KS5 The Orwell Youth Prize

Students in Year 12 participated in The Orwell Youth Prize this term. The Foundation provides workshops in schools for students in KS4 and KS5. The workshop involves using an Orwell text as a vehicle from which young people may develop views and test arguments based on their own experience and observation. This year’s theme was ‘Who is in Control?’.

Our student were given the chance to explore, discuss and debate issues of the day, deepening their engagement with matters of social justice; they read the work of Orwell and a contemporary writer (Orwell Prize-winning novelist, biographer, broadcaster and academic Dee Jarrett-Macauley) as inspiration and role model; they asked Dee about how to get heard today. Congratulations to the following students who were involved: Vanessa, Annabelle, Pippa, Nedas, Alexander and Jodie.