May Update from our Sexual Violence Prevention Worker

I am writing this the morning after Scotland recorded the lowest temperature in May ever, coming in at -9C! Despite this chilly low, I am happy to let you know some of the wonderful highs that have been accomplished in the Prevention world recently.

Workshops in a number of our Moray High Schools are ongoing, including a bespoke workshop created for Year 9s attending Gordonstoun. More workshops are now being booked in for the remainder of the year and into 2027! Moray school’s timetable changes in May so once we know when classes are scheduled for their PSE lessons in school, we book Moray Rape Crisis workshops into the diary very quickly as the slots fill up fast.

If you are a teacher or leader of a youth group in Moray and would like to book a workshop with Harry, our Sexual Violence Prevention Worker, please email us at contact@morayrapecrisis.scot

My most recent workshops have been with the students at Elgin High School and it has been a pleasure to get to speak with the young people there. They have been engaging, insightful and always curious to learn and understand more. Forres Academy are just finishing up a series of Understanding Sexual Violence and Pornography workshops and I am proud of their engagement in these workshops as we cover a lot of interesting ideas, thoughts and opinions.

Lossiemouth High School have just secured 74 dates for their school community until January ’27 and I am honoured to be invited to deliver all 4 of the Sexual Violence Prevention Programme workshops. I am excited to be in school so much and being able to meet so many wonderful students – thank you LHS!!!

Finally, I wanted to let you know I visited the AYE Bus! recently, whilst it was parked up at Cooper Park – please visit their Facebook page to find out more about the service, its locations, and its timings. The staff I met on the bus are simply wonderful people and it’s fantastic to see such rapport between themselves and the teenagers of Moray. They have so many awesome bits of kit on the bus but I was too scared to subject anyone to my pitiful karaoke and DJ skills. Go check them out!

The Sexual Violence Prevention Programme runs throughout the year during a High School’s PSE lessons. For more information about the programme, please visit our website.