EMPOWERING TEENAGERS
Highgate Our Way Navigating teenage years with confidence Highgate’s sporting health and gymnastics. initiative, ‘Highgate Her/His/Their Among the many action points, Way’, supports pupils to navigate there has been a focus on how to puberty with confidence and build minimise injury risk for girls by a lifelong love of exercise. building up physical resilience National statistics indicate from a much younger age. Sports that approximately 65% of kits for both boys and girls have girls (double the rate of boys) been refreshed; first aid kits now drop out of sport by the end of include period products; there is puberty due to a lack of physical better education around sports resilience and a woeful shortage bras; and conversations around of education around puberty and periods and body health are periods. Highgate’s original plan, delivered to all genders. PSHE formulated three years ago to lessons encourage positive image empower girls to develop physical identity for boys, challenge gender confidence, has evolved to promote stereotypes and promote good healthy lifestyles and sporting mental and physical health. options for all genders; whether A new campaign within it’s girls gaining confidence in the project, ‘Big Brother, Big traditionally male-dominated Sister’, will see Senior School sports or boys finding joy in dance ambassadors visiting Years
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5 and 6 in the Junior School to normalise conversations around puberty. Pupil Head of School, Henry, explains: “As an older pupil, I know there are many questions, problems and mysteries that they are thinking about. As a ‘Big Brother’, I can help answer these questions and make them feel more comfortable as they grow up.” FRANCESCA MAGUIRE PR and Communications Specialist www.highgateschool.org.uk TURN TO PAGE 53 to read about Inspirational Alumni Networks