In recognition of Anti-bullying Week and Children in Need THS year 11 Ambassadors successfully planned and co-ordinated a week that the whole school community will remember for years to come.
Not content with just the usual non-uniform day the Ambassador team, with the assistance from the Anti-bullying Ambassadors planned a week of activities and events to highlight the importance of respect and showing kindness. Staff and students competed against each other in a hard fought benchball tournament and came to school in odd socks on Tuesday.
Wednesday saw a staff sumo wrestling competition watched on by a vast majority of the school community and on Thursday students and staff fielded teams for the Big Quiz. Students heard from the Anti-bullying Ambassadors in their assemblies and also had a special assembly about RESPECT from John Gayle who gave them an insight into his life as a young person and the people who helped him learn respect and who supported him.
All week students ran a mile in their PE lessons with the aim of running the number of miles to get to Kenya and on Friday the week concluded with a 12-hour cycle event. The Ambassador team and other staff and student representatives kept 8 bikes moving for the whole 12 hours only changing seats to hand over to someone else. During the day members of the wider community including representatives from Rotary, Tiverton Town Council and the Tiverton Town Twinning Association visited to lend their support and their legs! The aim – to cycle the miles to Tiverton’s twin towns of Chinon and Hofheim. Later in the day local MP Rachel Gilmour called in to lend her support to the cycle challenge.
A combination of physical activity and fun, fundraising events has allowed the school to raise over £1700 which will go to Anti-bullying charities and Children In Need.