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We All Need Role Models – Especially the Real Kind

We All Need Role Models – Especially the Real Kind

Exploring the urgent need for authentic role models in a world of toxic influencers. Inspired by Gareth Southgate’s Richard Dimbleby Lecture and the Netflix docu-drama Adolescence, this piece dives into how we can build better communities, connection, and conversation with young people.

28 Mar 2025 3 min read

Porn-pandemic

In a recent Ofsted survey [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57411363] it was highlighted that teenage girls were asked for nudes by up to 11 boys a night. The impact of pornography on young people is a silent pandemic that has been spreading for years. The rise of social

18 Jun 2021 3 min read

TV review - The Social Dilemma

TV review - The Social Dilemma

I watched this Netflix documentary last week. I’ve changed the way I consume social media as a result. It’s a docu-drama (half documentary and half fictionalised scenes of a ‘normal’ family interacting with each other and their phones) that discusses how social media companies monetise our attention, what

16 Nov 2020 3 min read

Changing the landscape COVID-19

Changing the landscape COVID-19

We have lived through a week that will define a generation. The COVID-19 crisis has turned the world upside down for all, but mostly for our children and young people. As the dust settles and we come to terms with the likelihood of schools being closed until September, with the

24 Mar 2020 1 min read

Say cheese!!

It’s World Smile Day today, Friday 4th October. That Friday feeling usually makes me break out in a grin, I have to say. Friday is my favourite day of the week because you have all of the anticipation of the weekend ahead plus I get to have pizza on

04 Oct 2019 2 min read

Charity Film Awards

Charity Film Awards

This year Phase has entered one of its “Let Talk [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5jBv9G9gCso_reJ5054VtMpUhDLEDM9_]” Films into the Charity Film Awards. What are these? I hear you say… The Charity Film Awards are for charities who have created videos which have the power to move, to warm

28 Nov 2018 2 min read

October Wellbeing Challenge 2018

October Wellbeing Challenge 2018

October is here and that means a new challenge! This month’s challenge is a social media detox 😱 Wait don’t close the page. I know, I know this is going to be a real challenge for some of you. It will definitely be a challenge for me. Why even

01 Oct 2018 2 min read

Social media and social change

Social media and social change

We hear a lot about social media in the news and about many of its negative effects on our brains, mental health, physical health, sleep and so on. As a young person in a school environment I am more than aware, like most of my generation, of the impacts that

23 Mar 2018 5 min read

Mental Health Awareness Week 2016

Mental Health Awareness Week 2016

(16th - 22nd May 2016, was Mental Health Awareness Week and this year the theme was relationships.) This blog post is titled 'people need other people' > “You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people

09 Jun 2016 3 min read

Relationships workshops

Relationships workshops

Recently we delivered workshops about Relationships in Hitchin Boys' School as part of the schools sex education course with year 9. The workshop starts by defining what relationships are, thinking about all the different relationships we have around us. We then move on to think about more intimate relationships.

01 Jun 2016 1 min read

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