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Don’t be pushed around (duet)

spired — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:44:56 +0000

This one is a duet version of don’t be pushed around. It’s a male/female duet – and, of course, young men and young women can both suffer bullying. These jingles were made by Matthew Arnold School in Oxfordshire, UK.

that’s enough!

spired — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:40 +0000

This one of the anti-bullying jingles made at Matthew Arnold School is spoken-word and works really well, I think. I really like the young people all joining together to say: that’s enough!

Don’t be pushed around

spired — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:17:53 +0000

I like the message of this one: it doesn’t really hurt to put yourself first, and ask for a little help. There’s an important point there; because young people suffering bullying are being hurt by other people being thoughtless, selfish and demanding, they don’t want to be those things themselves. They don’t want to make trouble, or put other people out, or put theselves first, even though that’s absolutely what they ought to do.

anti-bullying week jingle

spired — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:09:33 +0000

Pupils at the Matthew Arnold school created this bullying jingle. In fact, they created several, but this was my favourite; the reason being that it concentrates not on the badness of being bullied but on moving on, healing, becoming strong and stepping out of the shadow that bullying has cast over your life.

animations at Carterton Youth Centre

spired — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:19:14 +0000

The worker at Carterton is one of my very favourites, and today I like her more than ever. She sent me a CD containing a set of neatly edited, properly attributed and really amusing short animations as .mov files. None of this oh I must bundle it as a DVD nonsense, no “it’ll need a bit of editing”. It was one of the easiest jobs ever — a couple of transitions, a project title page and away! She also did all the animation work with the young people — reminding me that I really ought to get a simple animation package as it’s extremely accessible technology nowadays, gone are the times when you needed to call in three artists and a film studio, it can all be done on the computer in the office. That said, the person doing the supporting has to be smart, creative and clever, too. She’s all those things. Shelley, you are a star!

animation projects rule the youth centre

spired — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:13:18 +0000

I am delighted to be posting two separate animation projects at the moment. This one, from Bicester Ourreach Project, was done with the participation of MAP multi-arts projects, who do a lot of work with young NEET people (Not in Education, Employment or Training) although I’m not sure that this is with they as I got the media, but the worker delivering the disk (we are still stuck when it comes to successfully sharing or sending large data files like video in any way except hand to hand) had a car parking ticket about to expire so had to dash. He promises more information in an email, so maybe I’ll find out more. In the meantime, here it is:

Lucy for the profiles page

spired — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:39:14 +0000

It’s a little different to the main page one.

Lisa talks youth forum

spired — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:24:39 +0000

Deputy UKYMP Lisa Banerjee on her involvement with the Vale youth Forum.

Tom talks Youth Forum

spired — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:22:09 +0000

Tom on his involvement with the youth forum.

Maria talks Youth Forum business

spired — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:20:43 +0000

Here’s Maria’s take on the youth forum.

Sean on himself and the Vale Youth Forum

spired — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:18:43 +0000

This is Sean talking about the Vale Youth forum.

Julian talks about the Youth Forum’s Website

spired — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:17:00 +0000

This Julian’s take on the website and the Youth Forum.

Vale youth forum web group speak out

spired — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:54:40 +0000

I’ve just been processing videos of young people from the Vale Youth Forum, talking about meeting local councillors, their hopes for the future, taking part in local decision making and more. I especially liked this clip of Lucy talking about how it’s fired her interest in politics; check out the lurkers in the background!

stop, think before you use your winkadink

spired — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:27:54 +0000

This rap about safer sex was produced by a group at Banbury Youth Centre. It’s a lively centre with plenty going on and a good place to go for health information and someone you can trust to talk to. They also have a pretty decent recording studio now, and in celebration, a group of young men made this rap about safer sex and using a condom. Look out for some interesting thoughts, pro-condom lines and deep thoughts about consequences.

Next up: The girls get back to the boys with their perspective.