Early Intervention Programme

KCB’S Swahili club has developed from a play group to a more serious and focused Early Intervention Programme where children are engaged in meaningful activities to inspire and help create and develop an interest with an aim of providing knowledge, skills and self confidence to enable them make healthy informed choices about their future in a fun filled cultural environment.

The organisation has recently launched the “Learning outside the Classroom” initiative to help raise attainment. Recently the club toured the CBBC experience at the BBC Television Centre, House of Commons, National Science Museum and the Royal Albert Hall........Article continues below the photo

   
The Young people's club donating a cheque towards Bedford Hospital Children's ward. The cheque was donated at a Taekwondo Sparring Session where the club went to support a Kenyan Role Model Lukas Karanja who is a Blue Belt student at the McKnight Taekwondo School in Bedford.

As well as learning Swahili and other cultural activities the organisation has adopted the programme which enables and gives the children opportunity to transform learning and raise achievement. Learning outside the classroom allows participants to learn in context, to learn by practical engagement, and to learn by personal discovery. They can master new skills, work collaboratively with others and develop a better sense of themselves and their potential.

KCB is at the fore front of using the Learning outside the classroom to succeed and is pursuing experiential approach that is practical, dynamic and exciting. The experiences are challenging and powerful learning opportunities.

Feed back and outcome of the above tours is amazing; children have become much more engaged and enthusiastic learners, giving teachers another resource to help bring the curriculum to life with parents reporting significant interest in learning and behaviour improvement. Click here to see more tours

Useful Information for 13-19 year Olds

For a wide range of opportunities for young people aged 13-19 through Arts, Sports and Music services including volunteering opportunities; click on the following useful links;

The National Youth Agency
The Award- The online home of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award in the UK
Young Enterprise- The UK's leading business and Enterprise Education
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Youth Parliament The UK Youth Parliament Website

Global X change programme-
Young people aged 18-25 can spend three months in the UK and three months in another country volunteering as part of a group. Half the group will be from the UK and half from the exchange country (the country where the other three months are spent). Volunteers will live with a host family - and a counterpart from the other country - and “do real jobs that make a difference to people living in challenging conditions.”

VSO volunteers do not pay for anything, but rather fundraise Ł600. They receive a stipend while volunteering and accommodation is part of the program. For more information click on the following link;

http://www.vso.org.uk/globalxchange/volunteer/the_deal.htm

Click here for  information on Apprenticeships in UK.