Welcome to West Thames

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• PSHE
• Higher Education (degree)
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

PRINCIPAL'S TALK

1

Excited

2

Good

3

Not Sure Yet

4

A Little Worried

5

A Mixture of Everything

How are you feeling about college?

WHAT ARE TUTORIALS FOR?

What do you think your Student Learning Advisor can help you with?

Which ONE do you think makes the biggest difference?

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🕐 Attend and arrive on time

2

🤝 Treat people with respect

3

📚 Be prepared

4

🗣️ Ask for help

5

🎯 Take responsibility

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💬 Participate

Democracy

Individual Liberty

Tolerance & Respect

Rule of Law

Which of our Shared Values do you think is most important in creating a good college community?

What does safeguarding mean?

A

Something only teachers deal with

B

Keeping people safe and responding appropriately to concerns

C

Only protecting people from physical harm

D

Something that only matters outside of college

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

1

Promise to keep it completely secret

2

Ignore it

3

Speak to an appropriate trusted member of staff / use the safeguarding route

4

Tell everyone

A peer tells you they're worried about something affecting their safety. What should they do?

Online Safety

Which of these could be warning signs online?

A

Someone sends you a suspicious link

B

Someone pressures you to move a conversation somewhere private

C

Someone asks for personal information

D

Someone creates urgency or tries to frighten you

ONLINE SAFETY SCENARIO

Someone you've been chatting to online suddenly asks for your full name, school, address and a photo. What would you do?

A

Send it

B

Ask why they need it

C

Stop and get advice/report the concern

D

Send it but delete the conversation afterwards

ATTENDANCE MATTERS

1

Attend consistently

2

Wait until the problem becomes serious

3

Ignore college messages

4

Attend only when you feel like it

Which is most likely to help you stay on track?