Charity Show Racism the Red Card celebrates school competition winners at Liverpool Football Club’s ground.

A NINE-year-old pupil from the West Midlands has been named overall winner of Show Racism the Red Card’s (SRtRC) anti-racism school competition, which is sponsored by the NEU.

Sophie Bond’s film, described by the charity as one of the most unique entries in the competition’s 24-year history, was chosen from more than 25,000 entries.

The UK-wide competition encourages young people to produce creative work with an original anti-racism theme.

In her imaginative video, Sophie dons a series of different coloured fish hats and argues that the rich diversity of humans should be celebrated in the same way as multicoloured fish.

“Look at our beautiful ocean full of billions of colourful fish, they don’t care about skin colour, on land this is my wish,” she begins.

Her parting message is: “My stand against racism is a tiny drop in an ocean so big and vast, but if every human added their drop, we’d see sea change so fast. So look at humans like fish, and appreciate that every skin colour you see makes our wonderful world a much better place to be.”

‘No more fitting winner’

SRtRC’s director of operations Paul Kearns said: “The competition judges absolutely loved Sophie’s creative way of articulating a strong anti-racism message. It is genuinely one of the most unique entries that we have received in the 24-year history of the competition.

“Sophie’s film was a clever way to portray a serious message – that we all have a part to play in helping to change the world for the better. The film was also really well received by the audience at the awards ceremony and there can be a no more fitting winner of the 2023 school competition.”

Sophie is a pupil at Solihull School, where pupils from nursery upwards entered the competition, the biggest equalitiesthemed competition in the UK.

Winners in six categories travelled to Liverpool Football Club’s ground, Anfield Stadium, for the awards ceremony on 4 May, where they were presented with prizes by former Liverpool and England player John