I went to the 4Children Extended schools conference in Bristol and although pretty dull with speaker following speaker in the morning and a rather uninspiring seminar in the afternoon, the information I gathered was very useful.
Matt
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Minister for Young People Kevin Brennan today committed a £31million funding boost over the next 3 years, through the Children, Young People and Families Grant Programme, benefiting nearly 100 third sector organisations.
Full report here
Mark.
Young people are constantly bombarded with junk food marketing. £480m is spent each year advertising products high in fat, salt and sugar on television alone.
Mark
Tuesday February 5, 2008 The Guardian: The lives of young people in Britain are about to come under United Nations scrutiny, writes Anna Bawden
Mark
Fones4Schools is a fun way to get your school involved in caring for the environment at the same time as raising extra cash, simply by collecting old, unwanted mobile phones.
Mark
I’m going to be facilitating this seminar, it looks pretty interesting:
The Learner Voice and Technology workshop will be held on Tuesday 26th February at the Futurelab Offices in Bristol. http://www.futurelab.org.uk/about_us/contact_location
The workshop aims to explore the potential of technology to engage learner voice in the primary, secondary and FE/HE sectors.
We will take as our starting point the methods already being used across these sectors with and without technology.
To help get a feel for this event I would read our Handbook on Learner Voice that we completed 2 years ago… http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/learner_voice.pdf