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Young Dancer Project Ends - New Interim Youth Services Committee |
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The Young Dancer Project started on 15 March 2010. This was a Scottish Arts Council (now Creative
Scotland) part-funded project, to support Scottish Branches in engaging children
and young people with SCD and share learning across the organisation. The
project was part of a wider RSCDS strategy to recruit more young dancers through
Scottish schools, with broader links to health, exercise and reducing obesity.
Following interviews with representatives of various
Scottish Branches, a logical framework and strategy was developed,
indicating
the key activities which would take place during the project. If you
would like
to read this logical framework, you can download it here.
Creative Scotland agreed to continue funding the Young Dancer project for a further year and the project finally ended in March 2012. You can read the many guidelines and other information produced during the course of the project under 'young dancer project guidelines'. An Interim Youth Services Committee was established to continue the work of the project.
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Interim Youth Services Committee |
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The Youth Services Committee (YSC) will be appointed formally at the AGM in November 2012. In the meantime, the Interim Youth Services Committee (IYSC) would like to ensure that Branches share information about their activities and share information about “what works” in engaging young people with SCD.
Your help really is needed. Please tell us how you engage young dancers, and share your useful teaching tips, information on “what works” or indeed, “what you should never do”! You can contact the Committee on
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. Or if you're a young member and have ideas about activities and services that the Committee could run, do let us know. Members of the IYSC are Roy Bain (Convenor), Deb Lees, Jim Stott, Philippa Revill, Fiona McIver, Adam Brady, Louise MacDougall and Anne McArthur.
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Young Dancer Project Guidelines |
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Various documents and guidelines produced during the Young Dancer Project can be downloaded here.
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Strategy for Branches |
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The Young Dancer project supported several Scottish Branches to get more SCD activities off the ground in the Branch area. As part of this support, a Branch Strategy was produced. The idea was that Branches would use the strategy to decide which activities are feasible for a Branch to undertake, depending on each Branch's possibilities and on the area in which the Branch operates.
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Active Schools |
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One way to get more children dancing is to approach those
responsible for children’s physical education and ask for their input and advice
on promoting and organising SCD activities in and outside of schools. In
Scotland, there are 680 Active Schools Coordinators (they are like physical
education/activities coordinators), responsible for getting children active in
schools across Scotland.
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General Project Information