Moorside Junior Wardens

Grove Court and Moorside Primary School Intergenerational Activity

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Many people can experience social isolation in many ways. Some live on their own, and others have their nearest and dearest around them but still experience a sense of loneliness. This is what we had seen with the residents at Grove Court, in Ovenden.

Many older adults were isolated and reluctant to socialise and engage with others due to the fear of covid-19 still being present. Grove Court is a Together Housing Residency with facilities of a large community room and kitchen, yet this was not being used much by the residents.

June Harvey, who runs the Memory Lane Cafés in Calderdale and another volunteer have recently volunteered more of their time to run a weekly Bingo activity every Thursday afternoon for the residents at Grove Court in the community room. This was to support residents to interact and socialise, play a fun game of Bingo, share a brew and a natter and to reduce isolation and loneliness.

Following a meeting with June, Zain (Staying Well worker in North) and Linsay (Community Wellbeing Officer for Together Housing) we decided to explore other ways to engage with more residents in Grove Court out of their rooms to reduce their social isolation.

Skipping forward a few weeks, another meeting was arranged with Paula Howarth (Pastoral Manager at Moorside Primary School) to discuss whether children from the school would like to support the Bingo activity as part of their programme with the Junior Warden Scheme. This idea was well received, and a plan of action was formed.

Fast forward a month, six children from Moorside Primary School attended the Bingo activity with a total of 12 residents attending. This intergenerational activity benefited both generations by bringing a new dynamic into the activity, bringing new energy and conversation between everyone, and putting smiles on everyone’s faces!

We were also delighted to be joined by the amazing Tony Austin, guitar player and musician who plays at the Daisy Chain café at Blackburn House. Tony played a variety of songs from the 1940’s and 1950’s of which everyone played Musical Bingo (crossing out the songs on their card Tony was playing). The children helped the residents in completing the Bingo cards, engaging in conversation, and supporting with handing out snacks and drinks.

Overall, the Bingo was an even bigger success with more people coming out of their own rooms to take part in this activity. As an outcome from this, Moorside Primary School have arranged to send six new pupils down once a month to support in the activity with dates for the next academic year to be discussed in September 2022.

Similar event at the Daisy Chain cafe, picture not related to this article

 

Moorside Junior Wardens Bag It Up Again !!

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This week the Junior Wardens from Moorside Community Primary School helped with the #springclean at Brant Avenue and Moor Lane Park in Illingworth.

The Wardens collected 8 big bags of litter from around the area With Karen Scanlon & Dan Marham from the North Halifax Partnership.



We would like to thank the junior wardens, as well as Karen and Dan for helping with the unpleasant littering.

 

Moorside Junior Wardens: My Neighbourhood 

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On Tuesday 8 February 2022 The Junior Wardens from Moorside Community Primary School took part in a Reimagining Communities  Consultation with Karen Scanlon and Natalie Ratner Community Organiser from the North Halifax Partnership.

The Purpose of the Consultation with the Junior Wardens was to look at what affects them in the Neighbourhood.

A very detailed plan shows how the Junior Wardens can in partnership move forward to improve the local community.

Please look out for the fantastic ongoing work  from Moorside Junior Wardens during 2022.

         

Moorside Junior Wardens at Illingworth Fire Station

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West Yorkshire Fire fighters do more than just putting out fires. They aim to reduce risks to West Yorkshire people and property and deliver prevention programmes to make people safer from fire and other emergencies.

Our firefighters have one of the most respected jobs within the community: responding to incidents, preventing them from happening and protecting people and property in West Yorkshire. Junior Wardens from  Moorside Community Primary School, Ovenden were given the opportunity to visit Illingworth Fire Station to  find out more about what they do, how they promotion opportunities and technical areas they specialise within the daily role of a Firefighter

The Fire Fighters gave the Junior Wardens a fantastic and very informative tour of the Illingworth Station , explaining some of the jobs the fire fighters are called out to and explained how fire fighters are responsible  for taking part in drill training, taking part in scenarios, maintaining, cleaning and testing fire service equipment and performing general station routines.

The Fire fighter let the wardens experience using the fire hose of the engine ,and how they fill up the water that’s kept in the engine . They even gave a call out for the Moorside  Junior Wardens with the blues and twos

Thank you to Illingworth Fire Station at West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service for a brilliant afternoon of fun for more information look at  https://www.westyorksfire.gov.uk/your-safety/

Moorside Junior Wardens in Action Again

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After the recent walkabout and litter pick in January 2018  (https://halifaxnorthandeast.com/2018/01/12/moorside-junior-wardens-clean-up-brant-avenue/) the wardens decided they wanted to highlight the amount of rubbish and dog faeces left in and around the area. The wardens have all worked really hard on creating and developing posters that will remind people to not litter and raise awareness around  picking  up faeces after their dogs.

We can take action in relation to complaints about dog fouling if you know who the person is who is not cleaning up after their dog has fouled, or you know the approximate time the fouling occurs.

Even if you do not know any of the above, but your area is badly fouled, let CMBC know or our new Community Warden Lee Ackroyd know and he will endeavour to undertake patrols and also clean up the worst affected areas.

You can help us by providing as much of the following information as possible:

  • Accurate location, is there a nearby landmark, lamp column or house number?
  • Frequency and time, how regular and at what time does it occur?
  • Description of the dog, for example a male black labrador puppy.

Address and description of the person walking the dog Or and report via https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/community/clean-streets/request-report/dog-fouling/form.jsp?stage=location or contact Community Warden Lee on 0300 555 0266.

The posters will be erected in and around the Brant Avenue area later this month so look out for the fantastic art work created by the wardens from Moorside Community Primary School.

 

Did you spot the Moorside Junior Wardens on Keighley Road?

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Junior Wardens from Moorside Primary School took part in a Speed Initiative alongside Community Warden Ced Oakley, Ovenden Police Ward Officer’s PC Kim McCloskey and PCSO Alice Cordingley.

Karen Scanlon from the Ovenden Initiative said’

“The Junior Wardens really enjoyed the initiative which highlights the speed of traffic on the roads within our community”

The Junior Wardens measured and recorded the speeds of oncoming traffic on the A629 Keighley Road which is one of the busiest roads in the area. All the information gathered will be sent to Calderdale Council.