The Commonwealth Secretariat and National Youth Agency are running ‘youth work week’ this year from 3rd to 9th November, designed to celebrate the positive work which people who work with young people, and young people themselves, do around the theme of ‘skills for life’.
The Digital Commonwealth project is all about developing digital media literacy skills and throughout the last year we have been working with young people in schools and youth groups all over Scotland to deliver workshops in blogging, video, audio and social media based around exploring the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and the wider Commonwealth themes of people, place, culture and exchange.
We thought that Youth Work Week would be a lovely opportunity to showcase some of the wonderful work which young people have produced as part of the project; these all demonstrate and highlight some of the many skills for life which have been gained as part of the process of helping people to create their own online content rather than just ‘consume’ other people’s work, especially with the learning opportunities around a major event like the Commonwealth Games. Here are just some of the many project examples.
Teamwork and collaboration skills
Many school clusters worked together on transition initiatives to make moving between primary and secondary school easier. Pupils worked as small teams or as a larger class group to collaborate on a common project, taking on different roles to help make the project work, as can be seen in this work in Burghead (Moray Council school cluster).
