Barry Island Pupils Help Show Racism the Red Card

11 Sep 2015 | Cricket
Young people from Barry Island Primary School attended The SSE SWALEC to take part in the event for the day.
Education Workers Steve Jenkins delivered a workshop in the morning to the young people educating them on the topic of racism using interactive activities and discussions.

Pupils prior to attending the ground at school were set a task to prepare for the afternoon's anti-racism press conference.

Pupils had to create a newspaper name and were tasked with researching racism in sport and society. Pupils also were required to read newspapers and online blogs to explore how they are designed and written.

From the information they had learnt they had to prepare questions for the press conference at the event to help produce their article for their newspaper after the event.

In the afternoon pupils watched an educational DVD which gave them a last opportunity to obtain further knowledge on the topic before the question and answer session in our media / press conference event

Glamorgan player Ruaidhri Smith & former player and cricket coach Hanna Zaman attended the event to take part in the press conference joined by Steve Jenkins.

Pupils now in the role of newspaper journalists were selected to ask questions, introduce themselves and the newspaper they worked for followed by their question.

The journalists posed some really challenging questions for the players and had clearly researched and planned some well thought out questions.

The best asked question won a cricket t-shirt.

When the pupils return to school they will use all the information they had learnt at the event along with the responses from the players to write and design their article.

Show Racism the Red Card and Glamorgan CCC would like to the school for attending the event.

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