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Mental Health and Wellbeing

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Hot Topic: brand new videos for families, parents and carers on the theme of mental health and wellbeing. Watch and discover the information and support we are sharing with our students here at Belmont Community School. The very first episode is available to view now, via the parents tab, mental health and wellbeing, with more to follow over the coming weeks.

Genre of the Month

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During the month of March Year 8 students will be sampling the delights of Sci-fi to help us to explore new realms of fiction. Which is your favourite genre?

A Guide to Coping with Exam Pressures.

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Here at Belmont Community School we understand the importance of Mental Health and Wellbeing. We are currently focusing on dealing with stress and anxiety with all our students and are also working to produce some mini podcasts for parents too. For those students preparing for exams, here is a link to a document designed to set your mind at rest and offering some useful tips: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coping-with-exam-pressure-a-guide-for-students/coping-with-exam-pressure-a-guide-for-students 

Ukraine Support

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We are holding a wear blue and yellow day on Friday 11th March, all donations will go to Save the Children to help support Ukrainian refugees.

Getting Back Into Employment

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The Foundation of Light are working alongside Livin Housing association to help those who reside in the Durham area, who are currently out of education, training and employment or looking for new opportunities to bring a new one to one scheme.
We have a work coach Sue Kane who will now be located across the Durham area for all employability needs, to give advice, update a CV , help get back into employment through a mentoring programme and practical sessions. Give tips on job searching techniques, give a variety of opportunities that we have through our partners and help guide through the steps to gain better skills and better chances.
Or It may be just to simply have a chat – Call in and speak to Sue in one of our below locations, We are here for anything that can ease a potentially tough time of being unemployed and overcome the barriers. This is for any age group from school leavers to retirement age, we are here for you and can help. It could be that you work with someone, a client, parent, carer, or participant that has been made redundant, out of work for a variety of reasons or are wanting to upskill, their hours may not be right for them, or they may be just unhappy in what they are doing.
Drop in sessions are also available in the following locations.

Tuesday 12pm -2pm – Foundations Building , Shildon DL4 1DX
Wednesday 12pm-2pm – Newton Aycliffe Youth and Community Centre, DL5 4HT
Thursdays 12pm – 2pm Trimdon Village Hall TS29 6JX

Fridays 10 am – 12pm St Pauls Community Centre DL16 7SG

We also have a variety of courses accessible through one of our many hubs located in the Northeast and online which could also help as well as the one 2 one programme.
To find out more and to help someone take a next step please send referral details to myself Charlotte.hunter@foundationoflight.co.uk or susan.kane@foundationoflight.<wbr />co.uk

Wellbeing Survey

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We have recently conducted our first major wellbeing survey with both students and staff here at Belmont Community School. The results have been collated and shared with staff and students to help us better understand how we are feeling and how we can help to address some key features of our mental health. These include our perceptions of self esteem and our emotional resilience. As well as opening the door for discussions and encouraging us all to talk about our wellbeing, we will be running a series of informative slides during tutor time to help to address specific areas such as anxiety, stress and negative thinking. The results should help us all to understand and deal more effectively with our own wellbeing. For more information please contact R. Duarte via the school.

Online Careers Summit

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On Saturday 6th November 2021, @gtscholars will be hosting their FREE Online Careers Summit for pupils in Years 8 to 13.

Join the live online masterclasses and learn from professionals from a range of universities and corporate organisations such as PWC, University of Oxford, BT, JP Morgan, EY, BRIT insurance and Blackrock Bank. Pupils & Parents can sign up here: https://careersummit.gtscholars.org