We all made this box and on the outside it explains what other
people saw in us during comp, and then on the inside we've
wrote down what they've missed.
I'm smart, I'm loyal, I like drawing.
One box doesn't fit all.
We want every young person who leaves secondary school to eat
their full potential, to rise to their ambitions, to be ready to
take flight on the next part of their journey.
There can be many obstacles on all paths.
In secondary school, I was always trying to fit in.
It can be easy to be blinded, not to see us as individuals,
but on my journey through secondary school, there were
places and faces that supported me.
Places I could go to where I felt safe.
A space to go when things get too much, a place to be able to
calm down or be able to talk to somebody who can help.
A chill room.
When I was in primary, they had a place to be and I used to go
there like every day.
If I got bullied or if something's happened that made
us feel sad and the teacher that was in there would help us.
So I think secondary schools should also have that because it
will help all the children to like process like a lot of their
failings in there.
So I think PSB will be a really good improvement of of schools.
There's a power in relationships with people you can trust.
Having somebody who knows you stole, who you can trust and who
is trained to support you.
My former tutor, Miss Warner, she was there for me through
everything.
When stuff was happening at home, she would be the one I
would talk to and she would sit me down and have a big massive
conversation about it, try and make me feel better and try and
make me say that even though stuff was going on, that they're
still good things.
And when people were seeing stuff and doing stuff, I would
be the one to go up to her and tell her, and she would sit me
down and talk to me.
And then she would either try and talk to the head of year or
try and talk to the students themselves.
I had a lot of support for my teachers when I had a difficult
time with my family.
If I'm down and if I need help there.
I was really upset at the time and this helped us through a lot
of stuff.
Yeah, it did change my life when I I could have somebody to talk
to.
It's so important regarding our support.
I never had a happy life.
Being in school with that happening made it harder to
communicate.
Always like felt alone in a hard time making friends, and they
never had help with that.
And I think that should be changed.
Someone like the social worker I worked with should always be in
school because they actually really helped and everything
officer so you can go to them for support for everything and
everything and everything Officer is somebody who can help
you with mental health support wise and help you through school
and help deal with somebody who's bullying you maybe or
picking on you could help you with things like you could just
be having a bad day and you could go speak to them.
Someone who you could go to trust and talk to about
anything.
Someone like that would help a lot of people and myself with
coping through school and with mental health of stress of exams
and things like that.
I think everyone should have a teacher like Miss Warner to talk
to.
I could leave lesson to go talk to her.
I was allowed to.
Even if she was in a lesson, she would still come out and talk to
us.
And I think every single student needs a teacher like that
because if not, then we're all just going to struggle.
And the more we're struggling, the more education gets down
instead of up through the roof.
Secondary school needs to be a place where we feel safe.
Where we feel secure.
A place where we keep each other safe in school and outside of
school.
A place where we feel empowered.
Safe to be who we are.
Empowered to share who we are with the world.
To do whatever our hearts desire.
In 20/21 I made two more songs.
Then when it got to year 11, I got a random bag that I owned
and decided to put speakers inside of it.
I teach myself how to build because no one teach me to do
that and no one teach me to make music.
And I think school should have clubs where you can make
whatever you want and be able to learn by main stuff that you
have ideas for.
There are more people out there like me who have hidden talent
and opportunities that people won't be able to see.
When people should see that they can do that.
And if the people right now having the opportunities to do
what they want, that's what makes them them.
And you can't take that away from them because that's how you
make a person and how they be happy by creating stuff,
thinking about stuff, drawing stuff.
I don't think one way of teaching works for everyone.
Every young person is different and learns in different ways.
Having choice and what I learn and how I learn.
So at the end of this journey, I've got everything I need to
help me on my next adventure.
To help me get off to the flying start so I can be who I really
am.
Look at what I can do.
Look at what we can do.
Together we can build a school that will work for everyone,
brick by brick, building on strong foundations.
Foundations that will help us spread our wings and get off to
a flying start in achieving our dreams and ambitions.
I'm going to be a mechanic.
I'm going to be a beautician.
I'm going to be a manga designer.
Yeah.