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#128 Involve everyone
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Encourage one person to join "we are what we do"
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#038 Don't overfill your kettle
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#024 Put your gum in the bin
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#115 Teach your granny to text
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Bridge The Generation Gap event
On the 15th July 2010, Hampton Community College students welcomed 20 older people from 6 different care homes. The event ran from 1-5 and took a long time to set up and plan for. Jack, Sean, Keenan and Veeraj visited most care homes personally, in 2 cases even giving powerpoint presentations on the action "teach your granny to text".The event itself ran smoothly and both young and old people socialised together. History pin was not used due to some technical glitches, but it seems a good idea for the future.
We had a great number of students supporting with yours of the school, cake and drink sales, bingo, raffles, knitting and texting classes and a couple of very interesting interviews about past stories.
Overall, the event was a success and hopefully a stepping stone for future events in collaboration with We Are What We Do. All students were proud of their contributions and looking forward to more project. Sophie, Veeraj, Sean, Keenan and Jack got a big applause in the achievement assembly at the end of the year, together with a small filing cabinet and a project folder to get involved in future events. A final big thank goes to Nicole and Emma for launching the idea for this event with a thought-provoking workshop.
Every old person had a free plant as a thank you for visiting the school and the feedback given was superb. HCC students managed to raise 130 pounds during the event, 50% of which will go to Age UK, 50% will go to future community events.
‘We are what we do’ workshop, A report by Susie B and Sophie B.
On the 22nd April five students from each Year 7 class, took part in a ‘We are what we do' workshop which helped us to get a better understanding of the relationships across generations and how we could improve them.
Firstly we looked at stereotypical old and young people. We were asked by Emma (one of the people talking to us) to draw our idea of these people. We were asked to draw what we thought an older person would think of young people. Although our drawings were individual they still had similarities. Most common was the fact that everyone seemed to draw trouble making teenagers. We believe that this is not the case for many of us, so it is our aim to help older people see children like us in a different light.
After that, we were separated into two groups and some of us were chosen to do a role play. The challenge was to characterise situations that young and old people have to face! Some of the stories were:
Eva Weber, 9, (played by Maisie Sellwood) who talked about cooking with her grandma and listening to some of the stories of her growing up. Nadia Ali, 64, (played by Sophie Berry) who had no close family and helped out a single mother of two who lived down her street. Kindly she helped with the shopping and babysat after school on some days! Another was Emily Williams, 79 (played by Susie Burley) – she was unlucky because she was only able to leave the house once a month when her daughter came over. This was because she lived in the remote countryside. We talked about many more examples.
After break we were split into five smaller groups and given some action cards. These included “spoil someone who spoils you”, “walk with your dad”, “teach your granny to text”, “read a child a story” and more. We put the cards into the piles of people we thought would be able to do the action – young people, older people or both. We shared ideas with the other groups and then we put the cards into order of how easy the actions would be to complete each day. Finally, we discussed which of the actions would be the most life changing!
Before we finished, we discussed a possible future campaign to run based on one of the actions we had discussed. As a group, we came up with many excellent ideas that we hope to put in place in the summer. Overall it was an interesting day and we have all come away with new information and inspiration. We hope that the summer project goes to plan and we are all very excited to get started!
Session 1- Setting up ideas.
We have started our campaign on the 29/4, where we got all our ideas down for an integenerational event. We have set up the basics of the campaign. Our next step is to get more year 7s involved. Sophie, Daniel and Jack will give a short presentation to every tutor group on the 30/4.Our World Day at HCC
One World’ Cross Curricular Day - Year 7This exciting and informative cross curricular day began in the theatre with a film called Pay it Forward, which deals with the theme of goodwill and shows how one small positive individual action can change the world for the better.
Using themes from this film as a springboard, we spent the next three hours with different activities. We each cut out our own cardboard brick. On this brick, we wrote down an idea that would help change the world. Collectively, we made a brilliant ‘Wall of Change’ showcasing changes we’d like to make ourselves.
Following this, we discussed ideas in groups about how we could make a difference during tutor time, on the VLE and on the ‘We are what we do’ website. We all signed up to some of the important websites for this year, such as www.samlearning.com, www.hamptonlearning.com and the HCC VLE’s Discussion Zone for year 7. Three groups went on to present ideas to a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style panel (Mr Molin, Miss Stanbridge and Mrs Dyett)
Some of our ideas included:
• A club after school where students prepare for the ‘We are what we do’ website
• Making the school website more colourful and efficient with chat rooms
• Fun tutor activities and competitions
• ‘Kindness cards’ given out to peers who are nice
• Creating a fact file on a fellow year 7 student we hadn’t spoken to before
• Recycling bins in the corridors and canteen
• A “Kindness group” to monitor kindness within year 7.
We also had the opportunity to wrap presents for elderly people in the local community and for those in poorer countries around the world. This was fun and challenging because we had to cover the inside and the outside of the boxes. Some of us also wrote Christmas wishes to a Colombian school.
Lastly, we put some of our ideas about taking care of the environment into practice by litter picking in the local area.
Overall, we had lots of fun thinking of ‘One world’ and the changes we can each make in little steps.
Article collaboratively written by Stephanie Martin, Sean Chapman, Gomal Sritharrathasan, Keenan Atkins, Leanne Lock, Samuel Badgery, Jack Pannett, Veeraj Vadgama, Miss Stanbridge and Mr Molin.
Here are some thoughts on our day:
‘Today was all about making a change to our community’ – Maten Reimi
‘Today we learnt a lot about what we can do as a group, and as individuals’ - Sara Haro-Munoz.
‘I enjoyed today, the point of helping the world and making a difference would help people realise the actual fact of what we’re doing. We learned this by doing activities. We worked in groups and were asked questions and then we had to present it to the teachers’ - Samuel Badgery
‘I learnt good team work skills and I wish we had more days like this’ – Ryan Austin
‘It was fun when I went litter picking because we went outside’ – Henry Mintern
‘I enjoyed today because we were wrapping up food into boxes for people in need and we will send them to charity’ – Veeraj Vadgama
‘The film Pay it Forward was quite good. The teacher in the film was really funny and it would be fun to have a teacher that treated you like that’ – Stephanie Martin
‘I enjoyed today because I worked in group to wrap a present with my best friends’ – Leanne Lock
‘I enjoyed doing the Dragon’s Den in front of Mr Molin and Miss Stanbridge, also I enjoyed watching Pay it Forward’ –Charlie Booker
‘I have been researching the ‘World Kindness Movement’, which is a programme that is trying to help the world become a kinder place using countries coming together as one’ - Suzie Burley `
Wall of change
And anothe picture of the great work produced on Thursday.Our world day
Please check the HCC website early next week for a full report with pictures. Attached one picture of the Wall of Change we created on the day.VLE discussion zone
NEW ON VLE- Discussion Zone for year 7 students. Make sure your voice his heard and you offer your opinions, as these are invaluable.Encourage others to do the same. You will find the topics for debate if you click on "Year 7 Zone" and "Discussion Zone".