On Monday, our Year 8 students had the chance to watch Chelsea’s Choice, an innovative and powerful piece of drama highlighting the serious and emotional issue of child sexual exploitation.
The play, which has been seen by over 340,000 young people throughout the UK, aims to raise awareness of the issues surrounding child sexual exploitation. It was directed and performed by the not-for-profit organisation, AlterEgo Creative Solutions, and followed by a Q&A session exploring the issues raised.

Chelsea’s Choice tells the story of a group of three students who discover the diary of a girl called Chelsea. Chelsea was a young girl who, having fallen out with her friends and family, was approached by a man called Gary. Gary was older, owned a car, had a flat and treated her like an adult. Unfortunately Gary was not what he seemed to be. Chelsea’s story is played out and examined by the three students along with their teacher in an attempt to understand what happened to Chelsea and how it could have been prevented.

Our Year 8 students were engaged by the drama and participated in the Q&A with enthusiasm and maturity.