Written by Ben Cowham Year 10 Work Experience
An awareness workshop started today and will run for the next three days, exclusively for students from Year 10.
This has been organised by Mr Robinson, Year 10 Progress Leader, who has arranged this activity for students who have not been able to secure work experience.
Students have been split into three groups. Each group will learn about and research three different themes – anti-bullying, racism prevention and mental health awareness in young people.
Over the next three days, each group will create posters, marketing materials and a television advert to promote awareness of their theme.
The activity started off with a visit by the former GB volleyball captain Ben Pipes.
He told everybody how he reached the status of captain in GB volleyball, and some of the difficulties concerning bullying, racism and Mental Health.
He told us how this affected him and what people should do to stop it.
After Ben Pipes finished his speech, the students were then split up into a total of nine groups, where they would begin to make research notes for the activity.
The staff running the awareness event told the pupils to start brainstorming, and then get some ideas for the campaign they will make to fight against bullying, racism and mental health discrimination.
Year 10 student Joe said, “I think that this is useful doing these activities as you can learn valuable knowledge.”
Whilst these activities were going on, they were also discussing what students could do to stop the crimes.
They told us how to report hate crimes, why stereotyping is bad for the society and how to recognise if somebody has a mental health illness.
The groups then watched documentaries so they could add to their research notes, so they could start their campaign.
Karl Turner MP will come in on Friday to judge the competition and decide an overall winner.