Kidz Making Good – Thinking, Doing, Solving, Sharing, Aiming

Great to be doing

"To see the enthusiasm of Scouts and Eskdale School students for hands on work was a joy."

Sharing is core to Making Good

Scouts sharing some lunch after working together with a Mentor

This is the Caedmon Bible

Where we live, our history as a community, our values are part of who we are

On line research

The workshops will be mobile phone free zones for social media. Computers will be an important part of some activities. Opportunity to learn.

Wrapping hands around experience

We hope every young person will grasp opportunities in their own way.

Personal and Social Assets That Promote Youth Well-Being

[https://www.nap.edu] The indicators of current well-being include good mental health, good school performance, good peer relations, good problem-solving skills, and very low levels (or the absence) of involvement in a variety of problem behaviours, such as gang membership, drug and alcohol use, school failure, school dropout, delinquency, and early pregnancy.

Families and Schools are in the forefront, but Kidz Making Good can also facilitate we believe.

Overarching Social Action

One of the requirements of the #iwill funding programme is that there is a strong social action thread to what is done. In our KMG project each workshop will, we intend, have a social action purpose, angle or content. There should be 20+workshops during the year each with such a dimension.

However, it was thought a good idea for these social action “jigsaw” pieces to fit an overarching theme.

Aiming high with our Whitby community as the target.

Building skills and out-of-school networks, raising the sights to become young citizens who contribute to communities and causes.

Cool for Kids ideas of what to do!

Lisa Pollard has run an online Facebook resource “Cool for Kids” for some years. It provides ideas of what to do during holiday periods in particular but now it is perhaps even more relevant. Cool for Kids link Take a look for inspiration. Lisa’s mother, Maggie, has been a twice…

Give a Hog a Home

Here is an idea From one of the Shedders in Staithes for Kidz Making Good to try as a workshop. We are thinking about this for a workshop at the end of the Easter school break. Give a hog a home We are always on the lookout for ideas for…

Copper Ring Making & Wet Felting Workshop

This coming Wednesday 19th February in the morning at Sleights Scout Hut, Narrowfields YO22 5DH. Arrive 9.45pm with a 12.30 pick up time. £8 per child. Advise Janine Pemberton to check last minute availability. Facebook Kidz Making Good That was the announcement and this the action. Great colours involved. First,…

A Look at Sleights Youth Shed Exploits (Over 8 weeks)

When we started the Friday night Youth Shed we did not know what to expect. We now have a few under our belt. We still don’t know what to expect on any evening! The youngsters are full of ideas and energy too. We have every sympathy for teachers! However, not…

Epidemic of Childhood Inactivity

But not just children. Adults too. And it is worldwide. According to a World Heath Organisation (WHO) report summarised on BBC news. “Four in five 11- to 17-year-olds around the world are not taking enough physical exercise, according to the first such analysis.The World Health Organisation says children’s health is being…

Wii Sport and Pumpkin Heads

The youngsters at Sleights Primary know “Mrs Vicar” although the Rev. Veronica has retired and vacated the manse. The Youth Shed has benefited from the move and downsizing, however! In the previous blog on the Youth Shed the snooker/pool table is evident. That was a donation from Veronica and Shedder…

Second Sleights Youth Shed night and Upcoming KMG Pumpkin Carving

Sadly, Bob who helped with the Youth Shed on the first night was unwell. A disaster? It could easily have been but Graham’s good lady stepped in at first but along came two mums. Brilliant. It’s exactly what the Sheds are about, community – and community starts at family! So,…

Sleights Youth Shed Opened Last Night

A night well done! Half a dozen. Others from Sleights and the hinterland are now expressing interest from their youngsters and themselves. It is work – like the adult Sheds – to benefit and develop Shedders who come. We started with a ring of chairs to meet each other and…

Sleights Youth Shed Opens this Friday 18th October at 6.15pm – 8pm

You will realise that starting anything new that is not purely entertainment means that success will depend on building numbers slowly and getting to know those who come. Thus we are not looking at present for more than a dozen youngsters and across the 8 – 13 year old range…

Automata for Kidz and Archimedes Screw

All about levers, cams, cogs, pulleys and more. We want to make a working automaton in a day with 10 youngsters! Something like in the video! Automata are like robots but there are no motors and the movement of the object is repetitive = like the ever cobbling cobbler in…