
  • The stress management resources provided can be downloaded here.

Slides from the September 2022 Parent/Carer Information Evenings:

  • Year 7
  • Year 8
  • Year 9
  • Year 10
  • Year 11
  • Year 12
  • Year 13

Year 12 and Beyond; Threshold Exams Information Evening (virtual): 16.3.22

The video presentation from Mrs Tolley (Head of Sixth Form) can be viewed here.

The PowerPoint slides from the presentation can be viewed here.

Resources from the Sixth Form: 10.3.22

The Parents’ Guide to Study & Exam Revision (Sixth Form): 2021-22 can be downloaded here.

A presentation on Student Finance & Managing Your Money (from the University of Sheffield) can be downloaded here.

Staying Safe Online

A guide for parents/carers on supporting children to stay safe online from the Children’s Commissioner can be viewed here.

Parents/Carers talking to their children about future careers

A short film from Talking Futures called Family Conversations:

Slides from the ‘Year 11 and Beyond’ Evening, 12.10.21

You can view the slides from the PowerPoint presentation here.

Direct web links:

  • 16+ Choices guidance
  • Beaumont Careers blog
  • Oaklands College
  • Apprenticeships
  • Morrisby Profiling

DfE resources: Education catch-up for your child

The DfE has launched a brand new site, designed especially for parents, with the support, information and resources they need to help their children enjoy the summer holidays and prepare for the next academic year.

The site features links to programmes, activities, resources and videos to boost children’s learning and wellbeing aimed at parents of 0-19 year olds, with extra information for parents of SEND children.

You can visit the website here.

Online Safety & Social Media Awareness

Slides from the parent virtual information evening (24.3.21), can be viewed here.

Beyond Beaumont Information Evening (virtual): 24.2.21

You can view a video recording of the presentation by Mrs Tolley for Year 12 students and their parents, here.

Mental Health & Well-being Guidance

Hertfordshire NHS has produced updated guidance about how to support children and young people’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, which can be viewed here.

Advice leaflets for parents

Hertfordshire Integrated Services for Learning and the NHS have published a series of guidance leaflets for parents:

  • Wellbeing Support for Parents
  • Top Tips for Parents: Sleep
  • Top Tips for Parents: Anxiety Management
  • Top Tips for Parents: Exam Anxiety

Drugs & Alcohol Awareness Evening: 15.7.19

The presentation from the evening can be downloaded here.

The parents’ information leaflet can be downloaded here.

Student travel to school by Bus

You can download a copy of the Arriva bus company leaflet for parents here.

Useful websites concerning child internet safety

www.ceop.police.uk
www.thinkuknow.co.uk
www.internetmatters.org
www.parentzone.org.uk
www.parentinfo.org
www.saferinternet.org.uk
www.net-aware.org.uk
www.kids-search.com
www.swiggle.org.uk
https://www.childline.org.uk
https://www.iwf.org.uk

There is also a NSPCC helpline: 0808 800 5002

Talking to your Teenager about Sex and Relationships

You can download the slides from the parent information evening on Sex and Relationships, 19.3.19, here.

Understanding and Supporting Young People with Anxiety

You can download the slides from the parent workshop, run by Rachel Robin (Senior Family Support Worker from VISTA, St. Albans) at Beaumont, on Thursday 25th October, here.

You can download the Anxiety Card here.

You can download the NHS apps audit here.

You can download the Sleep & Emotional Health Tips here.

Healthy Young Minds in Herts

This website is designed to give parents and carers information on the help available for children and young people who may be experiencing emotional or mental health difficulties.

If you would like information on how to support and promote your child’s mental well-being, click here.

Alternatively, if you feel that you would like some support with your own mental health, click here.

Young Minds

Click here for a link to the Young Minds helpline and information source for parents.

Mind Ed for Families

MindEd for Families has online advice and information from trusted sources and aims to help parents to understand and identify early issues and best support their children.

Click here to access Mind Ed for Families.

Families Feeling Safe courses

Click here to view courses offered by Families Feeling Safe.

Coping with and Anxiety in Teenagers

You can download a leaflet of tips for parents in handling stress and anxiety in teenagers here.

Emotional Well-Being for Teens

You can download the PowerPoint slides from the Parent Information Evening, 17.5.18, here.

Hertfordshire Families First

You can visit the Local Authority’s Families First portal here.

Bromcom: My Child At School

A parents’ guide to My Child At School can be downloaded here.

Delivering Specialist Provision Locally

DSPL is a Hertfordshire-wide partnership approach where parents, carers, staff in early years settings and schools, further education colleges, local authority officers and representatives from other agencies, work together as part of an Area Group, to ensure that there is a range of provision and support services available in their local community that :

  • Meets the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), aged 0-25, as close to home as possible.
  • Widens choice for children and parers/carers
  • Removes barriers to learning
  • Improves outcomes for wellbeing and attainment
  • Uses resources more effectively

Visit the website here.

The Herts for Learning Parents’ e-safety newsletter Summer 2017 can be downloaded here.

PowerPoint Presentations from the Parent Information Evening  –  23rd June

  • e-Safety

New GCSE grading system (1 – 9, from Summer 2016) explained in a video from the examination board AQA  click here

YC Hertfordshire (formerly known as Youth Connexions)

  • The YC Hertfordshire website (formerly known as Channel Mogo) can be found here.
  • ‘Can You Trust?’ –  Guidance for young people on information provided by social media and other sources
  • ‘Finding Key Information’ –  Sources of impartial careers advice
  • ‘I Would Like to Talk About…’ –  Information about issues you can talk about, either with our Youth Connexions PA in school or at the Catherine St centre

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Beaumont News

  • Lego League STEM successJanuary 29, 2023 - 11:03 am
  • Inter-House Charity Bake-Off 2022October 24, 2022 - 12:03 pm
  • Outstanding GCSE ResultsAugust 25, 2022 - 10:35 am
  • Record-breaking success at ‘A’ levelAugust 18, 2022 - 11:28 am

Forthcoming Events

7th & 8th February
Dance Show (Yr7-13)

21st March
Spring Concert

 

 

Useful Links

  • Ofsted Parent View
  • Local Authority: Schools & Education

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