Inspiring young people involving primary and secondary schools

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• Inspiring young people involving primary and
  secondary schools

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Inspiration

• Think about what inspires you now, apart from
  people? Where do we seek inspiration?
• Eg. Stories, landscapes, places, music
• What has inspired you to change your behaviour?
• Share with group
• Consider the variability of this just within this
  group, never mind across age ranges etc.
• Sowhat inspired you as a kid?
• What types of things could inspire them to change
  their behaviour statistics, research, images,
  film, seeing the effects of their impact
  (accountability) etc.

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Walk to School

• Think of something (anything!) that has inspired
  behavioural change in children and young people

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Walk to School Primary

• Walk to School Week 2007
• 189 Local Authorities
• 8200 schools - 2 Million Children
• Walk to School Month 2007
• 132 Local Authorities
• 5800 Schools - 1.4 Million Children
• WoW every month
• 40 Local Authorities
• 1500 Schools - 300,000 badges
• 70,000 pupils walking that wouldnt have walked
  before!

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What is Step Up?

• Secondary walk to school
• Getting more students walking to school
• Engaging them in a campaign to increase walking,
  improve their local area

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What is Step Up?

• I will work with 5 pilot schools in London this
  year, so keep your ears open for next year!
• Pupil led campaigns
• Improvements to their local environment
• Will be creating resources, events, activities,
  resources

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Who, when, how?

• 2 national coordinators (Sam and Andrew)
• Launched October 2008 in Newcastle
• 150 young people learning to be street activists
  in Newcastle
• Audits, breakdancing, filming etc

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Barriers and Solutions

• 1 What do you perceive as the main barriers
  stopping children and young people walking to
  school?
• 2 Focus on one barrier. Using the resources
  immediately available to you in your work
  context, how could you overcome this barrier?
• 3 Imagine you have unlimited funding and
  unlimited access to anyone, in any sector and
  anything in your local community.
• Now, how would you overcome this barrier?

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Three Top Tips

• 1Identify Barriers
• eg. straighteners
• 2 Consult children and youth and allow for this
  to be actionable
• eg. WoW badge design example
• 3Work together Collaborate
• and network
• eg. The Community
• Partnership Approach