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Cardiff Council Update: 09 August 2022
Here is our latest update, covering: a wellbeing and participation event for 11-to-25-year-olds in Bute Park tomorrow; road closures and travel advice for events taking place in Cardiff on Saturday; and pupils feel ‘highly valued' at education centre.
Wellbeing and participation pop up workshop for young people 11-25
An outdoor pop up for wellbeing and participation for 11-25 year olds will take place in Bute Park tomorrow, 10thAugust.
It's the result of an Active Involvement Teams consultation that was carried out last year with young people.
The pop-up workshop will cover the areas of wellbeing, participation children's rights awareness, young people's voice, and engagement with rights awareness sessions and consultation with young people.
This workshop will be held in Bute Park Orchard Lawn on 10th August from 12-4pm. Young people can get involved in some fun creative activities that will consist of, arts, iCare boxes, emotional health activities, environmental wellbeing workshops, wellbeing arts and crafts Circus skills, team building, interactive participation games and play. There's no need to book.
Partners who will be there for the pop up are:
- Emotional Health and Homeless team
- Mobile youth team
- Arts Active
- Bute Park environment and wellbeing officer
- Circus Sensible
- Urdd
- Play services
- Ministry of Life - music
This pop up will be assisted by some young volunteers giving young people an opportunity to gain some leadership skills and actively be involved in their community.
The Active Involvement team and partners are looking forward to seeing you there.
Cardiff has made significant progress in embedding children's rights into the Council's strategies and the way in which our young people are supported and nurtured, which closely aligns with the city's ambition to becoming an internationally recognised Child Friendly City, as recommended by the UK Committee for UNICEF.
To find out more about Child Friendly Cardiff please visit:
www.childfriendlycardiff.co.uk
Road closures and travel advice for events taking place in Cardiff on Saturday, August 13
Speedway will be taking place at Principality Stadium; Cardiff City Football Club will be taking on Birmingham City at Cardiff City Stadium and The Welsh Fire will be playing Birmingham Phoenix as part of the Women's and Men's ‘Hundred Series' at Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground.
Read more here:
https://www.cardiffnewsroom.co.uk/releases/c25/29628.html
Pupils feel ‘highly valued' at Cardiff education centre
A report on standards at the Bryn Y Deryn Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) in Cardiff has found that staff have created a "calm and nurturing learning environment" where pupils feel "highly valued".
The report, by Estyn - the Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales - makes a number of positive findings about the PRU, which provides academic, vocational and personal development lessons for 74 pupils aged between 14 and 18.
All the pupils have additional learning needs but the report's summary said the staff knew their needs "extremely well" and were skilled at supporting them to make progress, academically, socially and emotionally. "As a result, many pupils make strong progress when they join the PRU," it said.
Among the activities and subjects offered to pupils at Bryn y Deryn are art and design, computer studies, cookery, emotional literacy, relationship building and substance misuse training while qualifications and awards on offer include Entry Levels, BTECs, Level 1 and 2 Awards, GCSE amd AS Levels, BTEC vocational studies, a Sports Leadership award and participation in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme.
"Pupils experience a wide range of opportunities at the PRU," said the report, "and these experiences allow pupils to gain qualifications which effectively support their next steps well."
Other positives outlined in the report include:
- Many pupils listen attentively to staff and to their peers and follow instructions confidently
- Many develop appropriate reading skills and develop their independent writing skills progressively
- Their creative skills are a notable strength and the artwork produced by a few pupils is of "exceptional quality", reflected in their GCSE results. "Their artwork is proudly displayed across the buildings of the PRU," said the report
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