Arc news: March 2018

Watch our new Broadcast Junior online safety trailer

Presenting Arc's new short trailer for our internet/technology safety awareness programme for primary schoolchildren.

Broadcast Junior is an interactive drama and multi-media programme for pupils in Years 3 to 6 (aged 7 to 11) in primary schools in the London Boroughs and beyond. Using first class facilitation and participative Forum Theatre with professional actors, workshops are designed to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable young people and prevent digital misuse and exposure to online abuse and exploitation.

 

Broadcast for secondary schools

Broadcast Junior is the primary school version of Arc's original programme for secondary schools. Broadcast was specifically created to inform young audiences of the facts surrounding sexting, raise awareness about the law and consequences, signpost relevant services, and equip young people with basic communication tools and reasoned arguments to enable them to make real change in their own choices and behaviours.

sexting. The ‘exchange of sexual messages or images’ (Livingstone et al., 2011) and ‘the creating, sharing and forwarding of sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images’ (Lenhart, 2009), through mobile phones and/or the internet.

Quantitative research on the subject has found participation figures among young people in the UK as wide as 15-40%.  However, quantitative research alone cannot offer in-depth understandings about the nature or complexity of this contemporary form of sexual expression or activity.  (Information taken from the report on sexting for the NSPCC, 2012).

Broadcast and Broadcast Junior are both available for block booking by Local Authorities, and for one day of workshops to individual schools and youth venues - for further information, contact Natalie Smith, Education Director at Arc on 020 8595 8509 or email nat@arctheatre.com.