Boating skills beat boredom; EDGBASTON: Plain sailing for estate's team-building project.Byline: By Poppy Brady YOUNGSTERS are busting their boredeom by messing about in boats in a unique scheme set up by sea cadets Sea Cadets are generally members of a Sea Cadet Corps, a formal cadet organisation of young people with an interest in their national navy. The organization may be sponsored by the Navy or Naval supporter's organisation, such as a Navy League in the UK, or similar organisation. and police. Youngsters from the Waterworks waterworks: see water supply. Estate at Edgbaston are sampling life on the ocean wave thanks to a holiday project aimed at 12 and 13-year-olds. Staff from the sea cadets' Training Ship Vernon, based at Edgbaston Reservoir Edgbaston Reservoir, originally known as Rotton Park Reservoir, is a canal feeder reservoir in the Ladywood district of Birmingham, England. Originally a smaller fish stock pool named Roach Pool[1] , have led youngsters on a series of water-based team-building exercises with help from Ladywood police community support officers Martin Clarke and Ross Denwette. The project is being supported by award-winning community group Birmingham South West group, which has helped transform the Waterworks Estate from a no-go zone to a place where residents are proud to live. A dozen youngsters from secondary schools including Harborne Hill, St Thomas Aquinas, King Edward's School King Edward's School or King Edward VI School is the name of several schools in England, the majority of them founded during the reign of King Edward VI of England. There are also schools named after King Edward VII. , Handsworth and Earl's High School helped build rafts and learned water skills with help from TS Vernon's water training officer Oliver Chambers. PCSO PCSO Police Community Support Officers (UK) PCSO Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office PCSO Pinellas County Sheriff's Office PCSO Polk County Sheriff's Office (Florida) Clarke said: "The long-term aim is for these kids to get involved in something after the holiday, such as making use of TS Vernon which is on their doorstep, or joining rowing or sailing clubs." Officers are also due to take youngsters on a camping day around the reservoir, when they will learn to pitch tents and cook camp food. Coun Deirdre Alden (Con, Edgbaston), who organised the funding, said: "This is an excellent scheme which will help youngsters on the estate get to know police officers as friends rather than enemies." CAPTION(S): MAKING A SPLASH... Liam Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. , age 12, leads the Waterworks Estate youngsters. Picture: Loretta Brennan Photosales No.: LB070807res-1 |
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