What Schools Say
From educators and community partners to organisations and supporters, these testimonials share personal experiences and reflections on how our programmes inspire change and make a difference.
Great day – excellent presenters. The three workshops were well received, and the students were engaged throughout. There were some very honest talks / questions and answers and some emotive experiences shared. The students were impressed by the young performers and appreciated their honesty and openness. My only thought on improvement would be to make the sessions as interactive as possible – these particular students are all students who learn by doing! Thank you for an inspirational day – I look forward to sending you their feedback!
Amanda Sheer (Personal Tutor, Student Support at K-College)
Thank you for coming this morning. We all enjoyed your talk immensely. My colleague says the applause was pupil led! Very interesting workshop, thought provoking for the students. One pupil was concerned about the violence, another by the discussion of alcohol. One concern of mine was the mention of the things prisoners do to make weapons from razors as many of our young people are self-harmers. However, overall, the talk was very relevant to the age group of pupils we have. It would have been good to have a female here to give a perspective of life in a woman’s prison. Overall, thank you – a great workshop. I will write a report to our Head teacher and hopefully we will see you again in the future.
Elaine Sear (Teacher at Oakfield Education Unit, Staplehurst)
Thank you so much for your hard work Francis and effort today with the Year 7 students – they all gave really positive feedback! Thank you for giving up your time I honestly believe the students really did learn something today and this is because the sessions were well thought out and lively! Thank you once again and I will contact you later in the year regarding booking you for next academic year!
Mrs H. Page (Senior House Leader at The Abbey School, Faversham)
Francis presented a powerful presentation on how everyone has a choice. His ambition and drive to reach 10,000 children is something we would like to help with. Rosie/Joseph (Break The Mould) also gave an interesting presentation and the in-house sessions are something than can clearly be used within Kent. The talk by Chizumie gave another view on how you can turn your lives around “where there is live there is hope!” Well done all. Hopefully working with you.
Sgt. Ashley Boxall (Offender Management, Kent Police)
Thank you so much, we really enjoyed and learnt so much today. As a youth worker we work so hard to try and keep our young people on a level path. I hope that I will be able to introduce you to our youth centres and secondary schools as I really feel it would benefit them
Year 6 Teaching Assistant at Archbishop Courtenay Primary School
Great communication with children – all engaged and responsive. Good interaction and atmosphere in classroom, positive delivery of objectives and aims. Thank you! Learning opportunities – good pointers for transition to secondary school and ideas for further learning in P.S.H.E. We would welcome the opportunity to work with RRR in the future. Many thanks!
Jayne Bindra (Year 6 Class Teacher, Bean Primary School)
Dear Francis, THANK YOU the students thought that you was ‘awesome’. I have already started to spread the word locally so expect some calls. Feedback forms in the post have an enjoyable Easter. Look forward to meeting you soon.
Sue Barnes (Teacher at The Willows Pru, Canterbury)
Thanks for this afternoon, you did a brilliant job and the kids really engaged. It has opened my eyes as well and made me weep as I have a son who went to prison and to now know and understand what he went through. It was Brilliant thank you.
Tracey Vinton (Project Manager at Adolescent Resource Centre, Tonbridge)
I echo the comments about too much focus on gang culture but most of what was discussed would be relevant to Kent/local schools. I feel this can be extremely useful with more focus on lower level of crime as well: ASB/theft/drugs outside of the inner city environment.
PC John Brooker (Schools Liaison/Education Tonbridge and Malling, Kent Police)