Junior Challenges
Junior Challenge
Why?
It is an award for 9-13 year olds living in Clackmannanshire. The award is used to build young peoples awareness of a number of factors including safety, health and the environment as well as increasing their self-confidence.
As part of the Health Section within the award the group decided they would do something on anti-bullying.
What?
The group decided that they would record a song promoting anti-bullying – aimed to send a message to their school that bullying was wrong and that pupils should respect one another. The group then engaged with their school by having an assembly in which the project was talked about and the group’s CD was played, they also shared their CD within their families and close communities.
The group also worked with the theme ‘promoting friendship, this involved thinking about friendship qualities. The group used their list of friendship qualities and incorporated them into a word search which was them issued to all the young people in the upper school.
How do we know it was a success?
The young people felt they had learnt:
• “About friendship”
• “How to behave”
• “How to work together”
• “Coping with my temper”
• “Learning new thing”
• “Talking in a group and saying what I think”
Comments from Headteacher at Sunnyside Primary School, Mr Paul Cleghorn
“The Junior Challenge project has been running in our school for over a year now. The success of the programme is reflected in the children’s involvement in a variety of activities which enhance their social skills, self esteem and peer relationships”
“This project is an excellent example of promoting friendship and respect within a school setting”
Factfile
Junior Challenge is funded by Clackmannanshire Council’s Children and Youth Work Team, Frances Callaghan from Barnardo’s Matrix Project and Local Action Fund (Community Safety Partnership Initiative).
Want to know more?
Contact Alison Young, Children’s Development Worker, Children and Youth Work Team, Clackmannanshire Council alisonyoung@clacks.gov.uk
