Testimonials

"Really excellent session and looking forward to implementing the resources into school – thank you!’ ‘It makes me more enthusiastic to work with young people – excellent session."

"The training our staff undertook with Kathryn was great.  She was very knowledgeable and was able to field any questions we had throughout.  The resources provided will allow our staff to educate the young people we work with every day on a very important subject."

"The workshop was hugely insightful and definitely something we can do with our young students."

"Opened my eyes!"

"Really useful. Brilliant session, thank you"

"Thank you so much for the training you carried out last week, it was extremely informative and many staff have fed back that they now feel much better prepared for delivering SMSC around the topic of alcohol and its misuse. Despite it being a twilight session after a hard day’s work, your interactive style and delivery certainly engaged staff, which really was much appreciated. It was especially useful the way you took us through the exceptional resources, which really has equipped us for future delivery of the topic ourselves. I also commend you and your colleagues for the intention of upgrading resources as necessary, instead of witnessing the birth of yet another dodo!"

"Leweston School have been using AET resources in our PSHE lessons for a number of years. They are extremely accessible; very little preparation is needed in advance of a lesson.  There are numerous age appropriate activities with clear progression.  Students enjoy the various activities and tasks. The supplementary short video clips add more interest, and reinforce the message of the lesson. I would highly recommend AET to all schools."

"AET provide invaluable INSET and informative presentations for parents struggling to find strategies to cope with their teenage children experimenting with alcohol."

“Eye-opening.”

“Well-delivered and easy to understand.”

“Really found the session useful and it will have impact on the lessons delivered.”

“My confidence in discussing alcohol has increased- I’m more aware of the importance of initiating conversation.”

“Finding out about units of alcohol and putting them into a real context was very useful. A clear and well-presented session.”

"Kathryn delivered training in our Local Authority to teaching staff, Early Hep Team and YMCA Youth Staff. The training and resources were great quality , the session was interactive and role modelled the delivery of the content in the resource packs."

"Feedback was positive from all who attended and I am aware that the resources have been used since in one to one, group work, classrooms and with families. Thanks you for your delivery."

“It is thanks to Karen and the AET that across all areas within Derbyshire we now have knowledgeable trained professionals, volunteers and community groups who are ready to engage and support young people and the wider communities with much needed and up to date resources that meet their needs."

"We feel the work of Karen and the AET team are doing is exceptional and much needed. We hope to link in with their offer in the future!"

“Helena gave a presentation on Talk about Alcohol to the UCL postgraduate students undertaking Health and Wellbeing Behaviour Change.  The students enjoyed learning about the evidence-based intervention and her presentation was dynamic and engaging.  Helena is an inspiring person who makes a positive impact both personally and professionally."

"Thanks for all your and Helena’s organising. It was a very successful evening – we had 45 in the audience and they were highly complimentary."

"Helena, Thank-you so much for last night…. Parents were very appreciative and I think we can build on this for the future…. Once again many thanks for an informative and useful talk."

"I was delighted with your presentation this evening, you made a very good impression on all the parents I spoke to. Furthermore, both Jo and I thought you had been of great service to the school, and we all learnt something new. Even though we are the ‘experts’, that could be applied to us too, thank you."

Helena Conibear has spoken to staff and parents about alcohol on three separate occasions in the past two academic years. We, and parents, have been so impressed with the quality of the information, advice and resources provided by the AET that we have already booked them in for the coming academic year.The talks are always well received as Helena has both a very relaxed yet confident presentation style and quite obviously knows the information and latest facts. This is especially clear in the question and answer part of her sessions where I have only seen calm and informed answers to whatever is thrown at her! Exceptionally helpfully for us, she is also very flexible and will adapt her presentations to suit our needs and requirements. I have also used many of the AET resources when planning the alcohol education module of our PSHE course as the AET’s vision for young people to enter adulthood having a healthy relationship with alcohol ensures that its resources engages pupils allowing them to build the necessary resilience from a position of informed choice

"Thank you for an informative evening with useful facts and tips."

"A brilliant video. Thank you for sharing. So enlightening and very well presented… very factual, unemotional and non-ideological, and lots of good content. Very impressed with it."

"Thank you once again for your superb presentation. I have received nothing but great feedback from parents."

"A fabulous resource, well put together and useable."

"The resources are extremely useful, they give us up-to-date accurate information and excellent ideas in a clear format. Thank you so much. Your hard work will enable us to have a positive impact on our young people’s lives. Currently we have used the SEN lesson plans from the back of the folder and the relevant resources as part of our Living Skills programme. Yr 10 students study the effects of drugs and alcohol, your resources have been a great help giving us clear focussed activities and specific, accurate information. We haven’t explored the interactive activities yet. So far we have only trialled this within the main school which mainly caters for students with learning difficulties. As the Trust expands we plan to also use it within our school which caters for students with autism and another with social, emotional and behaviour difficulties."

"This is going to be a really useful resource for years to come & will hopefully benefit young people in many different ways. They can say what is happening & will read different things into all parts. I hope it is going to make appositive difference. Thank you for the brilliant presentation & for providing this great pack."

"A engaging and interactive resource which supports a differentiated approach according to your age group. Highly recommended to support PSHE lessons and the Youth Health Champions program."