Students find their voice in Warwickshire
Students from all over Warwickshire are preparing to arrange a host of countywide activities to entertain and stimulate their peers.
They are learning how to plan and organise events at a Student Fellowship day being organised by Warwickshire County Council.
The pupils from years 9 and 10 have been arranging after school activities, lunch clubs and anti-bullying campaigns at their school for a year as part of the peer tutor scheme, which runs through the University of the First Age initiative.
Now they are setting their sites more broadly, and are looking at preparing sessions that aren’t restricted to pupils at a particular school.
One planned event is a dance and film summer school, while they are also devising a journey through space for pupils in year 6 and 7 at the National Space Centre in Leicester. Some students are also learning how to devise websites.
The Student Fellowship day is bringing together more than 100 students from seven schools with experts from different artistic backgrounds to help them develop these skills.
The schools taking part are: Rugby High School and Harris School; Nicholas Chamberlaine Technology College, Ash Green School and Hartshill School; Myton School and North Leamington Community School and Arts College.
Organiser Ray Speakman said: “Their enthusiasm is huge, they have fantastic imagination and they want to help their peers and those in younger age groups have new experiences that are stimulating and fun. The role of the adults on the day is to channel that creativity and give them the tools to arrange events in the way that they want. This scheme has two great outcomes: it is giving teenagers the chance to take responsibility for their own actions and it is providing something for their peers to enjoy.”