A list of current Citizen Projects is detailed
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Bedlingtonshire Community High School |
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As a school we are always keen to become as involved with the local community as we can be. We are intending setting up a lunch club for older residents of our area whereby they can come into our school once (or twice) a week for a meal in the school canteen. We used to run a similar scheme in the past and it proved quite popular with the community and students alike.
Our plan is to make this project as accessible as possible to all senior citizens and therefore intend subsidising the cost of a meal. All of this would be run via the school council and some year 10 students who would be doing it as part of their coursework(citizenship).
We alreday have strong links with relevant local organisations that will enable us to reach our potential target group.
Our sucess is linked to the funding we achieve and so are applying for the maximum amount of £1500.
Allthough this has been submitted by staff (Head of Citizenship) This will be run by year 10 students and the school council with myself as overall coordinator. If accepted I will advise of the names of the students as soon as possible. |
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Ridgeway High School |
| Project Outline |
One of the school council members has a younger sister at one of the local junior schools. The junior school has sent a request to parents asking for help making Story Sacks. The pupil from our school saw the request and would like pupils from our school to help. The council have been in touch with the junior school - Hillside Juniors and the Head is delighted with the idea.
The Project - The pupils would visit the junior school and talk to the class teacher and a number of books would be selected. The pupils would then make characters to match the story which can be used by the class teacher to encourage and stimulate the children. Our pupils would make the characters in textiles and construction technology. They would also like to video the pupils when the story is being read and put this onto the school web site to encourage other schools to do the same.
The team - The team will be pupils from year 9 as they have the design technology skills to produce a high quality product. The team will be divided into groups as some pupils will work on the design of the characters ie will it be a puppet, soft toy, constructed from wood etc. Some pupils will work out the cost of the materials needed and will present a Business Plan to the school Bursar for funding. All pupils will be involved in the making process. Some pupils will be sent to the junior school to use a digital video camera to video the story being told and load this and other information about the project onto the school website.
Timescale - The entire project will take a term and will run from Easter to the end of the summer term in total. Final objective is the presentation of the story sack and the video.
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The Wey Valley School |
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Wey Valley Radio will bring together pupils from all year groups to work as a successful team. We later hope to broadcast over the internet which will potentially have an effect on the worlds community not just our school. Our statement is "One Station, One Community."
The Radio Station team is made up from a mixture of age groups, all working towards one thing - Wey Valley Radio. Each team member is responsible for getting their shows on air. This involves scripting, editing, and recording. Each production crew will work towards creating 6 types of recordings that will be used on air - Comedy, News, Music, Comps, Jingles and a Commercial/Advert.
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Charles Edward Brooke8c |
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The Mobile Shed Community Project
In our mobile shed Citizen Project we will enable community groups to raise funds to support their work by hiring our tuck shop shed.
The Project will help the St Christopher's Hospice, Primary Schools, Day Care Centres and Charities in our Communities.
Our Citizen Project team is split into a Finance,
Communications, PR and a Design area. Finally every area has one leader.
We plan to promote the Shed Citizen project with leaflets, Head's Tea Party and
Mail outs.
Furthermore we will finance the project with two different recourses: with the Citizen Project funds and raised money through cooking a lot of cakes at Christmas time.
Our first success was to bye gifts for poor families in Africa with using www.greatgifts.co.uk. We are proud to bought a goat, a sheep, a water hygiene kit and a vaccination for a child in Africa.
The long term benefit of our Citizen Project is raising more money for charities.
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Exmouth Community College |
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The students of Exmouth Community School have decided their Citizen Project will compare peoples views about “what makes a good Citizen” in Exmouth, Devon and in Resolute Bay, the High Arctic. They hope to improve the understanding of other cultures within the local Exmouth Community.
4 boys and 4 girls from the college will be undertaking an expedition to Resolute Bay in the High Arctic next Easter. Once there, in addition to flying up to the North Pole to meet a Navy/Marine expedition, they will take part in a whole series of cultural experiences. These experiences will be designed to give the students a much greater understanding of the world around them. All of the students going on the expedition are committed to then communicating and sharing these experiences either live via our website back to our community or by giving presentations to people from within the Exmouth Community, ranging from Primary School students to Business people.
Before going on the Expedition the team members will also contact the local secondary school in Resolute Bay to begin to develop ideas about how our expedition might be able to help their community. This could for instance be interviewing elders from the Inuit community and recording the conversation to be put on the website. In this way their experiences would be captured for both ours and the Inuit community to share. This detail has yet to be fully developed.
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Hayes School |
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We want to do a reading project with a primary school in the area where we share our favourite books and make a book with all of our favourites to put in the library for other children to use and ideas for what they can read if they don’t know.
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Parliament Hill School |
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To help year 9 students who have attendance issues to improve their attendance and support their catch up programme in preparation of their SATs exams. |
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george abbot |
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Environmental project with continuation of the recycling scheme, sensory garden and wildlife area.
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Tomlinscote |
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Transform an over-grown area within the school grounds to provide an area of open space for students in their free time using eco-friendly products and at the same time enhancing the quality of the school environment. |
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Davenant Foundation |
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Trident Trust was able to offer us funding to carry out two Active Citizenship projects, financed by Deutsche Bank. The purpose was to provide some activities for members of the local community which were organised by the students themselves with very little adult input.
The first one was a lunch and afternoon entertainment for local Senior Citizens which included a sing along of all the old favourites (First as well as Second World War popular songs), Bingo and afternoon tea with scones and jam. The guests really appreciated the efforts of the year 10 girls who organised the whole thing.
The second event involved sixteen toddlers and their carers who were entertained by a different group of male and female students with dancing, games and a live puppet show. Even the students entered into the spirit by dressing up as Pirates and Princesses alongside the little ones! A delightful time was enjoyed by all and the parents seemed pleased to see their little ones so heartily entertained by the students. There were prizes and even healthy foods!
The students had to project manage both events from beginning to end, 'Apprentice ' style and every detail had to be organised by them from distribution of invitations through to costing and purchase of all items and tidying and clearing up at the end. Mrs. Lamb, their teacher is very proud of their achievements. Although it was hard work, it was enormously satisfying and the students are all keen to repeat the events again, perhaps at Christmas.
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Forest Gate Community (CSV) |
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Moulsham |
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Moulsham |
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Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School (CSV) |
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Preston Manor High School (CSV) |
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Current Running Citizen Projects
