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| Promoting Positive Behaviour | | This programme allows young people to explore issues relevant to them in their local community. It increases their awareness of enterprising behaviour by actively developing solutions to the key issues they identify in both their school and community and latterly globally.
This programme involves community partners such as the police, youth workers, community activists and businesses etc. It helps address issues such as antisocial behaviour and develops a sense of responsibility for communities, raising awareness of economic and social cohesion. Students work closely with community partners and are encouraged to reflect on how their behaviour can positively affect their local communities.
It addresses key outcomes relating to citizenship and can be run in a number of different ways to suit each circumstance, as a one day programme, or as a transitional programme with feeder schools and then a follow up in secondary schools.
Promoting Positive Behaviour PDF |
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| Promoting Enterprising Behaviour | | The programme explores what being enterprising is and how young people can become/be more enterprising. Enterprise skills, attitudes and concepts are developed through engaging students in developing actual ways to propose improvements, development or change in their local communities and schools. The scheme develops confidence and encourages team working, creativity, managing risk, communication, presentation skills, decision making and showing initiative. |
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| Active Enterprise/ Co-operative and Social Enterprise | | Bringing enterprise to life this programme challenges young people to look at developing a business from a practical perspective. Using a toolkit of co-operative methods, working in groups they will develop, plan, present and implement their business idea.
This programme is flexible and can be done either as a one day exploration of concepts and ideas or a three day event culminating in a trade fair of their goods with funds raised going to their nominated cause.
Active Enterprise/Co-operative & Social Enterprise PDF |
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| Co-operative and Social Enterprise Masterclass | | The aim of the classes are to raise the awareness in young people that they can be ambitious and enterprising in a value based context, this will explore the use of a multiple bottom line approach to the development of social enterprise and co-operative business. Young people will also practically explore the benefits of the co-operative model (value based) such as the promotion of innovation and creativity through democratically controlled structures.
The sessions offer a first steps engagement to the concept of value based enterprise. This will include an exploration of co-operation in a global context and use learning methodologies which support critical thinking, explore risk taking, encourage team working and provide the tools to plan, organise and present. |
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| Peer Mentoring | | FQN work with older students using a training programme which has been successfully developed with year 11 and 12 students. The programme will give them the tools they need to support the social, emotional and learning needs of younger students.
The training is based on co-operative methodologies and multi-tasked activities, which provides student mentors with a portfolio of strategies and tasks which are fun to use with their mentees. |
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| Positive Playgrounds | | Co-operative methods, activities and games can all help to make your playground a more positive place for pupils to be.
The sustainable approach of FQN includes training for midday supervisors, teachers and key stage 2 pupils, enabling a holistic approach to be nurtured. The activities require little equipment, are fun and, of course, encourage co-operation |
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| Think Global,
Act Local | | The day will focus on the developing the understanding, skills and values that young people will need if they are to participate fully in ensuring their own and others wellbeing and make a positive contribution both locally and globally.
This programme of activity will:
- Increase awareness of the co-operative difference on a personal, community and global level (discussing choice, fair-trade, citizenship etc , all from a cooperative perspective)
- Have students explore connections with their own lives and people living far away, investigate how they can be enterprising and make a difference.
- Parents/children/staff/trainers will work together to discover the benefits of applying co-operative values in real life contexts
- Pupils will work in groups to produce a 5 minute presentation to promote the message ‘think local act global’
The programme has been developed to give a deeper understanding of the role young people play in a local, national and global context the session will be underpinned by the use of learning methodologies which support critical thinking, explore risk taking, encourage team working and provide the tools to plan, organise and present.
Think Global, Act Local PDF |
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| Motivational GCSE Preparation | | Working with year 10 as they embark on their final year at school this programme will introduce students to ideas that will help them to prepare for their final year of GCSE studies.
Themes include:
- Identifying forms of preparation for exams
- Encourage students to take responsibility for learning
- To help students identify and acknowledge their skills
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| Education – Teaching Staff |
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| Challenges of Being a Manager | | A development day which will celebrate your existing expertise as a manager and provide you with a comprehensive toolkit of management strategies which you can use with your peers in your work setting.
The programme explores:
- What makes a good manager
- Management styles
- Managing a team and relationships
- Managing meetings, appreciating different roles
- Managing conflicts
- Managing change
- Taking it back, menu for change
This programme allows participants to review and reflect on the issues relevant to the education sector and develop practical strategies by pooling their expertise with others.
Challenges of Being a Manager PDF |
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| Co-operative Mini Methods | | A whistle stop tour of the co-operative learning toolkit easily incorporated into an inset or staff development day.
This session can be run as a 1 hr, half day or a full day session or as a series of sessions.
Co-operative Mini Methods PDF |
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| Voluntary and Community Sector |
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| Challenges of Being a Manager | | A development day which will celebrate your existing expertise as a manager and provide you with a comprehensive toolkit of management strategies which you can use with your peers in your work setting.
The programme explores:
- What makes a good manager
- Management styles
- Managing a team and relationships
- Managing meetings, appreciating different roles
- Managing conflicts
- Managing change
- Taking it back, menu for change
This programme allows participants to review and reflect on the issues relevant to the voluntary and community sector and develop practical strategies by pooling their expertise with others.
Challenges of Being a Manager PDF |
