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Youth and Support Services
The Factory Skatepark is committed to
creating a safe environment for all children and young people, and
encourages healthy lifestyle choices, educational attainment, and life
long learning. This has resulted in the Skatepark’s youth and
community programme, at present this consists of a homework club 4
nights a week, a youth club 3 nights a week and twice weekly computing
for beginners classes aimed at senior citizens.
Homework Club
The Homework club is aimed at primary
school children who would like support when doing their homework, the
club runs Monday – Thursday 4:30-6pm. The club itself is split into
two parts 45 mins of supported learning and 45 mins of free time that
incorporates skating or other fun activities. The club is ran by two
youth workers each day and is supported by several volunteers who
where at one time themselves members of the club.
Youth Club
The Factory’s youth club runs on a Monday
and Wednesday from 6-8pm during school term time, each evening see’s
different activities take place ranging from hip hop dancing and
graffiti art classes to sport and games evening. Each Friday 22 Young
People from the local area are given the opportunity to hire equipment
and use the park between 6-8pm this allows those whom often come from
C.R.F areas the opportunity to access the park on a weekly basis.
Computing Classes
The computing classes that
are run at the factory are slow paced and aimed at those with little
or no computing experience. The programme runs along a standard format
that incorporates.
Beginners Course
Week 1 - Switch On, Mouse Skills,
Introduction
Week 2 - The Desktop and Windows
Week 3 - Word Processing
Week 4 - Word Processing
Week 5 - Word Processing
Week 6 - Internet Introduction
Week 7 - The Internet
Week 8 - E-mails
Week 9 - Shopping Online
Week 10 - Making Cards and Labels
Internet Course
Week 1 - Get more from Google, Searching
Online
Week 2 - Shop Safely Online
Week 3 - Buying Music, Your Pictures
Week 4 - Downloads and Media Player
Week 5 - Common Queries, Jargon Buster
However at present a second
computing class is running and this has 9 participants who have been
attending for almost two years and are now concentrating on digital
photography.
Volunteer Programme
The Factory also runs a volunteer
programme that incorporates many differing strands and with many
different partners, however the main thrust is aimed at empowering
young people to make a difference and allowing them the opportunity to
learn skills that will help them in later life. To this end there are
opportunities available to all in both the sport and youth fields with
sport volunteers being encouraged to partake in the in-house sports
leader award, that gives them on successful completion a nationally
recognised qualification.
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