Dreamstore Update

January 6, 2006 in All Articles, Disability, Dreamstore Academy, Results & Outcomes 2006, Royal National College for the Blind by admin

Visual Impairment – website support from work of RNC Angling Club

Barry Morris works as Lead Project Officer for enrichment support at the Royal National College for the Blind. He joined the Academy to provide a more skilled coaching experience for a few of the students at RNC who fished from time to time. Once he understood the potential of the coaching facility he approached Dreamstore for support. The upshot of discussion is the RNC Angling Club.

This is more a web Club than an organisation. Using experience at the College, Barry hopes to provide a web based resource that offers advice and support to those with a visual impairment who wish to fish.

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Respect agenda – families

Alan Webb works for Harlow Council, Essex. He has applied his qualification to a new project meeting the RESPECT agenda, introducing parents to angling and the environment to then bring families together in an outdoor recreational environment. Dreamstore has assisted with the cost of a meeting venue for year one of this project.

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Young people, youth and families together: areas of multiple deprivation and autism

John Brooks is a teacher at Helston Community College, Cornwall. He supports a number of projects, along with his partner Rozy. Rozy completed her Level 2 at the Academy in 2007. In addition to working with young people at Helston he has supported Nine Maidens Centre working with young people and families from areas of multiple deprivation.

Plans for 2008 include support to Falmouth Primary School, with a catchment area similar to Nine Maidens, and summer scheme support to the Dreadnought Centre’s programme working with Autistic young people.

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Every Child Matters – culturally diverse young people

Richard Walker is a school teacher at Margaret McMillan Primary School, Bradford. He has developed teaching ideas around angling and the environment for his year 5 pupils, which included a day out at a local fishery. The School is culturally diverse, though predominately British Asian. Every Child Matters is an important policy framework for Richard’s approach.

Alan Robinson from nearby Lilycroft Primary School, Bingley, attended the 2007 Academy. This means there are two qualified coaches with similar outlooks in the Bradford/Leeds area. Richard worked with the Dreamstore Education Action Zone in 2007 to add a FUNdaMENTAL aspect to learning.

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David Lewis supports Milton Keynes Disabled Angling Club, which has progressed strongly now that there is a qualified coach on hand. Stoke on Trent Disabled Angling Club has similarly benefited from the coaching support of Paul Brammer.

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Alternative learning – youth and immigrant

Breckland Angling Coaching Club, was a club without a core coaching team. The director of the Club, an Education Officer with the GMB Union, recommended seven people for the Academy. A number of this team had never gained a qualification. Our on-course ‘Learning Buddy’ programme provided invaluable support.

The Club has a core team, and a number of coaches who had slipped away, returned once the Club had been invigorated. The Club works with local schools and has a community development programme working with groups with English As Second Language.

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