The Strand Primary Academy 20/05/22

20/05/2022

On Friday 20th of May, a small team of us carried out a ‘Your Choice Day’ at The Strand Primary Academy in Grimsby. The year 5 and 6 pupils took part in an exciting day of workshops, starting with a session on ‘The Law’ in Britain. This tackles issues such as peer pressure and respect towards the police. Other workshops included Online Safety, Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), Transitions (from primary school to secondary school) and Drugs. The students also took part in a Prison Life workshop where they had the opportunity to ask a number of questions on what prison is really like. Our team also brought along a ‘mock cell’ that the kids could look around themselves and experience the kind of conditions a prisoner would have to stay in! This was a particularly exciting and memorable point for them. Our team was accompanied by a couple of VIP guests (Rebecca Freeman and Victoria Henley from the North East Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership) who very kindly provided the funding for this particular Your Choice Day. Members of the police force and NSPCC also came to observe the day. Our team thoroughly enjoyed attending this school. The kids were absolutely fantastic and got stuck in to all of the workshops. We would like to say a big thank you to Debbie Norman and the staff at The Strand Primary School for taking care of us during our visit.