Session 13 - Planning The Overall Structure Of Our Workshops - 8/2/12

We discussed what we will need and want to take into schools for our workshops.

We agreed that we wanted to use the postcards from the launch to hand out after our workshops to offer both information and a reminder of links to our campaign. We will have the Twitter and Facebook details added onto them and make a few text amendments before getting them re-printed.

We discussed that wanted to add an extra feature to our website - an order form for both the workshop and the posters.

We added some more details to our distribution chart of posters that we had handed out over the last few weeks.

We decided that it would be well worth us re-sending Boris Johnson another letter with a copy of our poster included so that he may pay attention to it this time around.

Things that we may take with us to the workshops in the future are:
- A PowerPoint presentation
- Postcards to hand out at the end

We all fed back on the workshop that we did at Acland Burghley School:
- It went really well, we got feedback and gave them an idea on how to build their campaign
- We learnt how to interact with students and other young people#
- Don't leave too many posters next time
- Young people work better in smaller groups

We discussed what we wanted to go into our workshops this time around. As we would be talking about our project rather than our previous workshop about campaigning, we had to plan out the workshop more about our campaign and poster.

- 1 hour sessions
- If we have extra time then we will show Pressure 1 and tell them to go to the website to watch Pressure 2
- We will show them pictures of stab wounds
- Talk about Joint Enterprise
- Turning Point is awkward so it would be easier to have paper feedback forms.

We finished up the session feeling a lot more prepared for our workshops. We will run our workshop for Katy Dawe in the next session, who we can get feedback from and advice on how we can make it better.

Running Our First Workshop For Year 11s At Acland Burghley School - 2/2/12

Today we ran a workshop on 'how to create a campaign' for year 11s at Acland Burghley school. They are currently working on creating their own campaign and wanted to find out about how we created ours.

We used our plan for our last session to set out the workshop:
1. Introductions and our story
2. Show the poster
3. The steps we took to create the poster
4. Poster feedback and questions
5. Group activity - create an idea for a campaign - what is your campaign? what is your message? how will you promote your campaign?
6. Questions and answers
7. Finish up and feedback

Overall we felt that the workshop went really well and the feedback was generally positive. It was brilliant that we could help others to create their own campaign, with our experiences and knowledge.

Session 12 - Preparing For Our First Workshop In A School - 01/02/12

We started off the session with a guy called Michael talking to us about how to use the 'Turning Point' Tool. The tool will enable us to get feedback through audience interaction, pressing a button to choose their answer to the questions that we will ask them.

There are two ways that you can use the tool, these are through Powerpoint or Turning key.



We all agreed that we did not want to use the Turning Point tool in our first workshop as we needed a bit more practice using it first.

We have a workshop booked in for 2/2/12 (tomorrow) with the year 11s at Acland Burghley School. We agreed who was available to run the workshop: Sayem, Inaj and Kaium.  The session will be for an hour so we started work on planning it.

What do we need to bring to the workshop?
- Posters (2A2s, 4A4s and 3A3s - Andrew and Rujina to bring along)
- Questionnaires (16 - Lajaune)
- A laptop

(We had an idea that we may want to have some wrist bands made up to hand out at our workshops, but we have agreed to wait and see how we get on a a few first of all.)

What will the structure of our workshop be?
- Introduction
- a bit about us and the campaign
- Show the poster
- Feedback, questions and answers on the poster

- Group activity - The main topic will be knife crime - What would you do as a campaign? What websites would you use to promote your campaign? How would you get your message across?

- The purpose of a campaign - a planned effort to make change and a method to get your message across
- Finish - Questions, answers and feedback

The main purpose of the workshop:
- How to make/create a campaign
- Raise awareness of our campaign

Everyone left the session feeling a lot more confident about running the workshop tomorrow. Good luck everybody!