It’s Marvell-Us Yellow!

Andrew Marvell College has designated their next Big Learning Day on Tuesday 7th February 2012 as a ‘Yellow Day’ in support of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Daffodil Challenge. It is hoped that as many as possible, both students and staff, will make the day as ‘yellow’ as possible through personal clothing and varied ‘Big Learning’ activities.

Year 8 & 11 will be joining together specifically to produce a range of daffodil themed products such as badges, bath bombs, painted glass jars, flower vases, and music and drama DVD’s to raise awareness and money with regard to the  active citizenship project.

Big Learning Day Coordinator and Head of PSHEE, Citizenship and Religious Education Mark Parker-Randall said, “Cancer can be a terrible thing for many, striking fear and anxiety into any heart, mind and spirit. As a nurse I used to work in Oncology and have held many a patients hand as they have breathed their last breath. As a minister of religion I have had a great deal of experience coming alongside the dying and bereaved.  Cancer doesn’t care if you are young or old, rich or poor, black or white, fat or thin, straight or gay, male or female, it can attack anyone, at any time, in any place. However, at Andrew Marvell College we do care, and through our pro-active teaching and learning Big Learning Day programme we intend to make a difference.”

During the next Big Learning Day students will be taught about healthy lifestyle choices and, using breast and testicular awareness products that contain lumps which simulate various tumours, students will be able to learn what an ‘abnormal lump’ feels like and what to do should such a situation arise.

Mark concluded, “at Andrew Marvell College we believe in holistic care and education. Obviously we care deeply about the students within our care, but we also care for the whole family and seek to raise awareness and education for all. It might just be as a result of the Daffodil Challenge we not only are able to enable others to bring care to those struggling with cancer, we might through education save a life.”