Tag Archives: Involving and listening to YP

Charity of the Year Saheliya: girls’ top 5 school issues for minority ethnic pupils⤴

from @ Enquire - young people's blog

saheliyaHUGE congratulations to Saheliya for scooping the Charity of the Year award at the Scottish Charity Awards. Saheliya does some amazing work to support the mental wellbeing of black and minority ethnic girls in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Charity awards Just a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hanging out with some of the Saheliya girls to find Continue reading →

Pupils’ views: what schools can do to help our mental wellbeing. Enquire conference.⤴

from @ Enquire - young people's blog

Here’s the film made about our recent event in Stirling on supporting good mental health in schools. Watching it I am reminded how awesome all the young people were who took part. Zoe and Caitlin, whose volunteering efforts for See Me and Aye Mind have attracted the attention of the royals Kate and Wills, spoke about how digital media impacts on young people’s mental health. We also heard from Gennifer, who created the website SOAR after one of her closest friends at school died of cancer. Continue reading →

Pupils speak out: how anxiety affects you at school⤴

from @ Enquire - young people's blog

Louise Comfort Zone blog Feb 16Louise is a young person from Falkirk on a campaign to help teachers get better at supporting pupils with anxiety. After her own struggle with anxiety, Louise ended up dropping out of school. She wants to make sure other young people don’t end up taking that route. “It was a very confusing feeling. I didn’t really know what was going on,” explains Louise.  “In school I often felt trapped, which caused Continue reading →

Inclusive Education: Take Action!⤴

from @ Enquire - young people's blog

hearing 3In October, 70 young people from all over Europe got together in Luxembourg to talk about how schools in their countries make sure all children are included in school life. The event was organised by the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education. (You can watch a video of the event here.) Derrick Hughes, from Cumnock Academy, and Mark Stewart, from Our Lady’s High School in Cumbernauld, travelled to Luxembourg to Continue reading →

Bringing rights alive! Calderside Academy Barriers to Learning report⤴

from @ Enquire - young people's blog

Two fourth year students from Calderside Academy have produced a really interesting report called Barriers to Learning which hopes to raise awareness of the difficulties some pupils face learning in class. The report came about after Robbie Clark and Adam Spence took part … Continue reading →

When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan⤴

from @ Enquire - young people's blog

Enquire was excited to meet author Brian Conaghan recently to talk about his fantastic book When Mr Dog Bites. The book features an utterly brilliant main character Dylan Mint who is not only coping with the ups, downs and mishaps of being a teenager… but also of having Tourette’s Syndrome. The book details Dylan’s battle to deal with the tricky stuff - the swearing, the tics and the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he is stressed. To top it off Dylan discovers, after overhearing a conversation between his doctor and his mother, that he only has a short time to live. Continue reading →