We are now halfway through our Send me a selfie programs at both Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary & Broadsquare Primary, and we are having a fantastic time working with the students and teachers! The children are enjoying the program and developing their skills which is very exciting to see, and we can’t wait to continue to guide them and see their progress.

We have had a great second week of our 12 week ‘Send me a Selfie’ programmes in Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary & Broad Square primary. All classes have completed all of the freeze frame exercises, exploring the characters from our film, and how to show their emotions without speech or movement.

We are pleased to announce that Ariel Trust has completed the first week of workshops delivering the Send Me A Selfie program to both Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary and Broad Square Primary school.

Merseyside Police’s Operation Payback uses money that has been seized under the ‘Misuse of Drugs Act’ to support local charities who work in our communities to protect children from crime. Today Op Payback’s Paul Doran presented a cheque to Ariel trust for the work that they have been doing to widen the impact of their 'Grassing or Grooming?' project.

Ariel is really pleased that The National Lottery have agreed to fund our face-to-face work with children for a further three years.

Ariel Trust is dedicated to enhancing parental engagement with the workshops and projects that are conducted in schools.

The Women and Equalities Committee of the House of Commons this week published a report; ‘Attitudes to Women and Girls in Education Settings’.  The report highlighted the levels of sexual harassment experienced by children, from their peers, including harassment relating to the sharing of explicit images "Some nine in 10 girls and half of boys told Ofsted that they or their peers were regularly exposed to unwanted explicit images or videos”.

Ariel is looking for primary schools in Lancashire who would like to pilot our ‘Skills for Healthy Relationships’ resource. We will provide you with training for your staff and access to the resources. All we ask in return is that you will collect and provide us with some evaluation data and feedback. Is this something you would like to learn more about? Please download the flyer below and contact paul@arieltrust.com for more information.

This was the view of Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner, Emily Spurrell, who spent time observing a refusal skills workshop delivered as part of the project.

'Skills for Healthy Relationships' was launched in partnership with Merseyside PCC, Emily Spurrell and Liverpool Mayor, Joanne Anderson last week.  Children from St Cecilia's Junior School performed their forum theatre images, exploring themes from the animation 'Send me a Selfie' before speaking to the audience and media about