Anti-racism awareness at Becket

This week the Double Club discussed racism in sport and in the wider community. They watched ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ DVD and listened to famous players talking about their attitudes towards racism, their experiences of it and examples. The group then had a ‘free talk’ about how they felt about the DVD’s content and Britain being a mulitcultural society. They then completed some literacy work, mind mapping suggestions for how to kick racism out of professional football, school, young people’s minds and amateur football.

In the ICT session, the students compiled presentations, factsheets, newsletters and posters about anti-racism. They had to include a famous player’s quote, think up their own sports-themed slogan and some information about anti-racism campaigns such as ‘Kick it Out’, ‘Stand up Speak up‘ and ‘Show Racism the Red Card’.

A few people reported back to the group about their book review homework. The previous week Beccy asked students to choose a sports book from the library and do a review on it.

Player/team anagrams and playing card maths served as ‘brain-breaks’. For more on the Double Club at Thomas Becket: http://double.northantsstudycentres.org/thomas-becket/