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.
The projects submitted were of really high quality this year and ranged from written reports including Reuben’s work on orangutans and Demir’s on gorillas to creative projects including Izzy’s pink river dolphins display board and Sophie’s poster on gorillas which we have also studied in lesson time.
Student’s voted on who they felt had created the most creative and informative projects. With Ava’s poison dart frog winning most creative and Darcy’s forest elephant research being voted most informative. Meanwhile, Miss Wood has awarded the best all-round project to Kacper for his creative giant otter environment display, combined with detailed research.
On Saturday 4th December 36 hardy participants continued their training aiming at making the 6-man Teams for the Ten Tors Event 2022.
