What are you thankful for today?
Leave us a comment and let us know what you are thankful for today! Remember it could be something simple like watching a new t.v show or getting to sit outside in your garden. Whatever it is, we want to know.
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HEROES Project goes ONLINE!
Hello and welcome to the first post of HEROES Project ONLINE! As we're all having to work and attend school or projects from home now we thought we'd use this space to share some ideas of activities for you to keep busy with and keep your minds active, healthy and happy. We're hoping to get our HEROES Project Facebook page up and running really soon too, for us to connect and get a part of the HEROES experience through our screens. STAY TUNED, we'll be posting some activities and challenges for you all to get involved in very soon. Be sure to let us know if you've been taking part in any activities by leaving us a comment!
Rights and Responsibilities
Following on from last weeks session, today we explored rights and responsibilities that we have. We watched some videos that explained what rights are and showed us some rights that we have. We then had some discussions to see if we knew more from watching the videos and challenged ourselves to match responsibilities to their rights. Our final activity to tie everything together was a Kahoot quiz which was delivered by quiz master Conal who did an excellent job reading out the questions and telling us who was in the lead!
International Women's Day
Sunday was International Women's day, so this week the group learnt about some important women in history and looked at some gender stereotypes we might have. We watched some videos about the Suffragettes, a group of women for fought for women's right to vote, and did some quizzes to see if were paying attention. On Wednesdays session we ran a little Social experiment to challenge gender stereotypes. The young people were split into pairs and each person was given a task to complete. The twist was that one person would be doing a typical mans task and one a typical wome n's task. To decide who did which task they played rock paper scissors with the winner automatically getting the mans task. Some of the mans tasks included relaxing, working out and having a servant. Women's tasks mainly revolved around looking after a baby and doing chores such as cleaning and washing dishes. This experiment challenged the young people to think about stereotypes they mig...