| Our Area, Our Vision |
| A survey of your local
environment and its resources for your community |
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This
Citizenship project was designed and run by
Birmingham teachers to create opportunities for
schools to improve their local environment.
The primary and
secondary schools who took part in the project
carried out a survey of their own communities,
identifying key features and resources.
The project began
with teacher training events held at Rotunda 15
to introduce the “Mapping the City” resource
pack. The evidence collected by the pupils
has been used to produce action plans of
recommendations for improving their
locality. The project culminated in an
event where they had the opportunity to present
proposals to elected City representatives and
officers of the Council.
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Teacher training at
Rotunda 15 to introduce Mapping the City |
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| Look out
for further details, or for more information
please contact Phil Grierson, Young
People's Parliament, on 0121 303 1276. |
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| Sharing Our Concerns, Sustaining
Our Resources |
| A framework of Citizenship
Conferences |
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| What must
we do so that people living now and those in the
future can enjoy a better quality of life? |
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An
opportunity for young people to debate this and
other questions about the kind of environment we
want for the future. Participating schools will
have the opportunity to take part in a half-day
conference within their area, to be held on the
following dates:
 | 9th November
2000 |
| 15th November
2000 |
| 16th November
2000 |
A City wide
follow up conference will build on and extend on
a selection of the original presentations.
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| For more
information please contact Phil Gierson,
Young People's Parliament, on 0121 303
1276. Or visit our Contacts
page. |
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| Making Our School Environment
Safe |
| Secondary School Councils
- young people's solutions
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| This initiative was
devised as a framework which would encourage
twenty secondary schools to establish a school
council in order to discuss ways of making their
school environment safer. Young people at each
school carried out a consultation exercise, came
up with some solutions and established
priorities in order to access a budget £200 to
carry out improvements.
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| For more
information please contact Phil Grierson,
Young People's Parliament, on 0121 303 1276. |
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