key_stages: Key Stage 4 (Age 14-16)
Fashion It Your Way – The London College of Fashion’s resident chaplain presents the highs and lows of the fashion industry and its impact on young people. Her key message is that fashion is a great way to express one’s individuality and should be about discovering who you are in a creative and fun way.
I’m A Model, Get Me Out Of Here – A former young model reveals her experience of modelling from an early age. Initially taken in by the glamour, she soon discovered the reality was quite different. She left every modelling session feeling low and it soon began to cause lasting damage to her self-esteem.
Beauty Vs Intelligence? – A dramatised debate on whether beauty or intelligence has greater value, not only to individuals but to society. If you had to pick between them, which one would you choose and why? Does intelligence last longer than beauty and is beauty worthless if you don’t have a brain?
Letarnia’s View – Letarnia grew up on the estate where now she works as a youth worker. She says that knife crimes are a real aspect of life in London’s estates, but that this outshines much of the good work that young people on these estates are also doing to better themselves, and their communities.
No Sex Before Marriage – A young Christian discusses his commitment to abstain from sex until he’s married. He reveals the attitudes of his friends towards his decision as well as his concern that too many young people give in to peer pressure. For him, undertaking the challenge of chastity involves setting up some clear boundaries.
Live Or Die – Experts on capital punishment around the world talk about the history of the death penalty and the various methods of execution available from lethal injection to stoning. They also reveal which countries have the highest execution rates, the cost of state-sanctioned killing and whether it works as a deterrent.
