Dear Parent/Carer,
At the end of Module 4, the Academy will take part in the second of three Cultural Capital events this academic year. Our Cultural Capital days, and week (at the end of the academic year), offer unique opportunities for students to participate in exciting activities in line with National Curriculum guidance.
The Cultural Capital day will take place on Wednesday 25th March and students in Years 7 and 8 will be taking part in a Growing Against Violence workshop.
Growing Against Violence (GAV) is a charity that aims to protect young people against peer-to-peer violence and exploitation, both on the streets and online. The charitable organisation provides evidence-based workshops focused on developing young people’s life skills, enabling them to be safe in all environments. Leigh Academy Halley has a longstanding and successful partnership with this charity, who have run workshops here for several years.
GAV aims to prevent youth violence and protect young people against exploitation by gangs and grooming both online and face-to-face. The workshops are targeted at students up to 15 years old and are delivered to students in a single-year group, thereby helping to develop a ‘herd’ resistance and the positive peer pressure needed to reject violence and the negative norms and values associated with it. The Year 7 and 8 GAV workshops are titled “Myths & Realities and Choices and Consequences”.
Attending the Academy on this day is compulsory. Students are to arrive at the usual time of 8.20am, in full Academy uniform. In a change from the usual times of the day, Year 7 students will have breaktime at 10.15am. Year 7 lunchtime remains the same, from 11.40am to 12.10pm. Year 8 students will have breaktime from 9.35am to 9.55am and their usual lunchtime at 12.45pm to 1.15pm. Those in receipt of a free school meal will be provided with lunch. This day will end earlier than usual, with Year 7 and 8 students being dismissed at 1.45pm.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email your child’s small school team.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs H. Panton
Deputy Head of Turing School