Parent Speakers Programme Autumn Term 2018
Photo: Alastair Humphreys Credit: Martin Hartley
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Karl Hopwood 20 September 7pm – 8.30pm, Holst Hall
Alastair Humphreys
Karl is an independent esafety expert. He is a member of UKCCIS (UK Council for Child Internet Safety) and sits on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre and the education advisory board for CEOP. Karl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre), BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency), the European Commission and several Local Authorities within the UK. As an ex primary headteacher, he continues to work closely with children, young people, parents and teachers to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy.
Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer, Author and Blogger. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents.
Karl has been employed for the last 5 years as an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU safer internet programme where he is responsible for the coordination of safer internet helplines across the EU. He has also worked extensively with the BSA and IAPS to promote esafety in their schools and is a trustee of the Marie Collins Foundation. This talk will provide useful advice for all parents, but is aimed particularly at Year 7 parents.
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4 October 2018, Venue TBA
More recently Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through Spain and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He has trekked 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and 120 miles round the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures. He was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the year for 2012.
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Charlotte Kathe 10 October 7pm-8.30pm, Holst Hall
Laura Bates 17 October 4-5pm, Venue TBA
“A boy’s problem? – Safeguarding our girls from extremism” The rise of the far-right and the continued global reach of groups like Daesh/ ISIS as well as a new wave of terrorist attacks in 2016/17 in the UK has once again put extremism on the forefront of our minds. While we tend to read less about young women and girls as prominent actors in extremist groups and attacks, they still play an increasingly vital role in these movements. Radicalisation is a complex social process that is indiscriminate of gender, age, social or economic backgrounds, ethnicity, race or religion. While schools, alongside other public institutions, have a legal obligation to safeguarding young people from being drawn into extremism and build resilience, the responsibility is upon all of us as a society and parents play a particularly important role. To live up to this responsibility, we need to get a better understanding of the radicalisation process, what can make young girls and women vulnerable to extremism and how extremist groups use targeted recruitment tactics to make their groups appealing to young girls. Charlotte Kathe is the Prevent Education Office at Southwark Council. She has an MA in Terrorism, Security and Society from King’s College London. She previously worked for the global counter-extremism think tank ISD where she worked on projects with companies like Facebook and led an international policy network on countering radicalisation and polarisation. Charlotte is an excellent speaker and parents will, we are sure, find her insight very interesting.
If you would like to attend any of the featured events the parent spaeakers programme, please register for FREE tickets online, via the JAGS Website www.jags.org.uk/for-parents
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Laura Bates is the founder of the award -winning Everyday Sexism Project which launched in 2012, this platform now has over 100,000 testimonies on experiences of gender equality in the society. With the increased awareness, her project has been featured in mainstream media from the likes of New York Times to Times of India and has now expanded to over 20 countries worldwide. Laura’s first book, Everyday Sexism was published in 2014. Everyday Sexism was named one of the Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of the year and shortlisted for the Political Book Awards Polemic of the Year and Waterstone’s Book of the Year award. In 2015, she was awarded a British Empire Medal on the Queen’s birthday and named Woman of the Year by Cosmopolitan, Red Magazine and The Sunday Times. Laura has also been an active contributor for Women Under Siege and is a Patron of Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support. She regularly writes for the Guardian, TIME and Independent and works closely with politicians, school institutions and the United Nation bodies to combat gender inequality on a wider scale.
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Natasha Devon MBE 8 November 7pm-8pm, Holst Hall
Over the past decade, Natasha Devon MBE has toured the UK’s schools and colleges working with teenagers to help them overcome common mental health and body image issues. She works with leading experts in the field to answer dilemmas relating to social media and technology, self-harm, healthy relationships, consent and academic stress. In her talk, Natasha will share her top 3 tips for increasing self-esteem in young people and imbedding mental wellbeing into both school and home life. She will discuss the unique functions of the teenage brain and how young people can navigate the modern world successfully, on their own terms. Natasha is a certified instructor for B-eat (www.b-eat.co.uk) and Mental Health First Aid England (www.mhfaengland.org.uk). She is a Fellow at the University of Wales: Aberystwyth and advises them on campus wellbeing. Natasha is co-founder of the Self-Esteem Team (www.selfesteemteam.org) as well as of the charity Body Gossip (www.bodygossip.org). She is co-author of ‘Fundamentals: A Guide for Parents and Teachers on Mental Health’ and the best-selling ‘Self-Esteem Team’s Guide to Sex, Drugs & WTFs?!!’ Natasha has been given awards from the Mental Health Association and the government’s ‘Be Real’ body image initiative, in the education category. In 2015 she was given an MBE, for services to young people.
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