Good Citizenship and the Curriculum for Excellence.
Aurora-Pathfinders have been working hard over the last few months developing further our programmes for schools. The work we have been doing is designed to comply with the requirements of the Curriculum for Excellence. Our new programme has been developed in conjunction with staff at Abronhill High school at Cumbernauld and is modular in design. While each module is stand alone, the skills learned are built upon on each subsequent module and can be used by schools to supplement their own activities. The modules can also be used together to form an excellent good citizenship package, an extremely useful programme for schools and young people. The theme running through the modules is teamwork and its importance. Young people are expected to form teams, get together and work towards common goals. At the end of the modules there is the opportunity to stage a showcase event highlighting the good works of the pupils to friends of the school and parents. A list of modules follows with a short descriptor of each one.
Teambuilding
Our classic original event, a series of themed activities designed to get young people forming together into teams, getting to know each other and recognising the importance of working together. We recommend in any combination of modules that this one is essential and is carried out first. It is excellent as a stand alone event for merged schools where pupils don’t know each other or for new prefects from different year groups.
The spiders web causes a few problems
Communication
A new module based on the principles of communication. Did you know that 53% of communication is non-verbal? This module gets young people thinking. We provide resources that are interesting and thought provoking. The highlight of the module is for each team created to begin work on a specific project. The project may involve multimedia, video or the arts and will have to be completed within a set timescale. Work has to be planned, time managed and the principles of teamwork applied.
Entrepreneurialism
Do you have any budding Tom Farmer’s or Michelle Mone’s on your school role? This module helps them and you find out. We explain the principles of enterprise to the students and ask them to pick an enterprise they think they could be good at. The enterprise can be social or commercial .We give them business tools to analyse their ideas and their markets and ask them as a project, to come up with a business plan. After they have created their business plan we come back and subject them to an expert panels scrutiny. Ever watch Dragon’s Den?
Leadership
Are good leaders born or made? We believe good leaders are created through knowledge and experience. We use examples of great Leaders of the past including Ghandi and Ernest Shackelton, one of the greatest Leaders’ of all time and present the young people with the dilemmas that these individual faced. How would they perform in similar circumstances?
Good Citizenship
What is Good Citizenship and what does it mean to the young people themselves. They are asked to work this question out within their teams and to discover their own answers. Each team is given a programme to work on within the school community and in their local neighbourhood. They are taught the importance of stickability and the benefits of opting in to society. The task of the team is then allocated and works begins on the individual projects assigned.
TeambuildingOur classic original event, a series of themed activities designed to get young people forming together into teams, getting to know each other and recognising the importance of working together. We recommend in any combination of modules that this one is essential and is carried out first. It is excellent as a stand alone event for merged schools where pupils don’t know each other or for new prefects from different year groups.
The spiders web causes a few problems
Communication
A new module based on the principles of communication. Did you know that 53% of communication is non-verbal? This module gets young people thinking. We provide resources that are interesting and thought provoking. The highlight of the module is for each team created to begin work on a specific project. The project may involve multimedia, video or the arts and will have to be completed within a set timescale. Work has to be planned, time managed and the principles of teamwork applied.
Entrepreneurialism
Do you have any budding Tom Farmer’s or Michelle Mone’s on your school role? This module helps them and you find out. We explain the principles of enterprise to the students and ask them to pick an enterprise they think they could be good at. The enterprise can be social or commercial .We give them business tools to analyse their ideas and their markets and ask them as a project, to come up with a business plan. After they have created their business plan we come back and subject them to an expert panels scrutiny. Ever watch Dragon’s Den?
Leadership
Are good leaders born or made? We believe good leaders are created through knowledge and experience. We use examples of great Leaders of the past including Ghandi and Ernest Shackelton, one of the greatest Leaders’ of all time and present the young people with the dilemmas that these individual faced. How would they perform in similar circumstances?
Good Citizenship
What is Good Citizenship and what does it mean to the young people themselves. They are asked to work this question out within their teams and to discover their own answers. Each team is given a programme to work on within the school community and in their local neighbourhood. They are taught the importance of stickability and the benefits of opting in to society. The task of the team is then allocated and works begins on the individual projects assigned.
Bridge Building, solving the puzzle
Aurora-Pathfinders will work with your school to tailor an individual solution to your needs. We are very flexible. All our modules are fun but with a hard edge of reality. Discipline is self-regulating within each team who quickly discover that they have to pull together if they are to perform successfully. If you would like to find out more about our programmes please don’t hesitate to give us a call. We are happy to call at your school to discuss your requirements at no obligation. We can be contacted on: