Loudmouth Bulletin May 2024
There is a lot going on at Loudmouth and so we thought you might like to know what we have been doing and what we are working on with the return of a primary school favourite, highlight on staff wellbeing and how you can help us to develop our child exploitation programmes. We have some news too on knife crime awareness week and a free resource on sexual extortion.
May 02, 2024
KEEP UP TO DATE WITH LATEST NEWS ON LOUDMOUTH - MAY 2024
The Bully Busters are Back! Popular Primary Programme Returns
Due to popular demand, our primary bullying programme Bully 4 U is running until the end of the summer term. If you are looking for slots in the next couple of weeks we may even have some Super offers. Ring 0121 446 4880 or visit our Bully 4 U webpage to find out more.
How Loudmouth Programmes on Puberty can Support Staff Wellbeing in Primary Schools
Read how using classroom visitors like Loudmouth can help to ease some stress and anxiety on teachers delivering puberty education using this link.
Revamp of our Child Exploitation Programmes for Primary and Secondary Schools
We are doing some updates on our Helping Hands and Working for Marcus. We are being asked more and more about county lines and the drug, knife crime and criminal exploitation aspects and so will be working on these ready to go into schools with the new versions in September. If you work with children or young people around child exploitation then we would like to hear from you with this short survey to help us develop our child exploitation programmes. Click here for the survey.
Knife Crime Awareness Week 2024 - Loudmouth Support for Seconday Schools
Knife Crime Awareness Week takes place between the 20th and 26th May 2024. This week-long initiative aims to shed light on the detrimental effects of knife crime while providing educational resources about its risks and consequences. Read here about how our programme on criminal exploitation could work as part of your work during Knife Crime Awareness Week.
Sextortion - Free Lesson Plan for Secondary Venues
In April 2024, The National Crime Agency have issued an alert around 'sextortion'. Sextortion or Sexual Extortion involves people being forced into paying money or meeting another financial demand, after an offender has threatened to release nude or semi-nude photos of them. This may be a topic your students may be concerned about or you want to make sure you are equipping them in case they are blackmailed in this way. You can access a free lesson plan on Sextortion here.
Loudmouth is Thirty!
In case you missed it, we turned 30 earlier this year. Read here about how Loudmouth (and the world) has changed in the last three decades.