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New registrations
Thursday, April 25, 2024 by Sam McCormick | Uncategorized
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Thank you for completing the registration form, the next step is to decide how to pay.
Bank transfer - in full, £30 or set up 3 scheduled payments of £10
Here are our business bank account details.
Someone will confirm your registration within 72 hours of your payment being received. Please contact us if you haven't heard from us by then. Best wishes, The Learning a New Way AQA Unit Award Centre team. |
Easter Fun 2024!
Sunday, April 21, 2024 by Sam McCormick | Holiday Activities
Children from Spennymoor, Newton Aycliffe and the surrounding areas have been enjoying Easter activity sessions packed full of making new friends, learning new skills, and having lots of fun.
We welcomed school aged children to six sessions during the holidays. It was lovely to meet some new children as well as welcoming back those we had met before. Our leaders were particularly proud of how children familiar with the service welcomed those attending for the first time, and all the children showed kindness and encouragement to each other.
Every four-hour session was jam-packed with fun things to do, and the weather was just about kind enough for the children to have some brilliant time outside enjoying a range of activities. Spennymoor children explored their surroundings on a scavenger hunt and a trip to the park, whilst Newton Aycliffe children splashed through muddy puddles on one of their walks.
When the weather wasn’t so kind, indoor games were the order of the day as well as a choice of creative activities, including making spring pictures, cress heads, decorating tea light holders, windchimes and making (rather fiddly) dangly leg sheep! We also had some fabulous creations during our Lego challenges.
All the children enjoyed a meal and snacks during each session. The ‘make your own’ lunch station was a particular hit in Spennymoor, with children able to try new foods and learn food preparation skills. In Aycliffe the budding chefs tried their hands at making their own pizza, followed by a fruity pudding!
Across the six sessions we provided 111 meals, of these 75 meals were provided to children in receipt of benefit related free school meals (funded via Durham County Council) and 36 to children, whose parents had paid a small fee for their child to attend as they did not meet criteria for a free place. We were able to subsidise the cost of the paid places using National Lottery funding, working to ensure children did not miss out.
We asked parents and children for their feedback on the sessions and we received some wonderful comments, we don’t have room here to share them, but one that made us really smile was from a parent who told us their daughter was….’so happy, she said “I would like to be there every time when it's available”, she loved it so much, thanks to you all, to make my kids happy and feel like heaven.’
The table below gives a summary of how the sessions helped…
We would like to say a big thank you to all the families and children that helped to make the sessions such a success, and our funders too, Durham County Council and the National Lottery.
Project Worker – YouthZ
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by Sam McCormick | Job Opportunities
Project Worker – YouthZ
YouthZ is a new youth group for 11-14yr olds to run in Meadowfield, Durham on a weekend. Our aim is to promote healthy relationships for young people, who missed key personal development during the formative years because of Covid-19 lockdowns.
We are looking for an experienced support worker to assist in the running of the new YouthZ group. The ideal candidate will have experience of working with children, ideally in this age bracket and will likely come from an educational background. A key element will be to engage with the young people attending to encourage long term attendance and participation. They must be passionate about providing a strong youth provision, able to work on their own initiative and lead by example. There will be monthly offsite visits to a local outdoor education provision and so the individual must also be happy to work outside in all weathers. We will be working closely with other key organisations and so the ability to be flexible and communicate well with both other professionals and young people and their families is vital.
Key responsibilities:
- To build positive relationships with the young people from a range of backgrounds, and their families.
- To help young people who have additional needs, or supporting those who feel less confident.
- At times you may be asked to lead an activity with a small group of children separately to the main group.
- To support the education aims of our project, and support the external visitors who will be working with us to deliver these.
- To help keep accurate records of attendance and training logs.
- To work with the lead coach to develop relevant holiday activities for the group, as an extension of this project.
- To promote responsible & respectful behaviours by modelling these themselves.
- To work at all times within the remit of our policies and procedures, specifically safeguarding, confidentiality, risk assessment and our Equal Opportunities framework.
- This project will be a pilot project, and involvement with the development of the programme will be encouraged.
Candidate requirements:
Candidates must have an enhanced DBS to work with children, or be willing to apply for one and references will be sought.
A clean driving license is essential, and access to your own transport desirable.
Qualifications in Youth Work are desirable, though other qualifications will be considered especially in conjunction with direct worked experience.
Safeguarding training and a paediatric first aid qualification are also desirable.
Full training will be given with regards to the educational aspects being delivered and with regards to our own policies, as mentioned above.
Job Specifics:
Fixed term contract – 39 weeks over a year initially (mostly term time, exact dates will be provided).
Position funded by National Lottery Funds for All – rate is £25 per session, project funded by Mid Durham AAP. Though this fixed contract is for 2hrs/week, there will be the opportunity of additional youth work, during the school holidays, at various locations across Durham CC and availability for this is essential.
Hours: 2 hours Sunday, 11.00-13.00pm, additional holiday rate of pay £12/hour.
To apply please complete our informal application form here
Closing date for first recruitment round: 21st March, 8pm.
