Kidz Making Good

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.

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…

Two Future Workshops

Two offers of new workshops. Cowen’s and John Freeman At October half-term Cowen’s (window and door manufacturers in Whitby) have offered youngsters the opportunity to see technology at work. The technologies behind insulation of windows and doors, to keep the heat in! The technology they use to manufacture the components…

Sleights Youth Shed nears

A Saturday assembling tall kitchen storage units at Sleights Scout Hut Connor, Dillon, Thomas and Isaac worked on Saturday with Roger, Eddie and Graham to figure out the assembly instructions of Howden self-assembly units. There are many ways to assemble the units, but only one correct way:-) The four lads…

Young Fire Crew!

Eight youngsters underwent training at Whitby Fire Station. On the schedule was resuscitation, vehicle maintenance, ropy skills and water safety. Plus a cab eye view of the road and a short blast from the sirens with blue lights. It was an action packed morning with a lot to learn through…

Sleights Youth Shed & Howden’s delivered

We are pleased to say that Howden Joinery (who have helped two of the adult Sheds previously) is donating storage units for the Scout Hut in Sleights for efficient storage to support the new Youth Shed. We’ll soon be looking for Young Shedders to help us put them together. If…

Flower Crowns Workshop

The last of the summer holiday workshops. A great morning with Michelle using the Sleights Scout Hut. There were 11 girls working quite solidly on what is a fiddly but very creative task. Thanks to two mums who stayed on and helped the youngsters (and did a crown themselves). When…

Cranky Bike Safety and Repair Workshop

Well, it was the infamous Dr. Crank who led it in great style. He’s a very entertaining teacher of bikes and also the Ghost Walk man (as you can see). However, nothing scary about him today. Two “real” punctures were repaired in two of the bikes brought by youngsters and…

Sleights Youth Shed

We are pleased to say that the weekly Youth Shed in Sleights is on the way to being delivered! It will be on a Friday evening at Sleights Scout Hut in Narrowfields, opening in later September. This will complement the Scouting activities for Cubs and Beavers held there and, of…

Sew and Sew

Shirley Sutherland led a great morning workshop today making fish, cats and hearts. A wide range of skills to learn from using pinking shears, pins and needles, machine sewing, stuffing with soft filling, hand sewing and for some, washing up! We appreciate those who came to help Shirley and to…