Over the last 10 weeks, Ariel Trust have been working with a group of Year 8 students delivering a resource focusing on ‘skills for a healthy relationship’, looking at the issues arising from the sharing of online images.

Ariel Trust were so impressed with the students that they arranged for their performance to be filmed to be part of training sessions delivered to teachers in universities.

Last night parents attended and took part in an interactive workshop that had them up on their feet and playing drama games to start, before watching the students’ performance regarding healthy relationships. A workshop took the form of Forum Theatre which saw the parents pausing the action of the play and offering suggestions of what the character could do differently to result in a better outcome. There were even a few brave parents that stepped up to play characters such as a Mum responding to a daughter who had sent an indecent image. 

This was a really good way of exploring the topic for both parents and students. A few of the students have even been asked to voice over the characters for an animation Ariel Trust are producing for Merseyside schools!