The RAP Project came to King's Bruton to raise awareness about personal safety issues on and offline

The RAP Project came to King's Bruton to raise awareness about personal safety issues on and offline...

Allison Havey from The RAP Project spoke to the pupils this week. The RAP Project or Raising Awareness and Prevention Project, provides a variety of presentations to pre-teens, teenagers, young adults, teachers and parents to raise awareness about personal safety issues on and offline. www.therapproject.co.uk. Instagram: @rapprojectuk.

The 3^rd and 4^th Form had a very engaging talk titled ‘Altered, airbrushed and unrealistic’ which focused on body image, sexting and selfie obsession. Allison had a very impressive presentation style and her content was very relevant to what the pupils have learnt in their PSHEE lessons this year.

The 5^th Form did not have a talk due to public examinations, but the 6^th Form had a very informative talk titled ‘The Big Leap’ and educated pupils on rape culture, sexual harassment and pornography. Again, the content was very informative and extremely appropriate for all pupils. They also provided some very useful Acronyms which pupils can use in the future. Following the talk, pupils met up in their Joint House Tutor groups for this term (Arion and Blackford, Priory and New, Wellesley and Lyon) and watched some specially selected videos and discussed the idea of healthy and unhealthy relationships.

Emily Simper - Head of PSHEE

Pupils and staff said the following:                       

‘Allison Havey spoke really well, the talk was really good and we learnt a lot’ Arion 3^rd Form girls

‘I found out so much during the talk, and it will help me in the future.’  Harry, 4^th Form                  

‘The Presenter was very engaging, the content was very appropriate and I liked how she got everyone involved.’ Eliza, L6^th Form

‘I appreciated the efforts to warn the pupils of the dangers that lie in wait for them in their adventures in the future, a lot of it was the sort of advice that will come to mind further down the line and be invaluable’. Mr Thompson, L6^th Form Tutor

Useful Acronyms