How to Grow a Grown-up - Parenting in a Pandemic
On Thursday 3 February from 6.30 pm we yet again have Dr Dominique Thompson giving a talk on how best to support your child particularly since lock down.
Dominique is an award-winning GP, young people's mental health and parenting support expert, TEDx speaker, author and educator, with two decades of clinical experience.
She is co-author of How to Grow a Grown Up (PenguinRandomHouse), a book written to support parents to raise independent and resilient young people in the 21st century.
To support parents further
Dominique hosts a private Facebook community for parents to create safe spaces to share their concerns or ask for help, and she writes regular blogs on a vast array of parenting topics. She also hosts webinars for parents on supporting their child’s mental health, and writes a regular free newsletter for parents.
Check out the www.growingagrownup.com website to find out more.
(Dominique is a mum of 1 and step mum to 4 young adults!)
For young people she has written The Student Wellbeing Series (Trigger Press) – a series of guides to life at university, and mental health.
Dominique has done two TEDx talks; ‘What I learnt from 78000 GP consultations with university students’ and ‘Understanding Why’.
Dominique is a Clinical Advisor for NICE, RCGP and Student Minds.
Dominique is lead clinical advisor for Aardman Animation’s What’s Up with Everyone? campaign, and for Being Well, Living Well Epigeum
Further information about Dominique www.buzzconsulting.co.uk
We hope that many parents will attend. On previous occasions parents have given positive feedback regarding Dominique's talk and Q&A sessions afterwards.
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Year 10 Food Nutrition & Preparation
The latest Ten Tors 2022 training expedition took place on Saturday 8th January 2022. It felt great to get the new-year started by getting some chalky miles under our boots up in the Marlborough Downs. The forecast was absolutely terrible (ongoing torrential rain), so much so that the persistent drizzle, chilly wind and occasional showers were actually somewhat welcome - our first opportunity thus far to evaluate our waterproofs! The hilly tracks were also irritatingly wet, muddy and slippery and a few students painted themselves brown (you know who you are!). 
The weather and the larger bags took their toll, and some students found the going increasingly difficult. Full respect to those who battled through until the very end (even choosing to add 4km on at the end to 'get back to the bus'). I loved it and hope it's prepared the students for the famously gruelling Imber Range Expedition next weekend.
