Teignmouth Community College
We have great links with TCC doing regular assemblies to all five year groups, leading some SMS ( Spiritual & Moral Studies) lessons on Who is Jesus? Why do Christians pray? And the Death & resurrection of Jesus in years 7,8,9. We also help support the Peer Support programme within the College –training the Peer Supporters and then being available one lunchtime per week to assist them. We are also going to launch a new Christian Union in September along the lines of Rock Solid in partnership with two local churches. We are also leading a Year10/11 ASDAN additional studies programme.
- We are involved in establishing and now developing a Peer Support programme in TCC that operates each week day at lunchtimes in a classroom and in Year 7 form rooms. The Peer Supporters are Year 10 pupils who have undergone some training and their role is to be a friendly face, someone to talk to who isn’t a teacher about issues that a younger pupil might worry about but not talk to anyone about – such as bullying, being lonely, having no friends. Peer Supporters who become the first line of support for younger pupils in Teignmouth Community College who may feel lonely, upset and want a friendly face to help them.
- As a qualified teacher I am involved in taking SMS (Spiritual and Moral Studies) lessons each year focusing on Who is Jesus? , Why do Christians pray? Death & resurrection of Jesus? These lessons are with Years 7,8,9 and are a great way of speaking to young people about our faith, about them having opportunity to ask questions of a Christian that they would not otherwise have answered & are a great opportunity to see young people We meet on the streets in another context.
- We are also part of a team who go into TCC regularly to take assemblies – my aim is to make them fun, relevant, informative and thought provoking and leave the pupils with a challenge or thought for the day. Sometimes I manage this sadly at others I don’t! Whilst the opportunity is only short in terms of time it is another opportunity to see young people and for them to see me involved in their school lives as well as their outside school lives. I also have the opportunity to follow up with the young people out on the streets.
- ASDAN – this is a group of pupils in Year 11 who are following an alternative curriculum. The ASDAN group choose and set themselves a series of challenges that they then have to meet and produce evidence of this. The pupils then develop a portfolio of evidence and once this is completed it is moderated and if they have produced sufficient evidence they are awarded the ASDAN Award.
