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Posted on November 30th 2023
Student Council Attend Neurodiversity Conference
Felix, Year 10, reports on the Student Council's visit to the Neurodiversity Conference, hosted by Southwark Schools Learning Partnership (SSLP)
For the academic year 2022-23 the theme for SSLP was sustainability, for which the Student Council created and launched the Sustainability Cooking Club. This academic year, the theme is neurodiversity – the different ways a person's brain processes information.
On Wednesday, we began by listening to speeches by Katie Barretta, the former SSLP leader who now leads Beyond Words, a charity which makes picture books for people who struggle to understand English, and other experts in neurodiversity.
Afterwards, the attendees were split into groups to work on our projects. After playing some team-building games, we got to work on planning our project, which will be a written word competition inspired by neurodiversity. We worked in sub-teams to finalise the details of our project, and we will be meeting again soon to complete the project and present it to the other schools.
By Felix, Year 10
What our student leaders said about the day...
Q: What was your favourite experience or moment of the event?
A: "When my group got to do team-bonding activities and planned the event.” - Nihar
Q: How did this event impact your perception of neurodiversity?
A: “This event made me more aware of the struggles of neurodivergent people in schools, because of the talks delivered by people who have experienced this.” - Felix
Q: What was your biggest takeaway from the event?
A: “The skills to form a project with other members, to group together with people I did not know and get to know them better, work with them and use their attributes and mine to contribute to the project.”
