News
dreamwall skydive ahhhh
On the 12th September 2010 part of the dreamwalll team are doing a skydive for our young people. Alex Cuppleditch, Ian Gosling, Brenton Watson, Nancy Bull, Roybn Parker and Kelly John will be taking part. We will be doing a tandem jump out of a plane from 12,000ft of which 5,000 will be free falling, are you scared i know i am!!!!! We should reach up to approximately 120mph on our decent!
If you would like to sponsor us for taking part in a death defying act please go to the link below and choose and search for one of the dare devils staff that have taken on the challenge Donate to dreamwall (make sure you type in surnames to ensure you are sponsoring the correct person)
Brenton has been working very hard to raise money for the sky dive. Why not click here for further information about Brenton and his journey towards completing this task.
dreamwall are working with the S*TAR project
On the 17-19th February and 26-28th March, workers from the S*TAR (Southampton Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Counselling service) ran informative and interactive sessions with a group of girls on a dreamwall residential. The sessions included work on safe and positive relationships, as well as sexual health awareness.
As a result of the success of this session the S*TAR project linked us with two sexual health nurses from Southampton who delivered an advice and guidance session on safe sexual health.
The dreamwall staff were extremely pleased with how the sessions went and look forward to establishing a firm relationship between dreamwall and the S*TAR project in the future.
The New Financial Year Success
The new financial year has started extremely well for dreamwall with the team securing contracts with
- Southampton
- Hampshire
- Hampshire Post Adoption
- Carers First
- Preventing Youth Offending in Portsmouth (PYOP)
- Catford High School
- Family Inclusion Project (FIP)
C4EO: Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children's and Young Peoples Services
C4EO is a DCSF sponsored consortium that aims to create a central hub of knowledge that provides local, regional and national evidence of what works when it comes to facilitating the growth of children and young people.
dreamwall has recently been successful with their application to C4EO and thus have again been assured of the positive contribution made towards the lives of the young people that we work with. dreamwall's account is situated under the subheading 'Vulnerable (Looked After Children)'. It can be found by following the link below.
The start of an exciting journey: Social Pedagogy Style
On November the 27th 2009, the Executive Founder of dreamwall Brett Rennolds attended a networking event set up by the organization ThemPra. The aim of this event was to bring people from all over the country together to understand social pedagogy, share experiences and opinions and work together to help the UK turn a corner in the way in it approaches young people. This was the first event of its kind and can only be described as an unprecedented success, with Brett commenting
" One of the best events I have ever attended. The European pedagogues really understood what dreamwall was about... "
So the question is, just what exactly is Social Pedagogy?
It has been described by an early German pedagogue as
" the Social aspects of education and the educational aspects of social life constitute this science (Social Pedagogy)"
(Paul Natorp 1904)
In short to the best of my understanding, Social Pedagogy is concept implemented extremely successfully in European and Scandinavian countries. It emphasizes that human relationships should be based on equality and openness not on supervision and hierarchy and argues that education is a social function as well as being for academic purpose. A social pedagogue (an individual working in a social pedagogy way) will address the whole of a young person, not just specific characteristics, occupy the same living space and become a secure adult base in the young persons life. There is far more to it than this, if you'd like to find out more,
this link is very informative.
Matt@dreamwall.org.uk