AWS Students Scoop Top Awards At Show Racism The Red Card Event
We are delighted to share with the school community that two Allestree Woodlands School students were honoured at a ceremony held at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium on Tuesday 10th May, after being announced as the winning entrants in the Show Racism the Red Card competition for 2022.
The Show Racism the Red Card School Competition has been running for 23 years and has become the biggest equalities competition in the UK with over 25,000 entrants taking part this year.
The Competition is free to enter for all young people of school age and divided into artwork, creative writing and multimedia categories, allowing entrants taking part to express their anti-racist messages in a variety of creative formats.
Winning entrants were invited to the first in person Awards Ceremony, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, where the order of the winners in each category was announced and they received their prizes. Special guests were Rachel Yankey, Perry Groves, Paul Davis and Monty Panesar.
Ava Norris and Kiera Meffen, both 14, entered this year’s competition following a whole school initiative in PHSE lessons, spurred by the school’s Diversity group who are led by Design and Technology teacher Ms Ainsworth.
Ava was announced the 3rd place winner of the T-shirt design competition and Kiera the overall winner of the Year 7-9 Artwork Category.
Both girls travelled to London with their families on Tuesday and were also joined by Mr Ward (Kiera’s form tutor) as a representative from the school. Both arrived in the capital early and had the chance to explore a little before attending the ceremony.
Mrs Penny, commented ‘We are very proud of all of the students in the school who entered this competition, as it truly resonates with our CORE values of Courage, Optimism, Regard and Endeavour. It was an even prouder moment for the girls, their parents and for us as a school, to have Ava and Kiera be recognised as winners in their respective categories – what an honour and a time for them that will remain with them always’.
A huge congratulations to Kiera and Ava!