On Wednesday March 8^th we once again marked International Women’s Day at TBSHS.

Students were invited to wear ONE item of clothing in a different and bright colour, with their normal school uniform.

There was no charge for this awareness day, but we held a bucket collection and cookie sale for Red Kite, a local charity.

Manchester City Football Club have lunched a new kit to mark International Women’s Day and pay tribute to the Suffragettes and Emmeline Pankhurst. Manchester-born   Pankhurst helped found the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903, which called for the right for women to vote. The shirt is in the WSPU colours of green, white and purple and celebrates Pankhurst’s “Manchester roots and overriding vision for female equality”. City said it also celebrates “girls and women in football in Manchester”. The men’s team will wear the shirt in the warm-up and walkout at Saturday’s Premier League home game against Newcastle. The women will wear the kit for their Women’s Super League fixture against Tottenham at the City Academy Stadium on Sunday.

By the end of the day students had raised £145.55 for  “Red Kite” a Bishop’s Stortford charity helping victims of rape and sexual abuse and “Book Aid”  – £143. 47 on  Friday  by selling cakes made for Book Week.