Queen Elizabeth High School

“We value relationships between staff, parents and students. The Parent Partnership Group (PPG) is an informal forum for parents and senior staff to share their views on a wide range of issues linked to raising achievement and students’ well-being within the school. We work together to assist the school in reviewing and improving practices and processes to enhance a positive and productive school experience. Meetings are held at the school, in the evening, twice a term.”

Our achievements to date include: -

• Input into content and design of QEHS introductory booklet for Year 9
• Introduction of more appropriate Year 9 timing of parents’ evening (i.e. first term) so can discuss possible GCSE options with children
• Communication framework with many facets providing valuable ideas for SLT and adopted by Governors, including more use of parentmail, better communication of events, e-portal information to access on-line
• Introduction of aspects which contribute to comfort at school and safety e.g. extra water fountain, supervised football area, double yellow lines extended outside
• Collaboration of QEHS website design with SLT leading to massive expansion of information such as exam timetable on-line, comprehensive calendar, subject curriculum termly review
• Input into e-safety with further work with SLT to develop in future
• Input into Health Education and Sex Education curriculum
• Input into Behaviour Policy
• Snow policy - work to be set for students
• Year timetables and coursework information on websites

Meeting for this year will take place on:

• 10 November 2011
• 18 January 2012
• 22 March 2012
• 16 May 2012
• 5 July 2012
• 26 September 2012

All meetings will start at 7.00pm. The meetings scheduled for 10 November, 22 March and 16 May will take place in A16; all other meetings will be held in the Conference Centre.

If you are interested in joining the group please contact Susanna Dawson - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If you suspect it, report it!

We all use technology in our everyday lives and it is vital that we are able to use it safely. In the event that we feel unsafe about something, we need to know what to do. To refresh yourself, or to learn more about internet safety, use the links below.

CEOP

CEOP and Facebook have developed a new free application or 'app' that will make young people safer within Facebook. 'ClickCEOP' is a new 'app' which links the young user and parent directly from their Facebook home page to help, advice and reporting facilities of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre.

Want to know more?

Parents: http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
Young People: http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
Teachers: http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/teachers/
CEOP: http://www.ceop.gov.uk

Documents

• Responsible Internet Use - Staff
• Responsible Internet Use - Students

Following the success of our recent Understanding Teenagers Parent Group The following book was read and recommended by a parent as providing useful and insightful reading.

Teenagers! What Every Parent Has to Know by Rob Parsons.
"In the battlefield that is the parenthood of teenagers, this book is not just wonderfully enlightening, but strangely comforting."
- Prima Magazine

Other books published by this author and Parenting Speaker are:

The Sixty Minute Family, elegantly and compellingly written, with both sensitivity and humour, it offers an insight into the everyday challenges experienced by real-life families and how they can be overcome.
- Ned Temko, The Observer

The Sixty Minute Father. No-one was ever heard to say on their death bed, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office". And yet so often that's how we live. This practical, down-to-earth book helps fathers to see how they can seize the day, laugh more with their children, and give love without strings.
- Rob Parsons, Care for a Family

The Sixty Minute Mother. This little book is dedicated to mothers everywhere, and just like our experience of motherhood, it contains a mixture of wisdom and humour. Where the quotes are from notables, I've attributed them, but many are from ordinary mums like you and me.
- Dianne Parsons, Care for a Family.

Every Step Counts: Building a Healthy Stepfamily. Becoming a step-parent is not easy. Whether we have experience of raising a family or not, forming a new family raises many questions for everyone involved. In this practical and easy to read book, Christine and Tony Tufnell give valuable advice for anyone living, or planning to live, in a stepfamily.
- Care for a family

The above books can be ordered from websites like Amazon or from the national charity "Care for a family" at www.careforthefamily.org.uk.

The Trust for the Study of Adolescence - Young People in Focus.org.uk The website also has many books and guides to support families looking at emotional health and well being, learning and education and parenting and family life - www.youngpeopleinfocus.org.uk.

The ParenTalk Guide to the Teenage Years by Steve Chalke. Packed with practical down to earth information and advice on how to make the most of the all important stages of your child as they grow up.
- Young People in Focus

How to Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazllish. This book covers topics ranging from curfews and cliques to sex and drugs. The authors give parents and teens practical tools.
- Young people in focus.

The Trust for the Study of Adolescence - Young People in Focus.org.uk The website also has many books and guides to support families looking at emotional health and well being, learning and education and parenting and family life - www.youngpeopleinfocus.org.uk.