Parents offered 'bespoke' support through Teen Tips' Wellbeing Hub

Shrewsbury School is pleased to be enhancing opportunities for parents to further support their children’s personal and social development.  

In previous years the School has held a series of parent talks and webinars hosted by a range of industry experts to help guide and advise your understanding of parenting teenagers. Having reviewed attendance and the range of talks on offer, we are delighted to let you know we are enhancing this provision, but in a slightly different format.  

We will be returning to a relationship with Teen Tips and their excellent The Wellbeing Hub, which offers a vast range of bespoke support in all matters ‘teenager’ as well as monthly talks on specialist pastoral subjects with industry experts, many of whom are used by the school.  

The Teen Tips theme for this month is Screens. Research from Ofcom (2022) found that the majority of children aged 5-15-years-old went online in 2022. Additionally, just over half of children aged 8-18 have had some form of negative experience online (Ofcom, 2022). Knowing how to protect our children from online harm and how to monitor their screen time is key to ensuring they establish healthy screen habits and digital resilience, which is why we thought it would be helpful to hear from experts in the field. 

The first talk is with Karl Hopwood, an Independent Online Safety Expert, who also spoke to all teaching staff at Shrewsbury at the start of Lent Term.  Karl’s talk takes place on Thursday 19th January at 6:30pm and will look at Online Safety: The Latest Risks & Opportunities. 

All Shrewsbury School parents are registered with The Wellbeing Hub, and you can access this via our parent portal here. Comprehensive joining instructions are found on the portal. 

We will remind parents through the e-newsletter what is coming up each month but do please look at the site and the range of resources that are available on top of the monthly talks. 

Henry Farmer

Head of Pupil Wellbeing