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‘We are what we do’ workshop
A report by Sophie Berry 7BA and Susie Burley 7GT
 On the 22nd April five students from each Year 7 class, took part in a ‘We are what we do' workshop which helped us to get a better understanding of the relationships across generations and how we could improve them.
Firstly we looked at stereotypical old and young people. We were asked by Emma (one of the people talking to us) to draw our idea of these people. We were asked to draw what we thought an older person would think of young people. Although our drawings were individual they still had similarities. Most common was the fact that everyone seemed to draw trouble making teenagers. We believe that this is not the case for many of us, so it is our aim to help older people see children like us in a different light.
After that, we were separated into two groups and some of us were chosen to do a role play. The challenge was to characterise situations that young and old people have to face! Some of the stories were:
Eva Weber, 9, (played by Maisie Sellwood) who talked about cooking with her grandma and listening to some of the stories of her growing up. Nadia Ali, 64, (played by Sophie Berry) who had no close family and helped out a single mother of two who lived down her street. Kindly she helped with the shopping and babysat after school on some days! Another was Emily Williams, 79 (played by Susie Burley) – she was unlucky because she was only able to leave the house once a month when her daughter came over. This was because she lived in the remote countryside. We talked about many more examples.
After break we were split into five smaller groups and given some action cards. These included “spoil someone who spoils you”, “walk with your dad”, “teach your granny to text”, “read a child a story” and more. We put the cards into the piles of people we thought would be able to do the action – young people, older people or both. We shared ideas with the other groups and then we put the cards into order of how easy the actions would be to complete each day. Finally, we discussed which of the actions would be the most life changing!
Before we finished, we discussed a possible future campaign to run based on one of the actions we had discussed. As a group, we came up with many excellent ideas that we hope to put in place in the summer. Overall it was an interesting day and we have all come away with new information and inspiration. We hope that the summer project goes to plan and we are all very excited to get started!
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