CHERWELL HAIR FESTIVAL

March 2023

- By Ms Codrington

On March 22nd and 23rd we ran the first ever Cherwell Big Hair Festival, with activities on both North and South Site. Students were able to listen to a talk by a hair expert in curly, wavy and Afro hair. We are very grateful to our external patrons Busayo Olupitan and Traci Walters who provided 11 boxes of full sized Sof n Free hair products (shampoo, conditioner and curl mousse) each retailing at about £5 each.

We ran a hair product exchange where students could bring half or full hair products and exchange either for a full product or from the donated stock. Students were recommending products to each other which created a positive and lively lunch time!

Also a thank you to Dr Bonsaver and Ms Teixeira (the librarianson both North and South) who allowed us to take over the Library spaces to give out hair products and advice to students across Year 7 to Sixth Form.

A quick thank you to all students who were involved in the first Hair Festival and for the feedback which was mainly 'When are we doing it again?' and 'Can we get more products and choices?'

If you would like to get involved next year then please do get in touch, especially if you are a hairdresser, braider, barber or hair trainer - we would love for you to share your experience with the students. We have set up an online photostream https://photos.app.goo.gl/KLdSdrTL1YNsn6CG6 if you would like to see some of the pictures of the event. Students are encouraged to send me pictures so I can upload as a celebration of everything Hair, just include name and year group.

Now you got the freebies, what next? Nothing comes for free!! :)

We have created a google photo book and we need more pictures from you.

Thank you to everyone who made this festival a success.

Ms Codrington

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