Young People & Explicit Online Content; the problem, the parents, and what we are hearing in schools - Monday 20 May 2024 (Online)
Description
It Happens Education visit hundreds of schools across the UK and beyond delivering RSHE sessions, they gather extensive amounts of data and student voice from students, parents and teachers. Explicit content is clearly a problem for so many school communities. This extended twilight webinar will be delivered by Amy Forbes-Robertson (Director of It Happens Education). The session will be packed with interaction & engaging activities. You will read, watch and discuss this challenging topic with colleagues… and we promise sufficient screen breaks for all! We plan to explore:
- What is the current UK data showing? Delving into the recent Children’s Commissioner Reports…
- How much do parents really understand the content, context and algorithms?
- What voices we are hearing from young people in schools, could they be the solution?
- What issues we are hearing from teachers/boarding house staff in schools?
And can we find a protective & preventative solution to this issue? What can schools do to offer meaningful education in this space that sits comfortably with safeguarding/behaviour policy and the current DfE RSHE guidance?
Speaker Biography:
Amy Forbes-Robertson (BA MPhil PGCE QTS) is a qualified teacher (KS3 & KS4), a published author and Founding Director of It Happens Education. Amy is out & about delivering an array of our work in schools.
Amy leads on consultancy work for programmes, resources and projects with organisations such as Channel 4, BBC Teach, BBC Bitesize and Operation Ouch. She is also involved with academic research in the sector, recently collaborating with The University of Westminster and The University of Surrey.
For the last 20 years, Amy has worked in and around education. During this time, Amy has interacted with young people and their parents, carers and teachers; as a volunteer, a community outreach worker, in youth work, as a school governor and also as an accredited trainer for Cambridge Assessment International where she has delivered teacher training both online and in international educational establishments. Amy is also a project leader for the Beacons educational project at The Hay Literature Festival. Which is ideal. Because she really loves good books.In 2015, Amy stepped out of the classroom and joined Alexandra Fryer, delivering RSHE in schools. Since then she has devoted her full-time working career to the subject. Initially as a self-employed independent, then an LLP partner and now as Director of It Happens Education Limited.
Amy is consistently amazed by brilliant young people and their worlds. She is empathic and intrinsically understands the complexity of lives lived between family, friends, home & school-settings. Amy has been closely involved in pastoral care and safeguarding issues and is familiar with the challenges that face young people as they experiment with their own friendships, relationships and identities in our complex culture. Amy believes that everyone deserves a safe & judgement free space to talk about some of the trickier RSHE topics history has handed us.
Most importantly Amy has a wonderful ability to communicate and connect with young people; she is very hopeful about the next generation, and this is resoundingly clear in all of her work…
She is also a mother of two amazing little people, Albie (13) & Flora (11).