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Charlie Waller are now taking bookings for new webinars in a free series on a wide variety of topics coming up! Aimed at parents and carers but are also perfect for young people, youth workers, employers, healthcare workers, psychology students and anyone interested in mental health.
- Teen brain and eating disorders - Jenny Langley
- Supporting Children and Young People: Low Mood and Depression - Gemma Fieldsend
- Managing the Highs and Lows: What our Experiences Taught Us - Alice Palmer and Haleem Clift
- The Teen Brain Matters - Lisa Thomson
- Why sleeping well matters and what you can do to improve it! - Christine Curl
- Loneliness: How to Support Young People - Alex Cochrane
- Perfectionism in Young People: Practical Tips for Parents, Carers and Staff - Jenny Langley
- County Lines and Safeguarding: The Teen Brain, Crime and Gangs - Alex Cochrane and Debbie Spens
Congratulations to our newly elected Slough Youth Parliament representatives: Maha Khan and Haddy Bojang.
Well done to the other four candidates for running their elections too.
Maha and Haddy will now work for SYP as part of Slough Borough Council on a two year term. We are looking forward to hearing about how you both get on!
“Hello everyone! Firstly, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who voted for me. I am extremely grateful for this role, and I will make sure to not disappoint you. I am excited to be part of the Slough Youth Parliament because I want your voices and opinions to be heard as well as it being a huge opportunity for me. I hope to achieve change, even if it is very small, to do with anything that will benefit younger generations. Once again, thank you for voting for me.”
- Maha Khan (10 Grey-Thompson)
“I would like to say thank you to everyone who voted for me for Slough youth parliament. I am looking forward to being in slough youth parliament as it is a unique opportunity, and I really believe that I could make a change around Slough. I hope to achieve more leadership, communication, organisation and resilience skills and I believe that this opportunity can do just that for me!”
- Haddy Bojang (8 Pankhurst)
We should celebrate neurodiversity – the world would be poorer and life duller if we were all the same.” Neil Milliken (Business Disability Forum)
Did you know that this week (21-27 March 2022) is Neurodiversity Celebration Week? A week-long event designed to help people learn more about neurodiversity, and for neurodiverse students to develop a more positive perception of their own unique neurodiverse traits and skills
Neurodiversity is a term that refers to the natural differences between people in the way in which their brain work and interpret information and was coined in the late 1990’s by Australian sociologist Judy Singer. It highlights that people naturally think about things differently, that we have different interests and motivations, and are naturally better at some things and poorer at others. It was originally used by the autistic community, to change the belief that autism is something to be treated and cured rather than an important and valuable part of human diversity.
It is estimated that around one in seven people (more than 15 per cent of people in the UK) are neurodivergent, meaning that the brain functions, learns and processes information differently.
The remaining majority are neurotypical, meaning that the brain functions and processes information in the way society expects.
Learning about neurodiversity can help you move the focus from impairments towards everyone’s different abilities.
The idea of neurodiversity has now been embraced as a means of empowerment and to promote the positive qualities possessed by those with a neurodevelopmental difference. It encourages people to view neurodevelopmental differences such as autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia as natural and normal variations of the human genome. Furthermore, it encourages society to reject the culturally entrenched negativity which has typically surrounded those that live, learn experience the world in a particular way that is sometimes perceived as different.
Here at Baylis Court we use multiple learning strategies to accommodate the neurodiversity of our student body and celebrate diversity of every kind.
On Tuesday 15th March, 12 of our y9’s went on a trip to “The Mathematical Institute, Oxford University” to explore different courses and careers that are open when they continue with maths after GCSE and got plenty of ideas regarding different paths they might like to take in future. They also got an insight of the process of applying to universities after their A levels. They also got a chance to meet Dr Jackie Bell mathematician, particle physicist and trainee astronaut who gave them an insight into her career journey and explained them what mathematics needed to get to space! She appeared as one of the participants on BBC Two television programme Astronauts, Do You Have What It Takes?
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Careers in… the Science of Food
There are exciting opportunities in consumer research, teaching, marketing& labelling, basic research, and nutrition whether you choose to pursue work in industry, academia, or non-profit and government institutions.
What Does It Mean to Work in Food Science?
It’s a field that includes chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, physics, engineering, nutrition, biology, math, and other disciplines.
What Kind of Income Can You Make in Science of Food Fields?
Food scientists typically earn salaries competitive with other science and engineering degrees. Most have successfully found a job or earned admission to graduate school months after graduation
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