Helldivers 2- Safety information

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 A new online game that is available on PlayStation and PC has a peak simultaneous player count called Helldivers 2. 

Many young gamers are actively playing this title, both with friends and with strangers via online multiplayer – despite the game’s 18+ rating. 

Unfortunately, the gore and violence of Helldivers 2 (combined with its in-game purchases and the ability to play with unfamiliar people online) present significant online safety concerns for its younger players. The PDF guide attached explores these issues in detail and advises on minimising the risks to children and young people.

 

 

Miss Gibbons
Assistant Headteacher 

Potential Kids May Half Term Activities

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Please see the below flyers from Potential Kids.

Year 10 & 12 Navy Visit

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Last Friday Will Hicks from the Royal Navy came into Townsend to speak to our Year 10 and 12 students about careers in the Navy.

 

On Friday 26th April Will Hicks from the Royal Navy gave a presentation to years 10 and 12 about careers and apprenticeships in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines. Students were shown some really interesting video footage and were given lots of information about career paths in the different parts of the Navy and also the organisations which support the Navy.

There was a chance to ask questions at the end and leaflets were given out to those students who were interested, which gave guidance on where to find out more information about careers in the Royal Navy. I have quite a few spare leaflets if any student who is thinking about a naval career would like to get one from me.

 

 

Mrs Davey
Assistant Headteacher 

BeeZee Bodies Flyer

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Please see the below flyer from BeeZee Bodies.

 

Family Lives Summer Programme

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Please see the attached flyer from Family Lives.

Abbey Service – 9th May 2024

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We will be attending St Albans Cathedral for an Ascension Service on Thursday 9th May at 2pm.

Parents/carers are welcome to attend. Please let the office know you would like to reserve a seat via admin@ townsend.herts.sch.uk

All students will be attending, walking from school to the cathedral accompanied by staff.

Students will be going home straight from the cathedral. There will be no Barnetts or Motts buses that afternoon. Please ensure your child knows how they are going home.

There will, though, be transport for students, who need to be collected from school. If your child requires being brought back to school, please contact admin@townsend.herts.sch.uk by Friday 3rd May to arrange a space. We cannot guarantee a space if notified after this date.

For this service, we will be collecting donations for St Albans Action for Homeless, a local charity recently chosen by our new Head Student team to support over a year-long partnership. Students will be learning more about this charity next week in Collective Worship assemblies. Donations can be made either in form time on 7th/8th May, on School Gateway, or during the service itself.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Kindest regards,

Mrs Line
Deputy Headteacher

OCCA Visit

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Today we had the pleasure of receiving a visit from OCCA (The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics).

Our Year 12 students spent a couple hours with OCCA along with some other students from local schools. The event ran for a couple of hours consisting of Q+A style sessions and team building exercises where sixth form students were able to ask questions about the Christian faith.

Here are some of the questions the sixth formers came up with for our hosts:

How do you believe that science and religion can work in unison?

Who created God?

How in a world of science and technology, how do we know what the truth is?

What is the evidence for God?

Alanzo and Tom from OCCA shared their stories and answered some questions along with the help of our friends from Step.

 

 

https://www.theocca.org/

https://www.stepschoolswork.org.uk/

Townsend’s Family Fun Run!

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Mental Health Awareness Week takes place in May.

The theme this year is “Movement: Moving more for our mental health”. To kick start the week we are organising a big family fun run and would like as many people in our school community to take part as possible.

The event will take place on Saturday 11th May at 2pm and we invite all students and their parents/carers, siblings and extended family to take part. Entry is £2 per person and all money raised will be going to one of our school charities: Youth Talk. This is a fantastic local charity that supports many of our students, if you would like to donate, please click on the link: https://www.justgiving.com/page/townsend-school-1711022110282?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Ftownsend-school-1711022110282&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share 

The fun run is a 2k course and will not be timed, it’s a fun community event where people can choose to run, walk or jog.

The run will start on the school field behind the Discovery Centre and the route is all on grass.

Our school PTA will be selling refreshments afterwards.

If you would like to take part then please complete the Google form and then send payment via School Gateway.

https://forms.gle/3kETcXzBi3yep6Dz9

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mrs Scott
Student and Family Wellbeing

Cyber Choices and Online Safety Events

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Please see below the attached leaflet promoting ERSOU’s Cyber Choices and Online Safety Events.

Year 11 Leavers Assembly

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Friday 21st June 11:30am- 12:30pm.

All Year 11 students and parents/carers are welcome to attend our Celebration Event on Friday 21st June 11:30am – 12:30pm in the school hall. If you would like to attend you must complete the form on Edulink. When logging onto Edulink please click on the green circle labelled ‘Forms’ and complete the form named ‘Year 11 Celebration Event’, this will allow us to know how many pupils and parents/carers will be attending.

If you don’t have an Edulink account or don’t know how to log on and access the form, then please contact the school office.

Kind regards,

Mr A Still
Head of Year 11

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