Your World Your Say Schools Conference

On Monday 29th March we attended the Your world Your Say schools conference at BAWA in South Gloucestershire. The event was attended by lots of organisations with the aim of empowering year 8 students to discuss local and global issues and take action in their own schools. We ran 4 half hour workshops in the morning with 50 students from schools all over Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.

We had two new volunteers supporting the activities, Izzy and Huria and hopefully they’ll be working with us on more projects over the next few months. We ran the UNITY Flag and First Impressions activities which went down really well with students and teachers alike and we hope to have made some new links for project work with other schools in the future.

Here’s what the students learnt and enjoyed:

'You can't judge people by the way they look.'

'Don't judge a book by it's cover'

 'Everyone's different'

'I learnt about not judging people and giving people chances.'

'Very interactive'

'It helped me to think about myself'

'It was brilliant and I would love to do it again!'

What the teachers thought:

'There's a lot about my students I teach that I nevet get chance to ask/ know about.'

'Very good. Proof of the difficulties with identity.' 

'Friendly and interactive session.'

'Great workshop!'

What our peer educators thought:

"The session went great, I really enjoyed myself. The young people were really enjoyable to work with and Ina and Steph were really great." - Izzy, 17

"I learnt a lot of stuff during the session and enjoyed myself a lot." - Huria, 19