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Community Students Participate in Fordbridge Activity Week Back in October the CTC was invited to help out with Fordbridge Activity Week. The week was organised by Alison Lush, who is the Neighbourhood Manager for Solihull Council. Activities that took place to mark the event included a litter pick around Bosworth Drive and Chaplehouse Road, and bulb planting at Brickhill Drive and Woodclose Road. Students from 7 Hewson spent a morning outside of their classroom to help out in Happy Christmas From Dave the Dodo Dave the Dodo designed and built by BTEC Art and Design students back in the summer, for display at this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World show at the NEC, is to be featured this year on the official Solihull Council Christmas card. Since the end of 12 InsideOut December 2010 Cohesion Meriden Park. The enthusiastic group braved the cold weather to spend time planting local woodland edge plug plants. The students were also invited by Park Ranger Adrian Crowe, to plant two Black Poplars to mark twenty five years of Kingfisher Country Park. Our year 7 students were able to learn about plants, wildlife and conservation as well as contribute to the development of Meriden Park. Through working alongside Park Rangers our students have been able to experience first-hand the work that goes on to maintain and improve our local parks. The day was enjoyable and 7 Hewson are keen to pay a return visit to Meriden Park to see the results of their labour, as well as get involved in new projects. June, the model Dodo built out of metal and recycled cans has been on display to the public in Solihull Library. We were formally invited to a celebration evening staged at the Civic Suite in Solihull on 8th September to collect a silver award for the dodo and the garden project. The aim of the evening was to honour volunteers and highlight major projects that have been coordinated by the Environmental Champions throughout the borough of Solihull. It has been a great year for the Environmental Champions with over eighty community based projects being completed, including our Alice in Biodiversity Land garden, which was exhibited at the NEC back in June. Fordbridge Activity Week was so successful that plans are already underway to hold the event again next October. The Mayor of Solihull Councillor Ian Courts choose our dodo to feature on this year’s Christmas card as he felt that it came from a significant project which optimises everything that the Environmental Champions have achieved across the borough. Both the Mayor and Mayoress are featured on the card that is due for release on December 1st. Thousands of cards will be printed with one being posted to every Mayor in the country. A card will also be posted to every significant councilor across Solihull and Birmingham as well as to all the groups that the Mayor has worked with during the course of the year. Environmental Champion Co-coordinator Patricia Willetts, who works for Solihull Council highlighted that she is, “honoured that Dave the dodo has been chosen for the theme for this year’s Christmas card.” BTEC Art and Design Course Coordinator, Victoria Ellwell, commented that she is, “thrilled and very proud of all our students who put a lot of hard work in to the project, and the fact that the council have decided to feature it this year on their Christmas card is a well deserved accolade.” Caroline Moriarty from 13 Phillips stated, ‘I’m quite chuffed and I don’t think anyone in the class was expecting it. It’s good that our DoDo has not been forgotten after the garden show’. Alice Munro, 13 Wong stated, ‘It was an extraordinary opportunity to be a part of the huge project back in the summer and it was great that Dave the Dodo has been made and designed by us. I am very proud of ‘Dave’, and I am overwhelmed that the council has chosen him this year for their official Christmas card design’. Andrew Bird in 13 Kennedy stated, ‘I was shocked and amazed to find out that something we have made out of old cans is going to be featured on Solihull council’s new Christmas card. I am proud of our Dodo and am glad that lots more people will have the chance to see it’. Will Worth in 13 Aslam concluded, ‘I am very shocked that how well known our garden project has become, and I am please with the recognition that we have received for our work. I am extremely proud of our achievement, although having said that, I never want to look at another tin can again’.
BTEC Students Get Scary in Haunting Halloween Event A group of Year 12 BTEC Children’s Learning, Development students met with Clive Adams at Brueton Park, Solihull, for a haunting night on the 31st October. “Haunting Halloween” has been going strong for seven years, and visitors wishing to take part were encouraged to pre book their tickets as the event does sell very quickly. One hundred and eighty five tickets were sold to the general public and tickets were sold out from the first week of September. This is not unusual as Haunting Halloween is a popular fixture on the calendar. After arriving at 4.30 our students along with additional volunteers were given scary attire to get dressed from head to toe. At the small price of £2 the children were able to enjoy fun and games lasting over an hour and a half. The ticket holders were spilt into five groups of 35 children and adults, with the first group starting the sessions at 5.30pm and then on going every 20 minutes with the last group starting at 6.50pm. Everyone arrived on time eager to start a night of fun and games, all dressed up in Halloween costumes. To start off the night one child from every group won a prize for best costume. Little did the visitors to the park know that some of our year 12 students would be participating in the evening’s ghostly activities. When the students arrived they were instructed to hide along the trail around the park and jump out unexpectedly in front of the visitors. Holding themselves back in their places for each of the five groups to approach, the students waited patiently. Along the trail there were two various stop off points where professional story tellers told ghost stories to keep the children engrossed. One of these storytellers being accompanied by two owls was excellent in helping to create a scary atmosphere in the woods. At the end of the trail there was an optional craft session held at the educational centre next to the café. Here the children accompanied by their parents were able to enjoy a hot drink and cake as well as having fun making masks and costumes in the warmth of the classroom. Sophie Magill, said that “I really enjoyed the event; it was a laugh and a good opportunity for us to visit the park. The time we spent there has helped us on our course as we gained hours for work experience, although we did spend four hours in the freezing cold. It was a good event for the children as they seemed to have enjoyed themselves a lot. Some of the children didn’t find our costumes scary at all, and thought of us as trolls because we were stuck hiding under a bridge.” Park Ranger Adrian Crowe concluded that ‘our students have helped make this year’s event more enjoyable for visitors, and it is really important that they did take part’. BTEC course Coordinator Rebecca Griffith confirmed that through participating in Haunting Halloween, her students ‘have gained practical experience of being with children who they have not worked with before. The girls have also benefitted through obtaining more hours for the professional practice component of their course’. Students enrolled on the BTEC Children’s Care, Learning and Development course are required to complete a number of hours of work experience in order to complete their studies. Rebecca Griffith concluded that her students were also able to bond with each other outside of the classroom environment, and as a result. She is keen to encourage her next intake of year 12 students to also participate in this fun, community focused event. Tickets were available to purchase by phone and via the Tourist Information and Arts complex at the central library in Solihull. Visitors wishing to take part in the event were encouraged to pre book their tickets as the event does sell very quickly. Haunting Halloween is a local event organized by the Events and marketing team and park rangers who work for Solihull council. The event was a great success as it pulls the community together and allows the public to visit Brueton Park at night. Solihull council organise a number of regular events that you may not be aware of but may like to take part in. There is a “Solihull Parks Event Guide 2010” that you can pick up from the library. This guide contains information on events for both adults and children from music and festivals to educational activities. For more information, visit www.solihull.gov.uk/events. Nicole White,13 Aslam InsideOut December 2010 13
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