What We Do
Our 90-minute ‘I Didn’t Know That! ‘transition’ workshops - one FREE per venue - are delivered by Francis to Year 5 and 6 students in Kent primary schools. We also offer anticrime, early intervention workshops that are ideal for all secondary school years groups and colleges. Additional workshops can be delivered by arrangement for a fee.
Primary Schools
In primary schools, we prepare Years 5 and 6 for the opportunities and challenges they may face in ‘transitioning’ from primary to secondary school. Based on the ‘lived experience’ of Francis, RRR CEO’s, wrong choices of ‘friends’ and disastrous personal decisions in his younger years, which led him to serving 9 years of his late teens and twenties in prison, he takes students through his ‘playground to prison pathway’ from college to prison.
Years 5 and 6 constantly cite two main concerns they have about ‘transitioning’ to ‘big school’ - making new friends and being bullied. Francis teaches them how to make the right new friends and how to stop being bullied as soon as it starts. Please see ‘Buddy Scheme’ below.
'Buddy Scheme' - In Year 6, as soon as you know which secondary school you are going to, call your new school or check out their school website to find out if they operate a 'Buddy Scheme'. This is where your new secondary school will 'buddy you' with a Year 8 student who has settled in well, is popular with students and liked by teachers and will guide you through your first year in secondary school, helping you to make the right choices and decisions and with any other problems you might have. If your new secondary school doesn't operate a 'Buddy Scheme', ask your new teachers if they might consider setting one up. It's very easy to do.
Secondary Schools and Colleges
In secondary schools and colleges, Francis takes a harder hitting approach to crime since it is likely that SOME of the students may already have become involved in gangs, petty crime, weapon-carrying and drugs, having been approached by ‘County Lines’ gang members, who regularly frequent both primary, but mainly, secondary schools as their preferred hunting grounds for new recruits. Francis outlines, in considerable detail, how to both avoid and reject these unwanted ‘County Lines’ approaches.
