Education
Issue 41 May 2004
Future
Deals
New Deal are currently
negotiating a project with Sheffield Futures to deliver more youth
services, but a Futures insider has recently informed the Messenger
that youth centres have suffered cut backs as a result of a city-wide
spending freeze and redundancies...
Coaching
Introduction to Benjiman Hamilton, new
community sports coach, plus course details for budding coaches...
Reach
High 2 Study Support Project
Young Pakistani people
in Burngreave, Page Hall, Fir Vale and Firth Park will now have
access to extra support with the launch of Reach High 2, developed
by the Kashmir Education Trust and managed by Burngreave Community
Action Trust...
Sewing
success
Rob Smith visits the Furnival
Café to see the work produced by local women on the successful
cross stitching and creative workshop, and to find out what the
group felt they’d achieved…
 Family
learning for all!
New Deal funded Community
Education Co-ordinators have been busy organising the first community
Family Learning Days at Byron Wood and Pye Bank Schools...
Musical
Fun For All – Firs Hill
Over 120 adults and 200
children turned out for Firs Hill Community Primary School’s
biggest event since its launch...
Photography
Day – St Catherine’s
Thirteen participants of
all ages spent a day learning how to use state of the art digital
cameras and software photo packages...
Science
Week Lecture – St Catherine’s
Dr. Richard Walton from
Sheffield Hallam University spoke about science in the home...
Burngreave
Celebrates Learning
Details for the Festival
of Learning and courses, workshops and taster sessions for Adult
Learners' Week...
Issue 40
April 2004
Investing in the
Vestry
The Vestry Hall is an important landmark
for Burngreave and one of the most visible signs of neglect in
our area. New Deal have now committed to spending money on it,
and they hope it will be back in use by September 2005...
Everyone learns at school
Community Education Co-ordinators
have been working since September 2003 in the four primary schools
and three secondary schools that serve the Burngreave New Deal
area...
Also includes list
of some of the activities and courses you can choose from in your
local schools.
Making
room for children
Ellesmere Out of School
Project has settled into the new Community Room at Byron Wood
School, after months of holding the club in the dining hall. It
was open house as mums, dads and children celebrated the move
with a huge party, opened by Councillor Jackie Drayton...
Go for Netball
The Burngreave Sports Project, in partnership
with South Yorkshire Sport and the Arches Project, has been running
coaching sessions for Y5–Y6 girls in local schools for nearly
three months...
Achieving
Results!
There’s a lot going
on to try and improve educational achievement in Burngreave –
such as the Community Learning Campaign, and Community Education
Co-ordinators in schools – but how will we know if all this
hard work is paying off?
Issue 39 March 2004
Spectrum –
learning and more
Rob Smith met with Adel
Hassan, co-ordinator of what is becoming a prime centre of community
activity, education and convenience to those it serves. Adel is
eager to promote a new project, Access to Employment for Arabic
speakers, being developed for those who use this centre.
Coaching and
Training
Coaching opportunities for women, cricket
and goalkeeping training for young people, free first aid course...
Reach
for the Skies!
BNDfC is funding a whole
range of projects which help children with homework, support revision
for GCSEs and important tests, and projects which help children
who are getting into difficulties with school...
Issue 38 February 2004
New
Plan for New Deal: So where’s the money
going?
As Year Three of New Deal comes to an
end, this is the first year they have achieved spending targets.
We bring you news of where the money went last year and what's
being planned for Year Four...
Subsidiary page:
Education
Healthy
eating hits Burngreave and Fir Vale
Six parents at Owler Brook school have
completed a 10 week training course on healthy eating. The training
included exploring healthy foods, cultural foods and reducing
fats and sugars...
Skills
for life
Burngreave Community Learning Campaign
is running a major campaign to help people improve their skills
for life...
Issue 37 December 2003
Spectrum Centre
The former Irish Centre has now been
refurbished and reopened by the Yemeni Refugee Organisation, providing
education, integration, training and employment, and has one of
the biggest IT suites in Burngreave...
Somali children celebrate
study success
IT-Community School and Subject Support
celebrated its success on 22nd October at Verdon Recreation Centre.
For the first time in five years Somali pupils improved their
levels in GCSE and SATs examinations...
Positive reading
Interview with Madge Dale, Community
Librarian and Manager of Burngreave Library...
Opportunities for
asylum seekers
Home-Start Sheffield are looking for
asylum seeker and refugee volunteers to help support families...
Sign up for the Sixth
Form
After many years of work and campaigning,
Longley Sixth Form College is set to open next September...
Sports leaders
for Burngreave
Burngreave Sports Project is running
a course designed to train community workers to include more people
in sporting activities, and six people have already qualified,
with nine more training...
Basketball school
Every Saturday at Fir Vale Sports Centre...
Making dreams a
reality
In August 2003 Fir Vale saw its best
GCSE results ever, with 34% of pupils attaining 5 A–C passes
compared with just 11% four years ago...
At
the heart of the community
A team of Community Education Co-ordinators
has been recruited to develop community provision within the area’s
primary and secondary schools...
BLSA
wants to talk to you!
The Burngreave Language Support Agency
is working hard to ensure local people have access to language
services, as well as providing training to local people to enable
them to develop their language skills...
Introducing… The
Learning Campaigners
The Burngreave Community Learning Campaigners
each draw from different experiences of living in Burngreave to
help adults re-enter education. Campaigner Glenroy Powell said
he learned new skills every day through dealing with people from
different cultures...
Community
Health Educators Programme
As part of the BNDfC Community Health
Educators Programme, the Introduction to Community Development
and Health Course has been a great success...
Issue 36 November 2003
St Catherine's back
St Catherine’s School is open
again and raring to go after two month’s closure due to
asbestos contamination...
Introducing... the Learning
Campaigners
Since the Learning Campaign began, the
18-strong team of assistants has helped over 400 Burngreave residents
kick-start their adult learning. The Messenger called
in to see campaigner Steph Briddon for her views on what it all
means...
Firshill School event
Over a hundred children and their parents,
carers and families joined in craft, sport and IT activities for
Family Learning Weekend at Firshill School...
Children's activities
A call to all Children's Festive Party
Helpers and details of new After School activities at Verdon Street...
Celebration of
skills
Certificates were presented by Lord
Mayor Diane Leek to groups from all over Sheffield...
Black School Exclusion
- A Professional Perspective
A frank and sincere discussion reflecting
two opposing views of why black exclusions may be happening and
why they should not...
A
Driving Force!
An innovative partnership between Burngreave
New Deal for Communities and Nationwide Ethnic Transport Training
will teach 160 local people to drive over the next three years...
Support
for would be interpreters
People in Burngreave who would like
to use their language skills to find work as interpreters or translators
can now turn to the Burngreave Language Support Agency for help...
Issue 35 October 2003
Introducing… the
Learning Campaigners
The Learning Campaigners have been busy
at their relaunch and other events in the area. They’ve
been helping people enrol on courses, but as Imran explained,
it’s not all about getting people signed up...
Tree of learning blossoms
Owler Brook School now offer students
the opportunity to gain NVQs, and this year they have piloted
a course leading to a teaching qualification...
Not
too late to learn!
Around 60 new learners in Burngreave
have already signed up for a range of courses, thanks to the efforts
of the Community Learning Campaign. And even if you haven’t
enrolled yet – it’s not too late to get started...
Half term
fun
Details of up-coming half
term activities for kids...
Celebrating
Play
Groups gathered together
at Verdon Street last month to celebrate the success of the summer’s
play activities...
Issue 34 September 2003
St Catherine’s
contaminated
St Catherine’s School will not
open at the start of September due to asbestos contamination caused
during work on the roof, and the whole school has been sealed
off...
Sheffield Futures
staffing crisis
Sheffield Futures have run into financial
difficulties after just one year. This has led to staffing cuts
resulting in the reduction in opening times of some youth centres...
EMSAG – Making an
impact
EMSAG ran the first Black and Ethnic
Minority Parents’ Education Awareness Day at Sheffield College
– with parents coming to ask questions, raise issues and
concerns...
Introducing…
the Learning Campaigners
This month the Messenger met
up with team member Brendan, to find out what they were up to...
Kashmir Educational
Trust Study Support
The Kashmir Educational Trust came into
existence in the 1980s to raise awareness of the educational and
cultural needs of the Pakistani/Kashmiri community here in Sheffield...
Summer School is a big
hit
Verdon Recreation Centre hosted part
of the Sheffield Multiple Heritage Service music and dance summer
school during August...
Building
a future
People from the Burngreave area are
taking the opportunity to build a career in the construction industry,
thanks to a Burngreave NDfC construction employment project...
Issue 33 August 2003
Somali After
School Club
Hearing of the success this initiative
has had in the advancing of Somali school children within mainstream
education, Rob Smith makes a surprise visit to the project...
SOMDIS, IT on Bressingham
A Somali-led initiative, providing our
community with free internet access, computer training classes,
literacy learning and employment information, and not just for
Somalis...
Somali Education Breakthrough
Based at the Furnival, Verdon Street,
this initiative has classes that offer subject support for children
between the age of 10 to 16 and concentrate on Somali and English...
Look
out Ellesmere!
Over the next few weeks, people living
in the Ellesmere area can expect a visit from teams of Community
Learning Assistants – part of the Community Learning Campaign
team who are working hard to encourage local people back into
learning...
Issue 32 June 2003
Queen celebrates Firvale
school success
Residents from all sections of the community
turned out to celebrate Fir Vale Secondary School being officially
opened by the Queen...
Introducing… The
Community Learning Campaigners
At the recent New Deal engagement event
on Ellesmere Green the Messenger met Mick Twigg, one
of the new Community Learning Campaign team...
Sixth Form go ahead
Longley Park Sixth Form is now clearly
on track to open in September 2004 with planning approval, final
agreement on the £13m+ budget and the Principal Paul Ashdown
and two Vice Principals appointed...
Learning to succeed
Organisers were encouraged and pleased
by the success of the Yemeni and Somali Young Women’s Day
on 25th April at Verdon Recreation Centre which was filled with
the chatter of 100 young women...
It’s my turn now
On Friday 2nd May the Connexions and
Black CARD Youth Conference – “It’s my turn
now” took place at SADACCA...
Com Rec gets its act
together
Money from BNDfC is helping the Council’s
Community Recreation department make a real difference in Burngreave.
New workers and renovation of some facilities hopefully means
activities will be better co-ordinated and there will be more
for our young people to do...
It’s
never too late!
You might be way past school-leaving
age – but it’s never too late to learn. That’s
the message from the Community Learning Campaign which helped
to organise a series of events in Burngreave as part of Adult
Learner’s Week during May...
Issue 31 May 2003
Connecting IT to Learning
At the recent BITPart and Burngreave
Community Learning Campaign event, BITPart presented their work
on the Burngreave Community Wireless Network, and information
about IT training...
A New Beginning For
Firs Hill
Rain wasn’t going to stop the
event of the day, the grand opening of Firs Hill Primary School’s
new sports facility...
Introducing... The
Community Learning Campaigners
The Messenger introduces members
of the team who will be out and about in Burngreave, recruiting
new learners. This month we met Sarah Aref-Taha...
Return
to learn in Burngreave!
18 local people have been employed as
Community Learning Assistants in a major initiative aimed at raising
the number of people with recognised qualifications and improving
access to vocational training...
The Musical Works…
…are looking for people who would
like to work in musical education. They are especially keen to
find people who can teach steel pans, samba, bhangra dancing,
DJ-ing & MC-ing and hip hop/rap, although they would like
to hear from anyone who would like to be involved...
Issue 30 April 2003
Sports for Burngreave
All is set for big developments in sports
for Burngreave with new facilities at Firs Hill Primary School
and an important sports planning event held at Verdon Street recently....
Green with envy
The Messenger follows up on
a local resisent's concerns for the Abbeyfield Park bowling green...
Seheli Drugs Impact Video
Launched
Hundreds of local young people, parents
and local workers packed Fir Vale School’s main Hall for
the launch of a new video about the dangers of drugs...
Catch the Drift 2003
Do you love music and want to learn
more? Do you have an interest in street art?
APOLLO Talent Quest
Are you young and talented? Do you have
a song to sing? Would you like to perform on stage, backed by
a live band?
Minders Inc.
Six local women, Liz, Marjorie, Nikki,
Rashida, Sue and Zahida, all registered childminders, have set
up a childminding co-operative known as Minders Inc...
Burngreave
Mentoring Project
Issue 29 March 2003
Connexions Youth
Conference
Monday the 24th marked the first day
of the half-term holidays and amidst an array of youth activity,
Connexions held a large youth conference bringing together statutory
bodies and local community...
Cruelty to children must
stop. FULL STOP.
The NSPCC appeal for volunteers who
can help build a trusting relationship with young children who
don't experience cultural belonging, who lack confidence and self
esteem. Expenses and full training given...
Ellesmere Children's
Centre
The Multicultural Festive Party, held
in February, is a yearly event in the life of Ellesmere Children's
Centre. But this year it was bigger and better...
Volunteers at St Catherine's
St Catherine's School is appealing for
volunteers to help integrate a generation of young children into
a modern day society that understands all cultures and the full
diversity of the communities we work and live beside...
Citizenship Day at Fir
Vale School
A Citizenship Day was held at Fir Vale
School in a 'Widening Participation' project designed to encourage
young people to think about a university education...
Sure Start Relaunch!
Amanda Boughton-Brown, new Programme
Manager for Burngreave and Fir Vale Sure Start, is interviewed
by Ian Clifford, Burngreave's LEA Family Support Officer...
Celebrate our Roots
Sheffield Multiple Heritage Service
supports mixed-race children and their families and is working
to secure New Deal money to work in Burngreave schools...
Connecting IT
to Learning
Are you interested in using computers
to learn or want to find out about local courses? Then you need
to 'connect IT to learning' with The Burngreave IT Partnership
and The Burngreave Community Learning Campaign.
Issue 28 February 2003
New start for Sure
Start
Burngreave and Fir Vale Sure Start,
the local programme to improve chances for under 4s, hopes for
a fresh start with a new Programme Manager and an apology to local
parents...department...
Book tokens: “Thanks,
but…”
Most children and parents in Burngreave
were pleasantly surprised to receive £10 book tokens this
Christmas, but some have asked how New Deal got children’s
information and where the long term strategy was...
Toy Box & Toy Library
– Abbeyfield House
Toy Box is a resource centre where children,
young people and community groups can loan equipment such as Scaletrix,
metal detectors, stilts, cricket equipment and board games. Some
educational, some environmental, but all fun...
Children's Parties
Over a hundred under 10s celebrated
the first all-inclusive Children’s Festive Party, and in
December over two hundred people from different ages and backgrounds
attended the Burngreave Problem Busters (BPB) annual Christmas/Eid
Present Giveaway...
Issue 27 December 2002
Home secretery David
Blunkett learnt a thing or two when he visited parents in adult
learning at Owler Brook School...
Carolyn Leary, Director
of Sheffield Children's Fund, replies to the article in last month's
Messenger on the Sheffield Identification, Referral and
Tracking project (SHIRT)...
Local childcare organisations
are currently been thrown into chaos due to withdrawal of Sure
Start funding...
Local resident and Youth Worker Islam
Khan was presented with a plaque by the Lord Mayor Cllr Barker
during her visit to the Fir Vale Youth Centre...
Logley Park Sixth
Form
Following a strong community campaign,
Longley Park Sixth Form College became official on 1st November
2002, and plans are progressing for opening in September 2004...
The Lord Mayor of Sheffield,
Cllr Marjorie Barker, has officially launched a mural, which has
been designed and created by young people.
Issue 26 November 2002
Women and the art of
car maintenance
Women who are fed up with having to
wait for a man to change a flat tyre or check their oil are being
offered the chance to learn basic car maintenance skills on a
new training course supported by the Learning and Skills Council
South Yorkshire...
Firs Hill Amalgamation
The sound of running feet preceded a
multicultural wave of small nursery and primary school children
and marks the opening ceremony for the amalgamation of Firs Hill
Nursery Infant and Junior Schools...
Issue 25 October 2002
Permjeet
Dhoot
Introduction to the new Education Theme
Manager for Burngreave New Deal For Communities...
Issue 24 August 2002
Community Learning
Campaign: Another Step Forward
Over 100 local people will be employed
to spearhead a community learning campaign for Burngreave. Local
organisations have endorsed an ambitious proposal to take learning
into the community which is designed to reach out to almost three
thousand local adults over the next five years...
Letter offends
families
200 members of the Somali community
met at Verdon Street Rec to protest about a letter sent to every
Somali family in Sheffield by the Sheffield Area Child Protection
Committee (SACPC)...
 July
2002
Owlerbrook
is a Beacon to the Nation! and we're nearly
there for a sixth form. There are new
chances to learn and there's a cash
bonanza for summer
activities as well as new training
courses.
May
2002
The New Deal are supporting The
Mentoring Project and improvements are underway at the Adventure
Playground as the staff build Castles
in the sky.
April
2002
Royal
approval for Owler Brook School and a sixth
form update.
March
2002
Great news for local
schools and exciting plans for Pye
Bank schools. News of sports
activities, Osgathorpe
Park, a story telling project and a memorial
for child victims of genocides.
February
2002
Sure
Start: More than a Quick Fix?, The
Mentoring Project and Do
you have young children or are you expecting one? all report
on community activities supporting children and young families,
while All
change for Firs Hill Schools and Two
year stay for head bring news from our schools.
November
2001
Because
we're worth it The New Deal votes £1,000,000 for 6th form.
October
2001
The latest news from Byron
Wood School
A new Head for Fir
Vale School
Fir
vale Learning Centre Re-opens
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