Sarah-Louise and I visited Dunning Primary School, Auchterarder. This was a whole school meeting with local primary schools also in attendance – at least 200 in attendance as well as senior Perth and Kinross education representatives. It was well covered by local press photographers. We toured the school and the whole event was covered by Media Education recording the responses to the visit.
We then all went onto Auchterarder Community School, where we spoke to P6 and P7 pupils – about 50 in total. The teachers involved had not heard of a RIGHT blether before, but were enthused by the response of the pupils and are committed to making it happen for the school, at least the primary section – this was also covered by Media Education filming.
I attended a play about young carers – The Monster in the Hall –this was excellent and got me thinking about the potential for the Young carers Festival – I have already contact Louise Morgan of the Scottish Young Carers Alliance on this.