23/05/2006
Good Citizenship Event at St Gregory's Primary School
Partners of Citysafe including team members from Safer Neighbourhood Services, Neighbourhood Management Services and the Community Safety Team helped to organise a Gala Day at St Gregory's Primary School in Belle Vale, South Liverpool.The purpose of the event was to introduce younger children (pupils aged 5/6 years) to the concepts of good citizenship and simple awareness messages relating to anti-social behaviour.
All seven primary schools (over 200 year 1 pupils) in Belle Vale attended the event. Partner representatives of Citysafe ran very basic workshops for the pupils, including:
- Liverpool City Council Parks and Gardens - showed the pupils how to plant seeds and plants and how to look after their environment
- Merseytravel - brought a new bus for the children to sit in and gave simple messages about safety on public transport
- Fire & Rescue Service - attended with a fire engine and explained to the pupils simple fire safety messages
- Merseyside Police - brought along the police dogs for the children to meet. Pupils were given information on the work of the police dogs and very basic messages around anti-social behaviour
- Neighbourhood Management Services, Lee Valley Housing and Community Safety Team members gave simple key messages about anti-social behaviour, recycling and how to look after your environment. The teams used engaging interactive activities such as a puppet show and a simple game of bingo and the children were asked about what they understood about asb and their environment.
This is part of a wider programme which Citysafe runs each year within Liverpool South. The programme has been developed to cover targeted activities for four primary year groups (years 1, 4, 5 and 6).
The message for each year remains broadly the same but the activity is different to suit each year group's development stage. The year 1 event is purely on a `getting to know you` basis. The events in year 4 and 5 are aimed at addressing the subject of anti-social behaviour and are deliberately held in late summer before the long summer school break begins.
For further details contact: Gillian.bell@merseyside.police.uk, or Sandra.roscoe@liverpool.gov.uk
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