Whole Education

Youth Challenges

The Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards are a project based approach to education and are available through youth organisations, schools and educational projects. In order to achieve an Award, young people must begin a project which requires them to take on increasing levels of responsibility for their work, helping them to develop a sense of ownership over their activities and the learning involved. The Awards enable young people to build self-awareness, self-esteem, communication and negotiation skills and teach young people how to work with others in teams.

Cycle-Ops' Music Project

Cycle-Ops Adventure Club meets every Wednesday in Tameside. Young people enjoy a wide range of activities here and the group is working towards their Youth Challenge Awards, taking part in a number of activities around the Every Child Matters theme. For the ‘Stay Safe’ element, the young people decided to write and perform music about the estate where they lived. Music workshops gave the young people training in how to operate sound and mixing equipment in a recording studio. The young people wrote about their experiences of their estate and the issues they faced as young people growing up there. Not only did the project allow the young people involved to practice team working and communication skills, it gave the children the opportunity to talk about the way in which crime and drugs on the estate had affected them and to think about the negative ways in which crime could impact on the lives of other people.

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