The New Press Club @ Earnscliffe Middle School: The Grade 6,7 and 8's Youth Symposium Trip!

On Wednesday, May 17th, 2016, the grade 6's, 7's and 8's took a trip to the Cineplex Cinemas near the Square One mall. We attended a youth symposium put together by Hope 24/7. We were one of the largest groups to attend the symposium. At the event, we were told about by-standing and bullying. We were also told real life scenarios that have actually happened to people. We met a 19 year women named Shayley who was assaulted by her own step-father at the age of 14 and we also met a bunch of other people who really inspired us to stand up and not be a bystander and just make us realize how we would feel if these kind of scenarios had happened to us or our family members. We also watched some music videos that other schools had made including Earnscliffe's video, How We Livin''. After a while, we had lunch. We enjoyed some pizza and chips while watching an episode of "Fresh Prince of Bel-air" on the big screen. After we were done eating, we continued with our talk about bullying and we also watched a video of famous actors like, author of "The Fault in our Stars", John Green, famous actress, Jamie Lee Curtis and many more talking about bullying and just giving us inspiration. We discussed different problems/questions that the audience had and we thought of ways we could also prevent bullying and shred them with everyone. We had a lot of fun, at some times times we laughed and at some times we just really thought about bullying and how serious it is. Overall it was a great trip and let's prevent bullying together! Check out their Youtube channel: Hope 24/7
Here are some pictures from the trip: