Local MP Tom Collins
Activity – Career Visit for Ks3 & 4
Numbers attending- 22 pupils
Aim of the activity
- Aspirational
- Raising awareness
- Benchmarks- 1,2,3, 4, 5, 6
Tom kindly gave up a morning of his time to visit the school and speak to the students about his
career as a politician. He spoke to them about his own mission for the beautiful city of Worcester,
why it’s important to him to keep it a safe and secure place to live. Tom spoke about this career and
how he became involved in supporting his local community and city as their local Member of
parliament. Tom spoke about his time working for a local business for many years and representing
the Worcester city council for the Rainbow hill ward.
Activity
All the pupils were excited about the visit as prior to the visit, pupils discussed what they would like to find out. They asked questions that mattered most to them and in relation to The House of Commons. They were excited to hear that our school got mentioned in the House of Commons, alongside this Tom spoke about what happens in parliament daily voting, bills, committees and challenging the work of Government. Tom continued to explain that an MP’s job isn’t written down he is there to speak for what he believes in and uses his superpower to help business, health, transport and education grow in society for the better.
Tom continued his tour of the school with Mr Enwright and talked about the crisis of support for SEND provision, he is looking forward in supporting the school with this in the future.
Questions from the students
When you spoke about transport, how do you fix it as its unreliable and expensive?
Can you get us a new school, we don’t have facilities we can use here e.g. no gym for
sports, no science lab, no food tech room?
Why are local colleges turning down students with ECHP for post 16 options?
Questions from teachers
As the Outdoor Education lead, we try and support the students with Duke of Education qualification, but the waterways are polluted and not accessible for use due to health and safety?
