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West Midlands Peer Support Network

The West Midlands Peer Support Network This is a group of schools where Netta Cartwright, the director of Peer Support Works (www.peersupportworks.co.uk) has set up co-counselling peer support based on the Re-evaluation Counselling model (www.rc.org) The main participants in the network are Wolstanton High School, Newcastle –under Lyme, Longton High School, Stoke-on-Trent , Rising Brook Sports College Stafford, Wilnecote High School, Tamworth and Hagley Park Sports College, Rugeley. Other schools active in the network are:

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YOUTH VOICE PEER POWER Workshop Thursday Feb 1st



Rising Brook Baptist Church, Stafford

40 peer mentors aged 9 to 16 and their mentees aged 11 to 12 worked  together to kick start a project to produce a PDF on- line booklet for school students on how to solve everyday problems in schools such as bullying, work and exam stress, and  peer pressure. The students from 5 high schools in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent have been funded by the Big Lottery  to produce the booklet which should be on line in the Autumn.

For more information on how the day went, you can download the full press release click here.

To view some of the work that we did on the day, click on the image

Youth Voice Peer Power Workshop



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December 5th Longton High School 2007


Longton High School buddies along with Woltanton High buddies spent a great day talking about the different issues that young people face and what advice they would give to other young people. Click here to see more....
If you want to see the end product click on the front cover

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A Big Thank You
 
I want to thank all those students and teachers involved from the following schools in the West Midlands Peer Support Network over the past three years .
 
Longton High School, Stoke-on-Trent;
Birches Head High School, Stoke-on-Trent;
Hageley Park Sports college, Rugeley;
Wolstanton High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Wilnecote High School, Tamworth;
Two Rivers Community School, Tamworth
Rising Brook High School, Stafford;
Walton High School, Stafford; 
Sir Graham Balfour Hight School, Stafford.
 
Thanks to those students and teachers  from Longton High School, Hageley Park Sports College  and Wilnecote High, School who participated in three weekend conferences in Cheshire (2006),  Hertfordshire (2007) and Southhampton (2008).
 
Thanks to students and teachers from Longton High School and Birches Head High school who put forwrd their ideas in a think tank in Stoke-on-Trent to initiaite the project in 2006.
 
Thanks to students and teachers from nearly all of the schools who participated at two Conferences  in Stafford in 2007 and 2008. Thanks to Stafford MP David Kidney and Children's Commissioner Gill Stanford for supporting them at the 2008 conference.
 
Thanks to the peer supporters Longton High School, Wolstanton High School who in two workshops wrote the Buddy Guide Comic for school websites. Thanks to the staff from the two schools, the TSA, Media Divas the Anti-Bullying Alliance  and Peer Support Works who supported them in doing this work.
 
 
It has been great working with you all!
 
Netta Cartwright   Peer Support Works (www.peersupportworks.co.uk ) Midlands Peer Support Network co-ordinator for the YVPP.

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