Client

Safer Somerset Partnership / Somerset Violence Reduction Unit

When

Autumn and Winter 2019/20

Core Topics

• Online and personal safety (primary schools)
• Knife crime and county lines (secondary schools)

Brief

To engage students in primary and secondary schools across Somerset on the core topics and encourage the dissemination of key messages on the core topics to the wider Somerset population.

Our solution

• Prepare a comprehensive set of teaching resources to aid student understanding of the four core topics
• Provide a structure whereby students can express their views on the core topics by creating podcasts and YouTube videos
• Recruit and encourage teachers in Somerset schools to participate in the project
• Deliver 16 workshops, rich in video and audio content, during which the students heard the experience of perpetrators, victims and family members
• Operate a competition, culminating in a public poll whereby peers, friends, family and the wider population can watch, listen to and vote for their favorite podcast or video.

They said

“It is great to see an initiative tackling issues head on, in an attempt to be proactive rather than reactive.”

Andy Ellett, Assistant Headteacher, Selwood Academy, Frome

“A really well-run workshop, lots of information and opportunities for students to engage.  The students have really enjoyed it and will use the information to teach others.”

Alice Parry, Head of Year 9, Stanchester Academy, Stoke-sub-Hamdon

“Fantastic all round – thank you so much.  I plan to use the teaching resources to create a scheme of work in order that additional students across the year group can learn about knife crime and county lines.”

Sarah Westwood, DSL, Court Fields School, Wellington

“Thank you for being so patient with our boys.  A really powerful message shared with some of our most vulnerable students.”

Kayleigh Fisher, Drama Teacher, Robert Blake Science College, Bridgwater

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