Pupils Discuss Community Issues

Tuesday, 3rd February 2009

Dozens of students from four local schools came together last week to discuss and debate important community issues.

Fourteen and 15 year-old year ten pupils from Immanuel College, Nower Hill and Guru Nanak school met with contemporaries at Watford Grammar School for Boys on Thursday.

During a series of seminars and team-building activities the pupils discussed ethnic differences, religious harmony and community cohesion.

The event was organised by Shared Futures, an educational project founded in 2007 to promote interfaith respect and understanding, and teen advice group Streetwise.

All hand-picked participants were later awarded fellowships of the Alan Senitt Memorial Trust ? founded in memory of a former Nower Hill pupil murdered in Washington DC.

Project Coordinator Susan Moss said: ?The conference was the first of many activities which will help us develop future leaders.

?Our aim is to enable meaningful contact between these young people, helping to break down stereotypes and prejudice for the benefit of all communities.?

Source: Watford Observer, 28th Jan 09