posted by Andy Garnett, Active Schools Coordinator

UK Rock Challenge® hold events in your local areas across the UK with the aim to inspire, engage and motivate young people to make healthy and positive lifestyle choices. The Rock Challenge® and J Rock™ are excellent opportunities for young people to perform with their school, live on a professional stage whilst encouraging an adrenalin-based high that can be experienced through performing rather than using tobacco, alcohol or other drugs. There are many schools from across Dundee and Angus who participate in these events and we are hoping to expand and attract more schools this year to get involved in this great opportunity. 

Our events are facilitated by The Be Your Best Foundation, registered charity since April 1998 (registered charity number 1077291). The events provide the opportunity for schools and colleges to create dance and drama performances about a theme of their choice- this can be anything from a real life issue such a global warming or a fictional story like Cinderella. The piece must be 5-8 minutes long and set to a commercially available soundtrack.  They then attend one of our local events where they perform their piece front of an audience of family friends and a panel of professional judges.

On Tuesday 19th September registration will open as the Rock Challenge® and J Rock™ tour returns for 2018! Senior Schools, Academies and Sixth Form Colleges can enter from 06:00am whilst Junior and Primary Schools/ Academies can register from 06:30am to take part in one of the region’s most exciting and popular performing arts events.

We are also hosting a presentation to interested schools at the Caird Hall, Dundee on Thursday 31st August 2017. This is a great opportunity to speak to some of the Rock Challenge® team, volunteers and teachers as well as a chance to find out more about our 2018 events, what Rock Challenge® and J Rock™ is and the benefits it brings for the school and its students!

Contact – Rock Challenge® Office
E: events@rockchallenge.co.uk
T: 02392 985710

posted by Amy Hall Gibson, YMI Coordinator

SUMMER HAS WHIZZED BY!

First week in the new term has whizzed passed! We have an exciting year ahead for Angus’s Youth Music Initiative programme.  Please see attached document for more information.  SUMMER HAS WHIZZED BY

posted by Alita Spink, Schools and Learning Support Officer

Ask young people in your networks to take part in this exciting opportunity to connect with Scottish athletes competing at forthcoming Major Games

Ever wondered what athletes do when they’re off camera?  Are they superhuman even in their down time or are they just like us? How do they feel when they’re competing? Do they have a lucky mascot?

As Scotland’s athletes prepare to perform on the world stage at the Winter Olympics, Paralympics and Commonwealth Games in 2018, we at sportscotland will be out across the country in the next few months interviewing these extraordinary people and finding out what makes them tick.

Which is where YOU come in. What would you like to #AskAnAthlete?

It can be anything from the food they eat to the telly they watch to the role models they look up to. We are looking to create a list of 10 questions that we will pose to the athletes and then we will use the answers to create a series of videos that we will promote through social media as the 2018 Games approach.

The authors of the 10 questions that make the cut will have their names featured in the videos.

And you might even get the chance to #AskAnAthlete in person.

How to join in?

Social media  – Use #AskAnAthlete on Twitter to send us your question/s. Try and include who exactly the question is from – first name, age, school/club/community sport hub.

Email option: communications@sportscotland.org.uk

Thanks
sportscotland communications team

posted by Christine Jackson, Schools and Learning Support Officer

Please see the attached flyer for more information:

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posted by Alita Spink, Support Officer, Schools & Learni

We at Families Outside are pleased to release our July 2017 edition of the Bulletin newsletter which covers the work of the organisation over the last quarter.

Bulletin – July 2017    https://www.familiesoutside.org.uk/content/uploads/2017/07/Newsletter-Jul17.pdf

Conference 2017 Outcomes – report on the valued input from both speakers and delegates, and a way forward with Police Scotland in supporting families at the point of arrest.

Assisted Prison Visit Schemes – there have been significant changes to the APVU scheme which will impact the families who use it.  Please read the update to find out what has changed.

Working in Partnership, Raising the Standards – an article on the input of delegates to the recent Prison Visitors’ Centre Conference, where the new National Performance Framework for Prison Visitors’ Centres was unveiled

Family Support Work Case Study – the case study of one of our own Regional Family Support Coordinators who supported a young boy experiencing, not only his uncle being in prison, but also the imminent imprisonment of his dad.

They’ve Been Sent To Prison – the new service card reported on last quarter has been growing arms and legs with buy in now from a number of the new Community Planning Partnerships and also the NHS.  Information on these cards is provided and we will be continuing to drive this cost effective method of “getting our message across”.

Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) 2017 – a report on the annual COPE campaign and where the focus will lie this year.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the Bulletin we would be delighted to hear from you.

And as of next quarter the bulletin will be taking on a whole new format, thanks to our new Communications & Marketing Manager, who has been shaking things (and us) up.

Families Outside Support & Information Helpline: 0800 245 0088

website: www.familiesoutside.org.uk    Twitter    Facebook

posted by Alita Spink, Schools & Learning Support Officer, Schools and Learning

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