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.

Double Barrel Workshop

Baking pizzas and making bath bombs both hit the mark with 15 youngsters for this second workshop at Easter. Janine Pemberton hosted this one at Sleights Scout Hut today. Tonight she said that workshops are eggs-hausting. The Shedders agree. Janine summarised the day on the Kids Making Good Facebook page…

Cartloads of Skill

Day one of making Billy carts. “One of the best things I’ve ever done”, said one lad. All said they had enjoyed and benefited – team working, new skills, new people, new experiences they said. “Is this run by the Scouts?”, one mum asked. No, it was started as a…

Eskdale Students Develop Ideas

Great stuff Eskdale. They have gone deeper into what they previously suggested as workshop topics. Exactly what we need! Thanks to Mr. Bloor for encouraging the students to think through their ideas on paper. About a dozen here, with some more to come. The questions in the four boxes surrounding…

Scratch and Inspirational Callum

Scratch is a graphical programming tool that uses Lego-like blocks to describe computer logic. We are looking at this as part of the future Youth Shed in Sleights. Possibly also a KMG workshop. https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/ A visit to Stockton Library with grandsons to learn coding using Scratch (a free learning tool…

Get Booking for Easter Activities

Some wheelie good stuff for all ages 8 – 15. They will be all action and manageably challenging workshops with good outcomes! Below are the wheels for the push carts. And the design. For 11+ age Then there’s Bath Bomb and Pizza Making for 8 – 11. Ever trid a…

Easter Workshops Launch

Here are the final arrangements (note there is one change in date from preliminary announcement). This is now opened to any children/ young people in Whitby district (Staithes down to Bay). We are notifying other schools and have visited heads at several. There will be a feature in Whitby Gazette…

Ideas from Eskdale Students (extended)

The results of some constructive thinking about workshops by young people to be now built upon, “Here is the list of activities that students have suggested so far: Baking Art Sport Sewing Biking Football Gaming Making jewellery (out of waste plastic) Music (wriitng and performing songs) Beach clean Fashion Interior…

New Workshops for Easter break – Preliminary Announcement + Tim Peake & Scouts

There may be more on the way too, but these are confirmed. Nevertheless please treat the dates as indicative until the application process is launched with fuller details, including venues. NB Schools break up on Friday 12th April. Wednesday 17th April, two sessions by Katy Rawnsley of Jumping Jacks for…

Swift Boxes

Swifts will be on the wing in a few weeks after spending the winter in Africa. Predicted arrival at our shores is 7th May. Thus the Workshop at Littlebeck to make Swift bird boxes. Wonderful weather for the session alongside the beck. Plywood, hand saws, powered jig saw, hammers, glue,…

Noticed from South Korea

An email came in a week ago from a student research team at a University in South Korea. This is one of today, about 3 exchanges later. Dear Dr. Graham I’m so sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. I write some paper about our project and send…