17 December

Amazing, fun & great!

You know you’re getting it right when 96% of the girls tell you they are happy – which is why we at Girls Out Loud are feeling the need to SHOUT OUT LOUD! Everyone will be delighted to know that our last Discovery Day, with 84 girls in year 9 of Oldham’s Oasis Academy, was a great success. The feedback forms at the end of the session positively glowed with enthusiasm and the girls were left wanting more.

“Amazing, fun and great” said one “it was awesome” said another and “the discovery stars are brilliant and very friendly” said another: these were just a few of the endorsements they wrote down. Overwhelmingly they saw the benefit of the process and joined wholeheartedly in the action. They got the message, they were up for the challenge – and they loved the part where they created their own magazine.

Discovery Days are all about awakening and we are left in no doubt that a multitude of potential little stars started to shine brightly on that day.

Sleepy Heads

We’ve all heard the jokes and the sarcastic comments about lazy teenagers who can’t get out of bed: but it’s time we faced up to the facts of the matter. Scientific studies repeatedly conclude that teenagers are not wilfully lazy – they are simply bio-rhythmically challenged. Our bodies release melatonin to help us sleep but […]

Generosity

It was my passion for walking that led me to the idea of legging it from Manchester to London via the canal towpaths but, in case you should think I’m completely crazy, I also sought sponsorship as a way of rolling out more programmes to work with more girls. By the time I set off […]

Arriving in style with Bentley!

A fleet of Bentleys turned up to take 19 young ladies to a beauty salon and then on to a very special occasion. Can you guess what it was? Yes! It was the Graduation ceremony for the girls who have just completed the second Big Sister programme at Sir William Stanier School in Crewe. We […]

On eyebrows, sisterhood and taking your medicine.. A big sister shares her story incognito

I’m a 30 year-old-youngest-of-four, with parents the other side of 60…. And earlier this year, I became a big sister. There have been many plus points to taking on this new title; one of which was definitely the raised eyebrows I caused when telling people I’d just gained a little sis. In fact, your eyebrows […]

Our girls will not find self esteem in Heat Magazine anytime soon

Why oh why do so many successful, financially independent and beautiful women accept cheating, lying men back into their lives, even when it means public humiliation and loss of credibility? Demi Moore, Cheryl Cole, Rihanna, Colleen Rooney, Tania Ramsay to name a few. Sometimes I can see the attraction to the bad boy and the […]

EDUCATING GIRLS IS ABOUT EMPOWERING GIRLS ISN’T IT?

Last week the Head Mistress of an independent girls school, Vivienne Durham caused an outcry in female circles by saying girls definitely CANNOT have it all, feminism is over and girls must accept that they cannot have a family AND a career. She went on to say we must not lie to girls by telling […]

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