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To families of students in CU1, WN3, FN5, WN8 & CL9. Dear parent/carer As a school we are taking part in the NHS England Young Person's Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use (SDD) survey 2025. This is being facilitated by IPSOS. The purpose of the survey is to find out about young people’s attitudes to smoking, vaping, drinking and drugs and to inform future Health and Education policy. Further information about the survey is attached. To take part in the survey we have chosen one tutor group from each school year group. Your child's tutor group has been chosen to take part. The answers given by students are completely confidential and cannot be traced back or credited to any particular student. All the students use the same school ID so the results can only be traced to our school not any particular student. At the start of the year all students took part in a lesson explaining the details and purpose of the survey. The students who have been chosen to take part have been sent the student information and privacy information attached. If you have any further questions about this or would prefer that your child does not take part in the survey please let me know before Wednesday 18th November. Thank you Miss C Warburton - PSHE Subject Lead
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Balshaw's Association PTA

You can find information about the Balshaw's Association PTA here.

Child Online Safety

Some of you may have seen or heard about the Channel 4 programme ‘Hunting the Paedophiles: Inside the NCA’ which was aired on Monday 7th December.

If you have any concerns regarding your child’s online safety there is an excellent site at https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/. This contains information and advice both on the issues raised by the programme and other aspects of online safety.

We are going to be giving our students the advice that they should spend some time over the Christmas holidays checking their social media sites. So that parents and students can review their privacy settings and contacts e.g. removing contacts that are not known on a face to face basis.

We think that the programme mentioned above is an excellent resource that we are considering using in our PSHE lessons.

We have an Online Safety webpage full of useful information here and you can access our Online Safety Policy on our School Policies webpage here.