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GE Build My Future goes into Schools - Clough Hall Technical College, Stoke-on -Trent

Added 13th January 2014
Pictures from Clough Hall are below

Build My Future is a new education, health and wellbeing programme for 13/14 year olds, made possible by a GE Foundation grant. Build My Future uses business volunteers and fun practical activities to enable young people to discover that a balance and strength in four important aspects of life can help build success and happiness. The four aspects of life are:

  1. Expertise - skills and qualifications
  2. Health - physical and emotional
  3. Citizenship - social, political and environmental awareness
  4. Socialising - building relationships and engagement with others

Why?

Build My Future was developed in response to concerns over critical issues facing young people in Britain today. A quarter of 11-14s in the UK have a low estimation of their wellbeing. Teenagers are increasingly anxious about their future, and too many suffer from poor self-esteem. These factors along with declining social mobility are recognised causes of poor achievement. The target age group of 13/14 is deemed to be the point at which a person's aspirations become fixed and when they make major choices for their future. This programme aims to imbue them with greater self-belief.

How?

Volunteers run an exciting one day event in schools. Students work in teams of six with one volunteer to explore the four elements – expertise, health, citizenship and socialising – in detail.

They take part in three activities, as follows:

Activity 1 is a card game about life. Playing as a team, the young people create a fictional character who experiences many life events that the young people themselves will face. Its life story is built from age 13 to 25.

Activity 2 is where the students create a life-size puppet entity that reflects the character and its life story. The students create, decorate and script their puppet.

The final activity is a presentation. The young people must convey the character and its life story to memorably affirm the day's learning objective for everyone.

The volunteers' role is to help deliver the day alongside the lead facilitator. They will share their own experiences of the four elements, run the mechanics of the card game, ensure the young people work well as a team during the puppet making activity, 'interview' the puppet in the presentation activity and award prizes. The lead volunteer will also be responsible for setting up the event with the chosen school and measuring the programme's impact.

GE Volunteers complete training 

 

 

Individual GE Volunteers are quizzed and then introduced by Year 9 students to the year group

 

The day starts with a the short film 'Sharon amd Max 2' that sets the scene for what will happen during the day  

The Build My Future Game is played

 

 

 

The character from the game begins to become a puppet

 

One group used their GE Volunteer as the model for their puppet

 

Profiling and scripting the character ready to perform 

Rehearsals

Performances

Snap?

Rewards for winners - best puppet, best performance and best players of the card game leading toan overall winner

The school is taking the work on in PHSE and technology to improve the puppets and  build short films or another performance event made up of a panel of puppet characters able to explain the importance of a balance in  - Expertise, Health, Socialising and Citizenship.

Outcomes from the students work will be displayed on Build My Future -TV

 

 

 

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