Year 11 Chailey students deliver a lecture at Sussex University

Tuesday 24th March marked an important day for Chailey School. Jess Christie, our PPG co-ordinator, and Phoebe Caswell, Harry Jones and Katherine Meloy from Year 11, were invited to give a lecture at the University of Sussex, on the topic of ‘critically exploring how media outlets represent gender in an arts based program for children aged 15-16.’ Using our well established, active links with Higher Education, Chailey students demonstrated their confidence and well informed, academically grounded opinions and knowledge to articulate, not only to undergraduate students, but also post graduate students about how they consume mainstream media information and imagery, how this can be destructive to young people and why they feel it is important to address this issue in schools. The lecture lasted two and a half hours and was attended by around 40 people!  Ms Christie and the students received very positive feedback from those who attended the lecture - well done to everyone involved! Below is a photograph of two students in a video clip during the lecture.