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- Aspirations – Staff at FUS take the aspirations of our boys seriously and support them in their goals
- Extracurricular – FUS offers a wide range of extracurricular opportunities and support to engage with our boys
- Mentoring – We offer a mentoring programme which supports academic, emotional and social progress
- Wellbeing – Mental health and wellbeing are at the forefront of our provision. Students are supported through exposure to mental health education.
- Leadership – Students are encouraged to develop leadership roles to establish themselves as positive male role models
- Identity – Students will explore what it means to be a man in today’s society in preparation for adulthood
What have we achieved so far?
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- Literacy support – through collaboration with a Tik Tok author, Ben Mercer, cohorts of our boys have been able to engage meaningfully with literature, exploring masculinity through key texts, reading Ernest Hemingway as a group read and focusing on the idea of the Scholar Athlete.
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- Counselling – We have been able to provide some of our boys counselling support through the boys programme
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- Mental Health Talks – For Men’s Health Month in November, students were given input in tutor time and access to a guest speaker, Nick Elston, who spoke to them about his experiences with OCD and Depression
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- Body Image and Addiction – Shaun Flores, an ex-Vogue model, spoke to our boys about his experiences with OCD and body image issues, enabling our boys to engage meaningfully with their own identity and body confidence issues
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- Residentials – We have been able to offer our boys opportunities such as the Rona Sailing Project, where they lived and operated a Rona Sailing boat for 4 days
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- Mentoring – Cohorts of our boys have been assigned and allocated mentors who have worked with them and supported them in their development and journey throughout the year
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- Gym Visits – We have collaborated with E-Motion Fitness Hub to provide our boys with tips and tricks in how to look after their physical health.
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- Life coaches – We have had boys working with Life coaches to talk about communication as a male and how this can be problematic, offering them key takeaways to ensure that they are able to control the reaction of conversations that they have.