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Stand up, Speak out, Make a difference! Speakers' Corner
Our Speakers' Corner Events start this week at Allerton Primary School, followed by another five events across the District (see below). Host schools like Allerton, are those who volunteered to open their doors to other schools in the locality; pupils will perform and present their work to visiting pupils, who will also get an opportunity to showcase their own thoughts, ideas, opinions and work, inspired by the Kokeshi exhibition and Kokeshi: Stand up, Speak out, Make a difference teaching resource. These both encourage pupils to explore what they see as important now, today, to take responsibility and positive action to encourage change as active citizens. The Speakers’ Corner Events address the 'Every Child Matters’ directive to encourage pupil voice and aim to: · Help pupils to become successful learners, confident individuals and active citizens · Raise awareness of the importance of human rights · Reduce racism, prejudice and challenge stereotypes, by addressing hate crime and community tensions, locally, nationally and internationally · Provide focused, educationally valuable, interactive opportunities for people from a variety of ages, abilities, socio-economic, ethnic and religious backgrounds, to meet and work together and to form positive relationships · Design a sustainable peer education programme, that utilises modern technology, to meaningfully promote equality, diversity and community cohesion · Embed equality, diversity and community cohesion across the curriculum and throughout school life
At each event there will be a 'Cab-Cam' that will allow pupils to record their thoughts and ideas and the events will be supported by local artists and performers; Roger Davies, Junior Jam, the Big Hoo Ha, Tim Curtis, Imran Hafeez and Zubin. These artists will be performing and running workshops, having worked with children in their individual schools. Speakers' Corner Events are taking place on: 27th May - Allerton Primary School 16th June - Sandy Lane Primary School 21st June - Tong High School 23rd June - Cavendish Primary School 25th June - All Saints Primary School (Bradford) 2nd July - Ben Rhydding Primary School A total of thirty four schools (both secondary and primary) are involved and this is the maximum that we are able to accommodate this year. Look out for news about our District wide celebration event 10th July, 2010, Centenary Square, where some of this work will be showcased, all welcome to attend.
Photos taken at the Allerton event:
  Good News! Due to the overwhelming response from schools, we are currently exploring the possibility of running the peer education programme, Kokeshi Exhibition and the Speakers' Corner Events again in 2010/11. Did you know Bradford has a proud tradition of Speakers' Corners going back to the nineteenth century? Around 1893 the Bradford Speakers’ Stone was erected in Lister Park as a result of people being banned from speaking in Bradford City Centre on political and social issues. This was after strikes at Manningham Mills. These strikes led to the formation of the Independent Labour Party, here in Bradford (look out for the mural at the bottom of Leeds Road that commemorates this). In 1936 the Peace Pledge Union in Bradford, tried to hold an open air meeting against war at the ‘Speakers’ Stone’; the Council refused them permission to do so, but they went ahead, meeting at the park gates, marching to the stone and speaking for peace, not war.
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Comperes from Laisterdyke and Queensbury
Kokeshi Ambassadors on the Big Screen - Keelham