Newcastle United Foundation offer a FREE football session in Ashington on a Friday evening for boys and girls aged 8-18.
Newcastle United Foundation Premier League Kicks provides young people aged 8 to 18 the opportunity to play football for FREE, for 48 weeks of the year in a safe, supervised environment with our charity’s coaching staff.
Please see below, that can be attached and link for registration.
https://ile5o88bign.typeform.com/to/vuz4fIXp?typeform-source=www.nufoundation.org.uk
An estimated one-third of children have a social media account, so it’s important that trusted adults know what content young people are consuming, what they’re posting and the interactions they’re having. On social media, it can be easy to go down a rabbit hole that isn’t beneficial to our wellbeing. As platforms grapple with managing ‘legal but harmful’ content, lives are being impacted – sometimes to tragic effect. We might be daunted by the scale of the tech giants and their content which enthrals young people, but we can still help children to be mindful of their mental wellness: recognising when something isn’t OK … and knowing what to do about content that upsets them.
In the guide, you’ll find tips such as how to hide content, setting daily limits and discussing what children have seen online.
TikTok is a free social media platform that lets users create, share and watch short videos ranging anywhere from 15 seconds to 10 minutes in duration. The app gained notoriety for its viral dances, trends and celebrity cameos and can be a creative, fun platform for teens to enjoy. Now available in 75 languages, it has more than a billion active users worldwide (as of spring 2022) and is most popular with the under-16 age bracket. In fact, a 2022 Ofcom report found TikTok to be the most-used social media platform for posting content, particularly among young people aged 12 to 17.
The euthanasia debate, centring around people with either a terminal illness or an agonising incurable condition, is a complex one that’s been rumbling on for years. Of late, however, it’s gained a new dimension on TikTok, with some content creators gaining popularity for suggesting that assisted suicide should be available to those experiencing severe mental health issues.
Some of this material, often referred to as MAiD (medical assistance in dying), has accrued millions of views and – more worryingly – hundreds of thousands of likes, along with many supportive comments. It’s not the first time the platform has faced a dilemma over legal but potentially damaging content; this #WakeUpWednesday, check out our updated guide to TikTok.
The Call of Duty (CoD) series is a worldwide gaming phenomenon, with millions of copies sold every year. While 2021’s release, Vanguard, wasn’t quite as well received, this latest entry – Modern Warfare II – is proving to be hugely popular. A sequel to the recent Modern Warfare reboot (and not to be confused with the original Modern Warfare 2, from back in 2009), the game is an online shooter which features – unsurprisingly – extreme violence, rendered in realistic graphics. Amid the explosions and potential political nature of the plot, there’s much for parents to be aware of.
In the guide, you’ll find tips on a number of potential risks such as offensive chat/messaging, in-game purchases and addiction.
Big thanks to PE staff for organising fixtures in rugby and football at Ashington RFC, Berwick and Duke’s last week for our students (action shots below) and well done to all students involved!
This week there are the following fixtures:
Wed: Y11 v Mortimer College @ Duke’s
Thurs: Y10 v St Benet Biscops @ Duke’s
Our ‘Light Elite’ student winners enjoyed the inaugural rewards trip with a visit to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife at the Cineworld venue at The Gate, Newcastle.
Thank you to Mr Taylor for organising and the Duke’s staff team for embracing the use of Class charts points for LightElite.
