The Trust Youth team travelled to Birmingham last week to meet our two teams in the West Midlands, Redhill School in Dudley and Willingsworth High School down the road in Sandwell.
Navigating the inner-city rail network was a bit of a challenge, but we managed to reach Redhill in time for our lunchtime visit. Chief Executive Officer Siân and her team of Year 10s have been busy working away on their Trust Youth project since the training two months ago. Having had loads of different and innovative ideas, from treasure hunts to hugathons, they settled on a couple of exciting events – we won’t spoil it for you as the team are, as we speak, busy penning a blog posting which we hope to put up in the near future. A big thanks to Miss Rudd and the team for their friendliness and hard work raising funds and awareness for the British Red Cross!
A couple of hours later we were entering Willingsworth High to meet Miss Kinley’s new Trust Youth team of Year 9s. The initial ice-breaker of ‘who would you like to be stuck in a lift with’ was met with strikingly similar answers – the girls stuck for footballers Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard, while boys preferred the charms of Jordan. No-one plumped for the safest option: a lift technician. Trust Youth’s co-Director, John, came and put on a leadership exercise to see which team could build the biggest tower. At admirable speed, both teams did very well. We’re looking forward to seeing what the team can do!
Both teams will come together in a prestigious West Midlands Celebration event in September. We’ll keep you posted as to how it goes.
Monday, 2 July 2007
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