RBH Community Kids at Work

Designing posters

Our and about on our estate with cameras and notebooks.

Some of the things we like:

• 20 mile an hour speed signs
• Zig-zag markings outside schools
• The park with the new safer fencing
• Houses that are neat and tidy
• The scout hut
• The play area

Some of the things we don't like:

• Graffiti
• Vandalism (some of the trees and sculptures are damaged)
• Paths blocked and pavements not repaired
• Dog dirt
• Cigarettes and packets on the floor
• Broken glass

Our display board showing what we like and dislike and why.

Tea and biscuits with tenants from around the borough.  We asked them lots of questions about where they live, what things adults and children do that cause problems and upset people and the things we could do to be better citizens and good neighbours.

Staff from the Council's Environmental Protection Team joined the class to talk about noise nuisance.  We listened to different sounds and did a quiz about how noise affects people.

We enjoyed the snakes and ladders game.  We decided which stickers described things that a good member of our community would do and we put these at the bottom of the ladders.  We put the stickers that describe the things that a bad member of our community would do at the top of the snakes.  Then we had some fun playing the game.

                                                    We all received a certificate and silver presentation plate:

                                                                      Boarshaw Primary School, Middleton

                Belfield Primary School, Rochdale North                               Woodlands Primary School, Heywood

The best thing abut RBH Community Kids is:

• "Meeting the tenants. We talked to them and found out lots of things. They were really friendly".
• "Everything".
• "Going on the walk and taking photos because it was very interesting".
• "Everything because we had lots of fun".
• "The work, because we learned about the community".
• "Having our certificates".
• "Drawing the pictures".
• "I hope RBH come again because they do good activities"
• "The snakes and ladders game because it was fun, it tells you about the good and bad things that you should and shouldn't do and I won".
• "When we went for the walk. It helped us learn about our community and we should respect it".

Because of what I have learned I will do things differently:

• "I won't drop litter".
• "I won't make a lot of noise".
• "I will try harder to not bother people when I play out".
• "I'll stop kicking the ball into people's gardens".
• "I'll try to help the environment more".
• "Not to play football outside old people's houses".
• "I will look after my estate".
• "I won't steal".
• "I'll try to be a better citizen".
• "That we have to make our estate leaner".
• "Not to break the rules of the community".

And finally.... A lovely thank you from the children at Boarshaw Primary School.

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