During Activity Week our Year 10 and Year 12 students enjoyed a day of self-defence instruction from Defence Lab Training. Tahir is a patient, no-nonsense teacher who delivered very useful information and techniques to ensure that pupils were properly trained to deal with real-life situations they might meet when going about their daily lives.

Our pupils found the lessons good fun and full of practical common-sense approaches, which are easy to use and very effective. If you want to run a self-defence course for school children, I have no hesitation in recommending Tahir and his company.

Jane Daniels
Assistant Head of Year

Tahir and his team came to work with our Year 10 girls during our activity week, which was themed around female empowerment. The skills that the girls learnt, both practical and theoretical, certainly empowered them to feel more protected and confident, particularly in the light of recent global events such as the “Me Too” movement. After a talk and some of personal anecdotes, told in an accessible and humorous way, the pupils worked in small groups on different self-defence techniques. The repeated practice meant that these techniques are now embedded. Hopefully they will never have to use them, but they certainly feel more confident out and about now.

Charlotte Demetz – Assistant Principle