It’s here! We are so excited to share Highfield School’s incredible film ‘We are all the Same but Different’ where young people 'have something say', are 'unapologetically themselves', and tell us what makes them happy; who they are; and what they stand for!

Read below some words from our Speak Up Rep Carla Addyman, who has been working with the group...

'I am delighted to have worked with Highfield pupils since September 2002. They have created so much brilliant work during Speak Up - drawings, poems, music - and in many ways, it feels like everything we’ve done has been building toward the moment of making this film.

We’ve loved coming together every Tuesday afternoon to work on the film - sometimes in a classroom, sometimes in the dinner hall, and even outside when we got lucky! The group learned how to animate using iPads and experiment with stop motion. They recorded their own lines, acted on camera, and even filmed parts themselves.

We wanted this film to have everyone’s personality at the heart of it. It’s theirs, completely, and it stands for everything they believe in.

At its core, we’re asking: Do young people have to stand for something? Or, in 2025, is simply existing as a young person already a stand in itself? We thought so. So, we made a film about us, what makes us who we are. Through personal stories or ones we’ve imagined, everything you see is how we want to be seen.

I’m so incredibly proud to present their work to you, a film that is bold, thought-provoking, and deeply personal.'