This week saw students take over at BISB! The focus of the week has been marking World Children’s Day – a day that recognises and celebrates Children’s Rights and promotes youth voice in creating a better world for every child. Our Year 13 student leaders did a fantastic job leading workshops for their younger peers on the Sustainable Development Goals and encouraged them to speak up to use their rights for the empowerment of others.
Thursday’s Wear Blue Day was a show of solidarity in support of Children’s Rights and the work that UNICEF does locally and globally to protect them. The end of the week saw Years 7 and 8 deliver persuasive advocacy speeches on how we could move our work on the SDGs forwards as a school whilst Years 9-13 went head-to-head in heated debates on the same topic. Year 11, meanwhile, have been working on promoting awareness and understanding of Children’s Rights through their Service-learning action week, which included leading workshops for Year 3, launching a ‘For The Children’ anthology to celebrate students creative work, a donation drive of books, clothes, and hygiene products for Huvosvolgy children’s home, and a student-led assembly on peer empowerment. Overall, the week has been a display of student empowerment and a celebration of children’s rights as the cornerstone of education.
Rachel Rhodes
English Teacher, Social Impact Lead and CAS Coordinator
NAE-UNICEF Social Impact Regional Lead Europe
Last week, Year 6 performed our wonderful musical production for the parents and younger children in school. It was a play called Troy Story - it was about the Greeks and Trojans who were at war and had lots of drama.
As the academic year draws to a close, our Early Years students marked the occasion in the most joyful way possible, with Splash Day, a much-loved BISB tradition that brings together sunshine, water play, and the simple delight of being a child.
