Barking Abbey Team Gets Super-Strategic!

With the support of four Citizenship teachers, the team at Barking Abbey now meet regularly on Mondays after school and have selected their key issue and idea to focus on: street safety and getting a more visible police presence on the streets.

Students and staff have established their core strategy to make this happen - by mapping community safety hotspots, reaching out and connecting to community allies, building their power together by researching which areas are most in need of a presence, developing their arguments and negotiating with the police to make it happen.



Students are busy creating surveys to begin this process next week.  They're a great team and are excited about building their power by reaching out to other year groups, parents and wider into the community.