Published on
25 October 2010 in
Emerging Technology, Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service, Projects and Youth Engagement.
Tags: emerging technology, flip, flip camera, flip ultra, Mersey Fire, merseyside, Merseyside Fire, MFRS, OurOpenSpace, Prince's Trust, readers organisation, rescue, service, Youth Engagement.
Over the past few weeks a Prince’s Trust Team, run through Bottle and Netherton Community Fire Station, have been using Flip Cameras to show what they have been doing. They have been capturing all aspects of their programme so far and have really got to grips with the small yet quality cameras.
The aim of the project is to produce one or more short films at the end of the 12 week programme to inform others about what Merseyside Side Fire and Rescue Service can offer. Next week one of the members of the team will spend his work experience placement with the Emerging Technology Officer at Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, editing and producing a short film. The short film he will be helping to produce will show the Team’s Community Project, an important part of the programme in which the Team work together on a project for and in the Community, in this case refurbishing a room within a Community Centre. This does not only involve manual work such as painting and maintained but a lot of work before hand selecting a project and fundraising. All the different aspects of the project will be shown on the film.
Once the film is finished it will be shown at the Teams final presentation night to show family, friends and professionals their achievements, as well as this it will also provide a useful and insightful promotional tool for the programme run from various locations within the Fire Service.
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After completing the Readers Organisation ‘Read to Lead Training’, myself and two colleagues are going to be delivering two sessions in the Easter Break. We are delivering the sessions to a group of young people from Greenbank Sports Academy.
The Greenbank Sports Academy is operated by Greenbank and is the North West’s leading sports and leisure facility for disabled people located in the Sefton Park area of Liverpool. They provide school holiday activities for disabled children aged 8 and above, their friends and siblings. Over Easter we have two, one hour sessions where we will use ‘The Savage’ as our reading material.
The difference between the Read to Lead sessions and normal reading groups is that the reading is shared. We, as the facilitators, will read the book aloud (members can choose to join in, but there’s no pressure to). This provides immediate engagement with the text, which is enriched by the spontaneous sharing of life stories and experiences as confidence builds.
Follow links for more information. Details of how our sessions go will be posted here soon.
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