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Benfield School Paperclip Project

We are sending this video to introduce our project The BENFIELD School Paperclip project We learn about the Holocaust every year during the month of January around Holocaust Memorial Day, every class in History and R.E. have lessons to remind them what it is all about. And every year the same question comes up: ‘’ What does 6 million actually look like?’’ The students… well boys mainly have an ability to imagine what 52,387 might look like as that what ‘ St James Park’ would be at full capacity!! The girls have an ability to imagine what 12,000 might look like as that is what ‘ Metro radio arena ‘ would be at full capacity for a JLS concert!! But none of us can really imagine what 6 million actually looks like and to be honest neither can our teachers And this is when we decided to try and do something about it We found out that when the Nazis invaded Norway not everyone agreed with what they were doing. Some people began to wear a paperclip instead of a broach – which was banned – to show resistance, for this this they could’ve been arrested and even killed!

A few years our teachers had been talking to a colleague about a film he had been watching called the paperclip project and we decided to do this for ourselves, we want to collect 6 million paperclips and try and get a sculptor on our side – anyone know Antony Gormley?! ……– to develop a lasting memorial for the victims of the holocaust from the paperclips, so that anyone who visits Benfield can see it. So we introduced the project in our school, started with a poster competition in which we were asked to count the paperclips in the poster. Students were enthusiastic with 176 entrants who had to write their name, number and attach the paperclip to their entry. 30 have been correct!! The school has really taken this project on board Year 7 have written a letter that has gone out to various places Year 8 have developed posters and now we are producing a short film to go out to schools, on our school website and on You Tube. But we know we can’t collect all six million ourselves and this is where you come in Can you help

We need you to help us collect the six million paperclips One school has already sent us 7229 paperclips can you beat them? Would you like to join in in the poster competition? Can you think of any other ways to get people to donate paperclips like friends and family?

We really appreciate you taking the time to watch our video If you would like to get involved please contact us through either Ms Liddle our History teacher or Mrs Hall our RE teacher and they will get you involved. Thank you again for listening