Resources & Useful Links
This page collects in one place resources and links which will be of use to both students and their parents. Please check back regularly for updates.
Guidance on UCAS Personal Statements
Click here to download the slides from the PowerPoint presentation given by Mr de Kort, 2.7.18.
Options post-18
Click here to download the slides from the PowerPoint presentation given by Alison Curnow (of YC Hertfordshire), 2.7.18.
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.
Healthy Young Minds in Herts for Parents
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.
Click here to access Health Young Minds in Herts
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.
Resources from the university information evening: 1.3.18
You can download the slides from the PowerPoint here.
You can download the information on financing a degree education here.
You can download the list of useful websites here.
Bromcom: My Child At School
A parents’ guide to My Child At School can be downloaded here.
Slides from the Year 11 and Beyond Evening: 12.10.17
You can download the (UPDATED) general presentation slides here.
Your can download the Oaklands College presentation slides here.
You can download the Apprenticeship presentation slides here.
Slides from the Year 9 Parent Information Evening: 11.9.17
You can download a copy of the presentation slides here.
Slides from the Year 12 Parent Information Evening: 14.9.17
You can download a copy of the presentation slides here.
Slides from the Year 8 Parent Information Evening: 13.9.17
You can download a copy of the presentation slides here.
Slides from the Year 10 Parent Information Evening: 13.9.17
You can download a copy of the presentation slides 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
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
