7 SRS students took part in the Young People’s Conference, on 5th October at Barking and Dagenham College, 9.30am to 12.30pm.

Students worked alongside other Primary and Secondary school students in the borough to discuss:

• What is culture?
• How can we access culture?
• What blockages do they feel are preventing young people to access culture?

Students worked towards a Quality Standard by, with and for young people. Creative exercises to generate a quality matrix to enable CYP to assess quality of experience, participation, content, context, venue, marketing and production values of an arts and cultural experience.

It was a fantastic event where students were able to use the ‘Voice’ to communicate how the borough and school can improve and enable students to succeed in an ever changing future.