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Over the past few months we have been developing upon and increasing our knowledge of self-harm, which has sadly impacted the lives of many...

Over the past few months we have been developing upon and increasing our knowledge of self-harm, which has sadly impacted the lives of many young people and their families in our town. We continue to deliver our self-harm support groups in the schools, providing a safe space for young people

Primary Schools Workers GatheringWe have a guest article written by Mary Deller who helps us with our workshops with year 6...

Primary Schools Workers Gathering We have a guest article written by Mary Deller who helps us with our workshops with year 6 students… A ‘first’gathering of primary schools’ workers in the county took place on Wednesday 14th January, at Harpenden. The sharing and networking event was organised by Paul

Last term The Priory School chose Phase as their local charity of the year. Over charity week, the whole school - students and staff - got...

Last term The Priory School chose Phase as their local charity of the year. Over charity week, the whole school - students and staff - got involved in a whole variety of ways to raise funds for Phase. There were cake sales, penalty shootouts, sponsored silences and even a panto!

Resourceful Workshops Year 7's at Hitchin Boys School are currently completing a year-long program to help them adapt to secondary school...

Resourceful Workshops Year 7’s at Hitchin Boys School are currently completing a year-long program to help them adapt to secondary school life. The program considers four R’s: Resourceful, Resilience, Reflective and Reciprocity. We are delivering workshops each half term helping expand on what these R’s mean and

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Christmas Unwrapped We have already delivered our first few Christmas Unwrapped workshops to year 6 students and have some more to come. In...

Christmas Unwrapped We have already delivered our first few Christmas Unwrapped workshops to year 6 students and have some more to come. In total we are delivering 11 workshops in 9 different junior schools seeing over 300 students! We look at the Christmas story from a few different angles using

Self-Esteem

During this term we have been delivering our award winning RISE course to over 350 students. During the 4 sessions we help and encourage...

During this term we have been delivering our award winning RISE course to over 350 students. During the 4 sessions we help and encourage the students to think about who they are, how they feel about themselves, who they want to be and what difference they can make in their

Over the last few weeks we have been doing lessons with year 10 at Hitchin Boys’ School looking at what Christians think about...

Over the lastfew weeks we have been doing lessons with year 10 at Hitchin Boys’ School looking at what Christians think about poverty. It’s a great opportunity to explore the bible with these students and look at some of the key things Jesus did and taught about, to try

Throughout the year we have various people come into help us with different projects and activities, one person who has given time over the...

Throughout the year we have various people come into help us with different projects and activities, one person who has given time over the last few years is Simon Bagg. For the past few summers, Simon has come into PHASE to help us prepare for our summer camps - Westbrook

Fuel Training On Tuesday 30th September we held a training evening for anyone involved in youth and children’s work. We run Fuel...

Fuel Training On Tuesday 30th September we held a training evening for anyone involved in youth and children’s work. We run Fuel training twice a year and it grows more popular each time. Over 65 people joined us for an evening of equipping, encouraging and being inspired! The evening

On Your Marks Our year 6 programme of workshops got underway in September. We delivered a workshop called On Your Marks to 8 different...

On Your Marks Our year 6 programme of workshops got underway in September. We delivered a workshop called On Your Marks to 8 different junior schools, which is over 250 students! During the workshop we look at how students can get the most out of year 6 and look ahead

We asked our Naomi what she thought about Westbrook Reloaded summer camp, here’s what she said: I chose to go to Westbrook Reloaded...

We asked our Naomi what she thought about Westbrook Reloaded summer camp, here’s what she said: I chose to go to Westbrook Reloaded because it’s a great week away where you can be with likeminded people and have fun. I went to Westbrook with a good group of

For the last few years we have been involved in helping to deliver part of the curriculum for sex education with year 9 at Hitchin...

For the last few years we have been involved in helping to deliver part of the curriculum for sex education with year 9 at Hitchin Boys’ School. We see the whole of the year group over one busy morning as they go round different sessions to do with sex education.

Over the last few weeks we have been visiting local junior schools to deliver a workshop to their year 6 students to help them think through...

Over the last few weeks we have been visiting local junior schools to deliver a workshop to their year 6 students to help them think through their big move up to secondary school. We visited 8 schools and delivered 9 workshops, giving each student an “It’s Your Move’ book

Time trek Every Tuesday of half term, the Forum (the youth and children’s teams from across the churches) put on a one day holiday...

Time trekEvery Tuesday of half term, the Forum (the youth and children’s teams from across the churches) put on a one day holiday club called time trek that tours round the different churches in the town. This half term we were at Christchurch and had nearly 40 children come

As part of our expanding work, we have begun to deliver self-harm support groups, where we take students through a 6-week course. During...

As part of our expanding work, we have begun to deliver self-harm support groups, where we take students through a 6-week course. During this time we look at the reasons why we self-harm, the triggers, gathering a toolbox to help us through and then moving on to what the future

Holding Nothing Back Day - The Great British Come Dine With Me! In the first week of the Easter holidays we got together with some of the...

Holding Nothing Back Day - The Great British Come Dine With Me! In the first week of the Easter holidays we got together with some of the young people from the different Holding Nothing Back groups (our lunchtime groups in the secondary schools). As you might be able to tell

Easter assemblies in Hitchin Girls School The Easter Egg above looks really nice but when they were put in front students of Hitchin...

Easter assemblies in Hitchin Girls School The Easter Egg above looks really nice but when they were put in front students of Hitchin Girls’ School they didn’t last very long! As an introduction to our assembly we asked for 2 volunteers to come and eat as much chocolate as

Fuel Training Twice a year the Forum (the youth and children’s leaders from across the churches in Hitchin) run a training evening...

Fuel TrainingTwice a year the Forum (the youth and children’s leaders from across the churches in Hitchin) run a training evening called FUEL. We have been doing this for the past few years and it has been getting better and better each time.Recently we had 70 leaders from

High Sheriff Award Thursday evening saw PHASE receive a High Sheriff of Hertfordshire award for their work with young people in the...

High Sheriff Award Thursday evening saw PHASE receive a High Sheriff of Hertfordshire award for their work with young people in the community, specifically the ‘RISE’ project. RISE is an initiative aimed at equipping young people with the tools and understanding of themselves, their action and choices and that they

Easter Cracked This Easter we have been continuing to build our work in primary schools with year 6. We are delivering a workshop looking at...

Easter Cracked This Easter we have been continuing to build our work in primary schools with year 6. We are delivering a workshop looking at the Easter story in 7 different junior schools, which is 3 more than we did at Christmas! It has been a great time of hearing

With pressure building up as year 11 head towards their GCSE’s we were asked to lead a session looking at ’how to deal with...

With pressure building up as year 11 head towards their GCSE’s we were asked to lead a session looking at ’how to deal with stress’ in Hitchin Girls School. We spent the first part of the lesson looking at where they get stressed and the things they already do

Fairtrade Fortnight Fairtrade fortnight happens at the same time every year and is a great opportunity for us to promote fair-trade and the...

Fairtrade Fortnight Fairtrade fortnight happens at the same time every year and is a great opportunity for us to promote fair-trade and the values behind it. It’s great seeing the students engage with the idea of helping those in less fortunate situations and challenging their values around consumerism and

Harry’s Story Part of our role in schools is to do one-to-one mentoring with students. Harry is one of these students, here is a...

Harry’s Story Part of our role in schools is to do one-to-one mentoring with students. Harry is one of these students, here is a letter that he sent us recently that he has allowed us to share with you all. “For the past 3 months I have been receiving

Time Trek On the Tuesday in half term we gathered at HCC for this terms Time Trek event. Aided by an amazing team of volunteers we ran an...

Time Trek On the Tuesday in half term we gathered at HCC for this terms Time Trek event. Aided by an amazing team of volunteers we ran an afternoon of fun, games, crafts, drama and music. This time we were joined by 50 kids from different churches and schools across