Providing resources that enable teachers to replicate our skills-based approach
As a small, local charity Ariel is limited in how many children we can engage in our face-to-face programmes. As part of our commitment to reaching the largest number of children possible, we began to develop resources that could support teachers to replicate our approach in the classroom.
Over the last few years, we have developed and evaluated a number of violence prevention & safeguarding resources. The resources are designed to support the Relationship Education curriculum and provide fully resources activities, making them easy for busy teachers to use. Recent Government announcements about changes to the curriculum suggest our programmes could have greater relevance, through supporting oracy, promoting critical thinking in relation to the media and promoting positive citizenship, through bystander skills.
The programmes have been published online and offered to primary schools across Merseyside, through a programme of teacher training workshops. We have now built a community of more than 200 teachers in 160+ Merseyside primary schools, who regularly deliver our programmes, reaching more than 6,000 children every year.
We are now bringing these resources together and making them available through a single website. At the time of its launch, the ‘Ariel School Hub’ will offer access the four violence prevention resources designed for Key Stage 2, supported by demonstration videos for teachers and resources that support parental engagement. Further content will be added, including a new programme for Key Stage 1.
The ‘Ariel School Hub’ will bring together:-
- Send me a Selfie – exploring peer pressure to share images online
- A Knock at the Door – building on ‘Send me a Selfie’ to explore the law in relation to image sharing
- Grassing or Grooming? – exploring the ‘don’t be a grass culture’ in the context of gang-based grooming
- Skills to Resist Radicalisation – looking at extremism and online harms
Our resources take an evidence-based approach and have been independently evaluated by John Moores University, who have found that they deliver positive changes in awareness and in key skills development.
<LINK TO SCHOOL HUB _ COMING SOON>
