Those with 16 year olds.

minimacka

susancs wrote: »

The yr 11 children in my daughter's school have been offered an NCS course which is £50 for a weeks residential course. She can't do it as she will be away with my parents. She has however done a St John's Ambulance First Aid course so far at no cost (which would have been included in the ncs course).
http://www.ncsyes.co.uk/

My son is doing this with his school, we have been to a meeting about what they are going to be doing and it looks such fun, for the first week they are away Mon-Fri doing outside activities, then the second week Mon-Fri they are staying in either halls of residence or outside camping and they have to cook for themselves, then the third week is a 30 hours comunity project which they spend days away. They get all food, transport and overnight stays included in the £50 which is such a good price.

pigpen

Mine don't eat much.. my 17 year old just finished college so I have 2 of them here now. (he is filling his time on pc and coughing up his lungs at the moment and whatever else he is bossed to do)

DS2 has had a bowl of cereal a couple of slices of toast and a bacon butty most days.. obviously I still cook dinner

DD2 has had a bowl of cereal then got a dish of leftovers or pasta and chicken on a night and is rarely seen in between.. coffee consumption has rocketed though

jellyhead

shop-to-drop wrote: »

He wants a permanent weekend job and realises he is unlikely to get anything to start before September. He was unable to look before as they won't consider anyone before GCSE's are finished. Work experience well if nothing else he can spend a week at his dad's work.

Don't mind spending money on a week away at camp etc as we are not planning a holiday. Would like some recommendations though as concerned that these are normally geared up for younger kids.

He would spend a lot of time 'making music' on his PC which is his main hobby ATM but he has outgrown xbox for some time now.

My 16 year old has signed up for a music tech course at college, so he's playing his guitar and doing a bit of reading around the subject. He's doing my paper round, and will go and do some more work experience at the place where he did his year ten week of work experience. Is that an option?

He signed up for activities during the final week of school too - the year 11s were allowed to take part, but not many of them chose to.

Also, he has signed up for NCS, as mentioned by susancs. It will take a month, and consists of 2 mon-fri residential courses and then around 2 weeks of planning a community project and delivering it. The final 2 weeks are local so he will be getting the bus or cycling to the community centre.

They reckon that the course is worth more than 1k, but I only paid £35 for it. It's usually £50 but they are only charging £35 at the moment, I don't know whether that applies to all providers or just the local ones here.

Some of the courses are at PGL camps! Mine's going to two council-run places where they will take part in lots of exciting outdoor activities. Transport to the two residential courses and meals are included, and they get a certificate at the end, so it's something they can add to the CV. The community project or volunteering might lead to further volunteering too. It's available to all 16 and 17 year olds whether in education or not. It's not just a holiday, they have to do the community project too so it looks good on a CV and I think it's a fantastic opportunity for my son :T

System

if I didn't feed my son he'd have two bowls of cereal on a morning and the same for tea.

He's pretty skinny at the moment. Although i'm his Mum i'm not his slave. He gets his evening meal cooked for him but that's about it.

Saying that, he always washes up his bowl/plate so I cant complain.

shop-to-drop

Thanks for all the useful replies.

He has a few things lined up now. This week he has 2 days at school for sixth form open days.

He then has 2 days work experience at Tesco hopefully he will make a good impression and when a part time job comes up he will be considered. If nothing else it will be something to add to his CV and give him an idea of working for a living.

He has also signed up for National citizenship programme. I believe that is over a four week period so will fill a lot of time.

His dad is also arranging some work experience for him.

We will have some days out to London as well as local and are looking at arranging a few days to Liverpool.

Anyone know of any learning to drive programmes for 16 year olds we have looked at Pgl but as it is for 13 to 16 year olds he is concerned it will be mostly younger kids. Any experience of these?

Kathy535

DD doesn't come out of her bedroom now so I don't expect to see her until the end of August. I do occasionally check in the pit of doom to see if she's been crushed by a pile of falling clothes or suffocated by the smell of her unwashed bed linen. I'm not sure whether it's a good or bad thing that she is not at all acquisitive and therefore doesn't see the need to work or earn money in order to buy stuff. Talking to her friends' mothers she is not unusual.

katepnlo

Well my daughter worked both days on th eweekend. Now has a week work experience and then 2 lunch times to cover at work. The following week is work experience again...
She recons she is going to a party on Saturday night... I have a feeling she will understand the pure bliss of collapsing on the sofa with a coffee by Saturday afternoon!!

In all seriousness though.. very proud of her. She really is growing into a well rounded hard working young lady.

My younger daughter on the other hand.. she is yet to show any enthusiasm for anything past gaming on the pc.

FatVonD

rev229 wrote: »

Lunch today was a sandwich made with 12 fishfingers and 2 sausage rolls:eek:! He left the kitchen quite clean!

I've just been reliably informed via telephone that mine has grilled cheese onto one side of a slice of pitta bread and tuna mayo onto the other side before sticking them together. I can only imagine the mess :eek:

Maysie

my daughter is doing ncs as well she went off today on a residential w at a pgl centre this week. lucky for us we signed up early (although they lost her details right faff but a moan on their facebook page sorted it ) and if you did in oxfordshire before june they funded the £50 so free for her. she is nervous she doesn't know anyone doing it.

minimacka

Maysie wrote: »

my daughter is doing ncs as well she went off today on a residential w at a pgl centre this week. lucky for us we signed up early (although they lost her details right faff but a moan on their facebook page sorted it ) and if you did in oxfordshire before june they funded the £50 so free for her. she is nervous she doesn't know anyone doing it.

That is good we paid a reduced fee of £35 for my son if you booked before the end of May, he goes away on his residential on 29th July.