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Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 – resources for young people
29 April 2022
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week will run from 9–15 May and the theme is the impact of loneliness and how we can tackle it. Recent research by the Mental Health Foundation has found many people have increasingly been suffering from feelings of isolation and loneliness and this can affect people of all ages. The campaign will ...
“Be a Book Critic” competition winners revealed
29 April 2022
Berkshire reading charity ABC to Read launched a competition to encourage local youngsters to engage with climate change while inspiring and challenging their inner literary critic. The competition was open to all children and primary schools across Berkshire. Children were invited to read a book about climate change and create a review to tell others ...
Parenting Special Children – upcoming events
29 April 2022
Let’s Get Creative – 7 May, 11 June and 2 July Music and drama sessions for ages 5 to 12 year olds. Morning session for adopted children and Afternoon for children living with kinship carers. The May session will be available for booking soon. An Adopters Support Group and Kinship Carer Support Group will be running alongside the sessions ...
Safe spaces for young people in the community
29 April 2022
The Safe Places and Signposting working group is looking at how it can set up and run safe places and activities, like youth clubs, for young people in Reading, utilising spaces within our communities. This work has been set up in response to the rising knife crime incidents locally in recent years and the feeling ...
Meet Sophie Roseaman, Family Worker and Family Hub Lead at Thameside Primary School
25 April 2022
Sophie Roseaman is Thameside’s Family Hub Lead, also known as a Family Worker. Sophie has been at Thameside Primary School for many years but in this new post since September 2021. When I was asked to write a column for the One Reading Children and Young People’s Partnership newsletter it made me think more deeply about ...
