Such is the importance of celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD), the young women of the Girls’ Model decided to make it a week! Kick started with an assembly coordinated by Olivia Greer, past student and Practitioner from the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust’s Wellbeing Team in Schools, our Post-16 students delivered strong messages supporting IWD and encouraging all students to build each other up, embrace the challenges that being a woman can bring and live life with courage and drive. 

Other activities during the week included lunchtime drop-ins by the Shankill Women’s Centre, RCity’s SHE project and Streetbeat, student’s creating flowers bearing the names of the women they find most inspiring along with life quotes for a display in the foyer, and a charity collection for Women’s Aid where students could donate and receive a purple ribbon which is the official colour of IWD, symbolising justice, dignity, loyalty to women’s causes.

Well done to Addisyn and Olivia who put together the activities and coordinated the events, the entire Post-16 team who helped make the week enjoyable and to our students who embraced all activities like the strong and inspirational women they are growing up to be. 

Ms Campbell