BY MUZAINA 9V
The Alperton Summer Festival
is an exciting new festival due to be held this July, organised by the
Northfields project. This has brought about some excellent opportunities for
students at Alperton Community School as they have the chance to be selected to
be an ambassador for the school in which they will be helping to contribute to
the festival.
During this festival many
competitions will be held. Students will help run and present the wonderful
2018 Alperton Summer Festival. This is a great way for students to experience and
show their skills in media, art, design technology and drama. In the Easter break
they will be creating posters and flyers in workshops for the event.
Twelve students across
different year groups, for a variety of departments in the school, will be
nominated to become the official Alperton Ambassadors. Being on the youth panel
will allow them to experience many new challenges and learn new skills, as they
will receive training by Northfields. This is a great opportunity to be a part
of something that will have a positive impact on the school, students and the community.
Northfields
are a company working on a major new development along Beresford Avenue, near
to the upper site. They are planning on building lots of new houses and
community spaces to help regenerate the area.
We asked the representatives of
Northfields, who have been informing us about the project in assemblies, why
they feel is it such a great project to be involved in.
1. In
what ways do you think this project will help the school?
The aim of the project
as a whole is to get the voices of the young people of Alperton and the
Alperton Community School heard in their local community, especially with
regards to designing activities for the 2018 Alperton Summer Festival which
will showcase their skills and passions and everything that is great about this
community. The Alperton Ambassadors will be the dedicated panel that will
represent and support their peers in achieving this.
2. What
will students achieve through this project?
Selected students from
a number of key school departments will be able to co-design activities that
they would like to run and present at the Festival. The Alperton Ambassadors
will be trained up and empowered to facilitate the co-design workshops as well
as the advertising campaign to get as many people from the local community to
see their work as possible!
3. How
will this project benefit the community as a whole?
Future Northfields is
also running a number of other initiatives in the area, within other schools
but also cultural organisations, which aim to get as many people from the
community to come together and share their vision and ideas for the Festival.
What we ultimately want is for this Festival to create stronger links across
the whole of the Alperton community and to ensure that all individual cultures
and heritage are represented and celebrated.
Make
sure you speak to your teachers about getting involved.
The
deadline for the art competition, in which students get to design their dream
summer festival, is Friday 16th March. Students have already been
attending lunchtime clubs to work on their designs. We’re looking forward to
finding out who the winner is and to see the best designs.
Keep
an eye out for updated stories about this project and the experiences of the
selected ambassadors.
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