Story ideas for next week:
Story one:
Waltham Forest youngsters together with young people from other four Olympic host boroughs are going to showcase their talents at the Hackley Empire.
The event is part of the government's Aiming High for Young People, which aims to provide positive activities for them to participate in, and divert them from causing anti-social problems. In addition, it is also part of the big picture of CREATE programme and Cultural Olympiad.
My angle:
How this cultural event encourages them to be involved in positive activities and diverts them from causing anti-social problems.
Story two:
pupils from Waltham Forest are going to attend an event about how to tackle extremism. It is hoped this will encourage community cohesion.
My angle:
How does this event help improve community cohesion? Why is it important to involve pupils at school in tackling extremism and how are they going to be trained to tacle the problem?
Showing posts with label Waltham Forest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waltham Forest. Show all posts
Friday, 29 January 2010
Friday, 15 January 2010
Pupils tackle anti-social behaviour in Waltham Forest
This article is published on the BBC London Website:
By Yixiang Zeng
BBC London
Youngsters from one of London's Olympic boroughs are working with police to tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce the fear of crime.
The project 'Develop', part of London 2012's Changing Places Programme, has been launched in Waltham Forest in preparation for the Games to make the community safer and more pleasant.
Metropolitan Police Constable Jeff Wade, who works on the Olympic Safety and Security Programme, said: "Some areas are heavily painted by graffiti, by removing this from the walls it will make people feel our community is safer and nicer.
"In the meantime, we organise people to paint community art pieces such as landscapes, like flowers."
Cameras and maps
Groups of children from Rush Croft Sports College and Walthamstow School for Girls are teaming up with police officers and their teaching assistants.
The pupils from year nine and ten have been given cameras and maps to photograph or film graffiti, broken windows and overgrown gardens as part of a task to identify blackspots in their community.
These photographs and footage will then be displayed and showed at a workshop at a later stage of the project.
Sean Reed, Assistant Head Teacher from Rush Croft Sports College, said: "Our school children are quite enjoying taking part in these activities and they are learning to be active citizens taking care of the places where they live and study."
The police added that it helps break the stereotypical image of associating young people with anti-social behaviour and knife/gun crime.
Waltham Forest councillor Liaquat Ali, who is responsible for Children and Young People, said: "By getting young people involved in this kind of project, we make sure they take pride of their ownership."
Getting adults involved
Apart from working with local youngsters as Develop's starting point, the project is also designed to involve other age groups at a later stage.
The next stage is a problem-solving workshop and involves older members of the community working with the pupils to consider potential solutions to the concerns raised. After that, the ideas will be put into practice.
At the final stage, an event is planned to bring all the schools together to showcase their ideas and discuss what they have been doing throughout the whole project.
According to PC Wade, the project might be introduced to other Olympic boroughs and then to other areas in the UK in partnership with local forces.
By Yixiang Zeng
BBC London
Youngsters from one of London's Olympic boroughs are working with police to tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce the fear of crime.
The project 'Develop', part of London 2012's Changing Places Programme, has been launched in Waltham Forest in preparation for the Games to make the community safer and more pleasant.
Metropolitan Police Constable Jeff Wade, who works on the Olympic Safety and Security Programme, said: "Some areas are heavily painted by graffiti, by removing this from the walls it will make people feel our community is safer and nicer.
"In the meantime, we organise people to paint community art pieces such as landscapes, like flowers."
Cameras and maps
Groups of children from Rush Croft Sports College and Walthamstow School for Girls are teaming up with police officers and their teaching assistants.
The pupils from year nine and ten have been given cameras and maps to photograph or film graffiti, broken windows and overgrown gardens as part of a task to identify blackspots in their community.
These photographs and footage will then be displayed and showed at a workshop at a later stage of the project.
Sean Reed, Assistant Head Teacher from Rush Croft Sports College, said: "Our school children are quite enjoying taking part in these activities and they are learning to be active citizens taking care of the places where they live and study."
The police added that it helps break the stereotypical image of associating young people with anti-social behaviour and knife/gun crime.
Waltham Forest councillor Liaquat Ali, who is responsible for Children and Young People, said: "By getting young people involved in this kind of project, we make sure they take pride of their ownership."
Getting adults involved
Apart from working with local youngsters as Develop's starting point, the project is also designed to involve other age groups at a later stage.
The next stage is a problem-solving workshop and involves older members of the community working with the pupils to consider potential solutions to the concerns raised. After that, the ideas will be put into practice.
At the final stage, an event is planned to bring all the schools together to showcase their ideas and discuss what they have been doing throughout the whole project.
According to PC Wade, the project might be introduced to other Olympic boroughs and then to other areas in the UK in partnership with local forces.
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
School children contribute to community safety (story plan)
by Yixiang Zeng
Original press release from Metropolitan Police Service:
Young people from Waltham Forest are teaming up with local police officers to tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce fear of crime.
The project, named “Develop”, aims to improve community safety and build a lasting Olympic legacy in the Olympics hosting boroughs.
It launched as part of the Olympic Safety and Security Programmes to mark 1000 days to go until the Paralympic Games arrive in London.
The Metropolitan local police is now working with Walthamstow School for Girls and Rushcroft Sports Academy.
My angle
How the project raise community awareness for local youngsters as well as reduce fear of crime, and how these local young people find their way to contribute positively to London 2012 Olympics?
Interview questions
For Walthamstow School for Girls & Rushcroft Sports Academy (Schools Officials):
When did these activities start and how long will they last?
How old are these pupils?
What did these activities involve?
Why did the school decide to participate?
What do you mean by “community awareness”?
What do you mean by “reduce fear of crime”?
How is this project going to help with community awareness? As well as reduce fear of crime?
In your opinion, what caused the fear of crime?
Can you give some examples about how is this project going to reduce the fear of crime?
How do your school children contribute to the Olympics?
What impact does the Olympics have on your school children?
How do your school children benefit from this project?
What results has the project brought to the school so far?
Does the project have three stages? After your school completing the first stage, do you intend to participate in the other two?
Metropolitan Police Officers: (PC Jeff Wade from the Metropolitan Police Service, who works on the Olympic Safety and Security Programme):
What is the aim of this project?
When did these activities start and how long will it last?
What did these activities involve?
Why did you choose to start the project from Waltham Forest?
Why did you choose these two institutions?
Will you involve other institutions later for the same project?
How do these school pupils help contribute to the Olympics?
What impact does the Olympics have on the local school children?
How do these local school children benefit from this project?
What do you mean by “community awareness”?
What do you mean by “reduce fear of crime”?
Please give some examples how youngsters help reduce fear of crime as well as raise community awareness.
Why are you deciding to work on such project only now?
Why do you choose to tackle anti-social behaviour particularly? (There are many other crimes, such as knife crime)
Why do you choose to work with local youngsters in this case, but not from other ages? (Normally youngsters are the ones to create nuisance)
What are the results so far?
Are you going to work on the same project in other four Olympics boroughs? If so when? If not why?
Children
What do you understand by community awareness?
What do you understand by reducing fear of crime?
What have you done in this project?
Do you think you can directly reduce the fear of crime? If yes, how? If no, why?
How are you going to contribute to the Olympics through this project?
Why are the Olympics important to you?
Parents
What crime do you think needs to be sorted out in your community?
How will this project help you understand these terms better, ie. Community awareness or reducing fear of crime.
What have your children done so far in this project? Examples
How do you feel this project help your children develop their community awareness and reduce fear of crime?
How do you think this project help your children contribute to the Olympics?
Do you think the Olympics has an impact on your children, and how?
How do your children benefit from this project?
Original press release from Metropolitan Police Service:
Young people from Waltham Forest are teaming up with local police officers to tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce fear of crime.
The project, named “Develop”, aims to improve community safety and build a lasting Olympic legacy in the Olympics hosting boroughs.
It launched as part of the Olympic Safety and Security Programmes to mark 1000 days to go until the Paralympic Games arrive in London.
The Metropolitan local police is now working with Walthamstow School for Girls and Rushcroft Sports Academy.
My angle
How the project raise community awareness for local youngsters as well as reduce fear of crime, and how these local young people find their way to contribute positively to London 2012 Olympics?
Interview questions
For Walthamstow School for Girls & Rushcroft Sports Academy (Schools Officials):
When did these activities start and how long will they last?
How old are these pupils?
What did these activities involve?
Why did the school decide to participate?
What do you mean by “community awareness”?
What do you mean by “reduce fear of crime”?
How is this project going to help with community awareness? As well as reduce fear of crime?
In your opinion, what caused the fear of crime?
Can you give some examples about how is this project going to reduce the fear of crime?
How do your school children contribute to the Olympics?
What impact does the Olympics have on your school children?
How do your school children benefit from this project?
What results has the project brought to the school so far?
Does the project have three stages? After your school completing the first stage, do you intend to participate in the other two?
Metropolitan Police Officers: (PC Jeff Wade from the Metropolitan Police Service, who works on the Olympic Safety and Security Programme):
What is the aim of this project?
When did these activities start and how long will it last?
What did these activities involve?
Why did you choose to start the project from Waltham Forest?
Why did you choose these two institutions?
Will you involve other institutions later for the same project?
How do these school pupils help contribute to the Olympics?
What impact does the Olympics have on the local school children?
How do these local school children benefit from this project?
What do you mean by “community awareness”?
What do you mean by “reduce fear of crime”?
Please give some examples how youngsters help reduce fear of crime as well as raise community awareness.
Why are you deciding to work on such project only now?
Why do you choose to tackle anti-social behaviour particularly? (There are many other crimes, such as knife crime)
Why do you choose to work with local youngsters in this case, but not from other ages? (Normally youngsters are the ones to create nuisance)
What are the results so far?
Are you going to work on the same project in other four Olympics boroughs? If so when? If not why?
Children
What do you understand by community awareness?
What do you understand by reducing fear of crime?
What have you done in this project?
Do you think you can directly reduce the fear of crime? If yes, how? If no, why?
How are you going to contribute to the Olympics through this project?
Why are the Olympics important to you?
Parents
What crime do you think needs to be sorted out in your community?
How will this project help you understand these terms better, ie. Community awareness or reducing fear of crime.
What have your children done so far in this project? Examples
How do you feel this project help your children develop their community awareness and reduce fear of crime?
How do you think this project help your children contribute to the Olympics?
Do you think the Olympics has an impact on your children, and how?
How do your children benefit from this project?
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Olympic borough youngsters serve for their community
A police officer praised a community-based project a great opportunity to involve young people “in building a truly worthwhile and long lasting legacy” to the Olympic borough.
Teenagers from Waltham Forest are teaming up with local police officers to tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce fear of crime as part of a project named 'Develop', which encourages them to take responsibility for their local area and learn about the important contribution that their efforts can make to the community.
Police Constable Jeff Wade from the Metropolitan Police Service, who works on the Olympic Safety and Security Programme,said: “It has been a fantastic start to the project, the pupils we have worked with have been really keen and have enjoyed having their say.”
“These activities are a great opportunity for all members of the community to get involved in building a truly worthwhile and long lasting legacy to the Olympic for Waltham Forest.”
Pupils from year 9 and 10 at Walthamstow School for Girls and Rushcroft Sports Academy were invited to take part in phase 1, where teams were supplied with equipment such as cameras and maps and asked to identify good and bad points about their local areas, which included places they felt were intimidating or in need of development.
All the activities are delivered by officers from the Waltham Forest Safer Schools Team and local Safer Neighbourhoods Teams.
The next stage of the project is a problem solving workshop and involved local residents working with the pupils to consider potential solutions to the concerns raised.
The final stage will see the creation of initiatives to put their ideas into practice.
The project also strengthens understanding and relationships between the diverse communities as they are work together on raising pride in their local areas.
As part of London 2012's Changing Places Programme, it is launched within the five east London Olympic host boroughs include Nemham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich.
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(Completion time: An hour and 12 minutes)
Teenagers from Waltham Forest are teaming up with local police officers to tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce fear of crime as part of a project named 'Develop', which encourages them to take responsibility for their local area and learn about the important contribution that their efforts can make to the community.
Police Constable Jeff Wade from the Metropolitan Police Service, who works on the Olympic Safety and Security Programme,said: “It has been a fantastic start to the project, the pupils we have worked with have been really keen and have enjoyed having their say.”
“These activities are a great opportunity for all members of the community to get involved in building a truly worthwhile and long lasting legacy to the Olympic for Waltham Forest.”
Pupils from year 9 and 10 at Walthamstow School for Girls and Rushcroft Sports Academy were invited to take part in phase 1, where teams were supplied with equipment such as cameras and maps and asked to identify good and bad points about their local areas, which included places they felt were intimidating or in need of development.
All the activities are delivered by officers from the Waltham Forest Safer Schools Team and local Safer Neighbourhoods Teams.
The next stage of the project is a problem solving workshop and involved local residents working with the pupils to consider potential solutions to the concerns raised.
The final stage will see the creation of initiatives to put their ideas into practice.
The project also strengthens understanding and relationships between the diverse communities as they are work together on raising pride in their local areas.
As part of London 2012's Changing Places Programme, it is launched within the five east London Olympic host boroughs include Nemham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich.
(324 words)
(Completion time: An hour and 12 minutes)
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