Helping Young People Navigate the 21st Century
Child and adolescent mental health is very much in the parenting and educational spotlight. The New Beacon believe this is something they are very aware of and as such offer strong pastoral care and attention to their pupils’ wellbeing – whatever their age.
The New Beacon are excited to announce that they will be holding a conference at their school on 23 & 24 April with a target audience of parents and education professionals. Their aim; to delve deeper into this very important topic. Details of the conference are outlined below:
Thursday 23 April
‘Drawing & Talking’ workshop which is for professionals working in education. Please click on the link to learn more about the content of this workshop. Drawing And Talking Workshop
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an accredited course focusing on awareness and on ways to support young people with mental health difficulties.
An evening talk by Dick Moore, a global speaker on young people’s mental health and well-being (in conjunction with the Charlie Waller Memorial trust). Please click here to watch Dick’s powerful TedX talk.
Friday 24 April
Day conference which will run from 9.00am until 4.30pm featuring a range of international respected speakers and professionals.
Our keynote speaker is Dr. Pooky Knightsmith, a renowned speaker on child and adolescent mental health.
Pooky is an internationally respected face of child and adolescent mental health, Pooky works tirelessly to ‘be the change she wants to see’. A prolific keynote speaker, lecturer, trainer and author, she develops and shares practical, evidence-informed approaches to promoting mental health – arming health, social care and education staff with the skills, information and knowledge they need to support the children in their care; whilst also working hard to drive collaboration and change at a national and international level amongst politicians and charity, business and service leads.
Pooky has a PhD in child mental health from the Institute of Psychiatry, is the author of six books and is the current vice chair of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition. She’s also a mum of two who works hard every day to win her own battles against PTSD, anorexia, self-harm and depression. Ted X talk with Pooky.
Richard Burnett is the founder of the Mindfulness in Schools Project. He has taught mindfulness to well over a thousand adolescents in the past 15 years – in classrooms, science labs, libraries, theatres, car parks and fields, and at virtually every time of day. He co-wrote the highly-acclaimed 10 week mindfulness course, .b (pronounced dot-b) designed to engage adolescents in the classroom. Richard is a teacher at Tonbridge School, the first school in the UK to put mindfulness on the curriculum, an event covered by press, TV and radio in early 2010. Richard’s TEDx talk helped define the landscape of mindfulness in education and he was an expert witness at the All Party Parliamentary Group that led to Mindful Nation UK
Please click the links below to book your places.
Dick Moore Talk 23 April 7.30-9.30pm
Drawing and Talking Workshop 23 April 9am-3pm
Mental Health First Aid Workshop 23 April – 9am-4pm
Helping Young People Navigate the 21st Century Conference 24 April – 9am-4.30pm
For further enquiries please contact Clare Sender 01732 779024 or email csr@newbeacon.org.uk. www.newbeacon.org.uk
The New Beacon is a Prep School for boys aged 4-13 in Sevenoaks Kent with a coeducational nursery for rising 3 year olds.
Author: Helen Loder
Co-Director of Sevenoaks Mums