First Story helps the young people of Hull tell their stories in their own words

First Story Regional Programme Officer, Jessica Fear, shares with The Hull Hub why creative writing is such an important experience, and how hundreds of young writers across Hull have been harnessing its power to tell their stories. It is a truth widely observed that writing helps process and heal all kinds of trauma. Whether it’s bullying or the climate crisis, a fallout with friends, or the death of a loved one, getting your feelings down…

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Harry Smith – My Lockdown Poem

The year 2020 is very strangealong came Corona Virus and made everything change Stay in your homes, there isn’t any schoolno time to visit friends or family,it really isn’t cool. People watched the news with a frownMr Prime Minister put us on lockdown No parties, no parks, keep your distance apartpeople need to listen from the start Nurses, Doctors and all other Key Workers tooEvery week we clap and cheer for you. I hope this…

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Students learn cutting-edge tech skills to bring Veterans Village to life

Sixth Form students are using state-of-the-art technology skills to help create a visual walkthrough of the world’s first purpose-built centre of its kind for veterans.Year 12 engineering students from Ron Dearing University Technology College (UTC) in Hull are learning how to use Autodesk Revit 3D building information modelling (BIM) software, used by leading architects, to assist in the creation of a virtual reality tour of the Hull 4 Heroes Veterans Village.The Veterans Village is championed…

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Rise Above

I thought I would just talk about a topic that effects all of us in whatever way. And that is bullying this can happen in several different ways whether it is physical, mentally, or over the internet. Bullying is wrong in every way shape or form if we keep things bottled up inside of us nothing will be resoleved this is why I spoke out about my story. In my first year of school this…

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Winning Lifestyle team visit South Africa

Three girls from Crowle are currently enjoying the holiday of a lifetime in South Africa as a reward for their hard work last summer spreading positivity and raising money to create safe places for young people.  Georgina Healer, Faith Singh and Mia Singh formed team The Magical 3 and dedicated their summer holidays to completing a project for our Lifestyle initiative. Their efforts were commended at our awards ceremony in November last year where the…

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Hull Collegiate Pupil wins all-expenses trip to Google HQ in California in coding competition

A 16 year old from Hull Collegiate School beat more than 3,500 students in a coding competition to win a trip to Google’s headquarters in California. Josh, a Year 11 pupil at Hull Collegiate School, Anlaby, was announced as one of the winners in Google’s annual Code-In competition. A total of 3,566 students from 76 countries took part in the competition, with 20,840 tasks being completed with 29 open source organisations.   Josh chose to participate…

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Ron Dearing UTC named among England’s best schools for A-level progress

Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC) has been named as one of the best schools in the country for the progress made by A-level students. New league tables released by the Department for Education show Hull’s employer-led school is ranked 15th of all schools and colleges in England, including fee-paying independent schools, for the progress made by students who took their A-levels last summer. Excluding independent schools, Ron Dearing UTC is ranked as the 6th best for…

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Shortlist for James Reckitt Hull Children’s Book Award 2020 is announced

The shortlist has been announced for the James Reckitt Hull Children’s Book Award 2020. The shortlist features the must-read children’s books for 2020, with the winner chosen by Hull’s young people. The award, which began 13 years ago, aims to foster a love of reading by introducing young people to new writers and titles they might not normally pick up. Providing inspiration to parents, teachers and children, a delivery of these titles will be distributed…

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Castle Hill nurse Justin shares experience of refugee camp with school children

A man who spent seven years in a refugee camp before becoming a nurse at Castle Hill Hospital has shared his experience with children from an East Yorkshire primary school. Justin Mwange fled to Zambia with his family from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo and spent seven years living without hope before he was granted refugee status and moved to Hull. Now, after qualifying as a nurse this summer and joining Hull University Teaching…

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Give Young People Their Chance to Dance!

Students who attend East Yorkshire schools and youth groups have an exciting opportunity to showcase their creativity through dance thanks to an upcoming competition. Chance to Dance is a new performance challenge scheduled for Spring 2020, brought to the region by local businesses Drunk Animal Creative Studio and National Events Support. The aim of the competition is to celebrate student participation in performing arts whilst creating inspiring productions.The event has been designed through consultation with…

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