Every year, in the spirit of Breast Cancer Awareness, schools across the country choose to replace their everyday formal student attire with a monochrome look that is in no way monotone.
Last week, to commemorate Pink Day, the halls and classrooms of Tiffin Girls’ school were abundantly adorned with shades of fuschia, cerise, magenta and so many more.
Pink week is an annual celebration, an integral component of the Tiffin Girls’ calendar.
Each year, two Year 11 students from each form volunteer to help in delivering a breast cancer awareness assembly and organising fundraisers throughout the duration of the week.
Their amazing collaborative work this year saw break and lunchtimes transform into bustling bake sales, nail salons and photobooths.
Festivities did not at all deplete over the course of the week and instead became all the more extravagant, with the half term drawing to a close following the pink parade, an annual spectacle where students gather to watch their very own teachers strut their stuff, bedazzled in pink, all contributing to a good cause.
Speaking to pink rep, Isla Hodgson, who was one of several at the forefront of organising the week’s events, I was able to better understand just how much spreading Breast Cancer Awareness means to her.
“I’ve always cared deeply about raising awareness about breast cancer because of my family’s history with it,” she told me.
“I’ve seen the fear it can inspire in those who know they are at risk and the effects it can have on those who have it so I’ve always known I wanted to be involved in pink week at our school.”
She talked about the importance of educating people everywhere about the disease and spoke of how happy she was to have been part of organising the week.
“It was quite difficult trying to keep everything organised but it’s very rewarding to know that I did something to contribute towards a good cause, especially one that means so much to me,” she said.
The most common form of cancer in the UK, breast cancer is an illness affecting approximately 1 in 7 women at some point in their lifetime.
With such high statistics, it is imperative that schools across the world strive to ‘think pink’ and do more to educate students, thereby increasing chances of detection and diagnosis, the most effective prevention technique available to combat such a horrible disease.
