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Neighbourhood Wardens Award Pupils for their Designs on Anti-Social-Behaviour!
Sheffield Homes’ Neighbourhood Wardens will be attending an awards ceremony on Thursday 6 December and presenting pupils from Birley Community Primary School with prizes after asking the children to design a poster to help stop various forms of anti-social behaviour.
The team of four wardens are a new addition to the south east of the city following Sheffield Homes roll out of the popular Neighbourhood Warden Scheme. They have been actively helping to make the pupils more aware of the impact of anti-social behaviour within their local community by giving presentations to children in each class. The four wardens have spent a week at the school educating the children on anti-social behaviour issues, focusing mainly on litter and the effects on the environment. The children have also been learning how long it takes certain types of litter to decompose and how, if left lying around, it can also injure animals.
The children have also helped out on a litter pick in the school grounds and in the surrounding area.
The wardens will be presenting prizes to a winner from each year and then a prize will be awarded to the overall winner in the school. The winning poster will then be printed onto a bookmark for each child in the school to keep as well as extra bookmarks for family and friends.
Shaun Nolan, South East Area Manager says: “ Sheffield Homes is committed to tackling anti social behaviour issues and our Neighbourhood Wardens do a fantastic job working closely with our local schools and communities to highlight how anti-social behaviour can have a negative affect on neighbourhoods and people’s lives. The children in our schools are the citizens of tomorrow and we want them to feel proud of where they live and to understand that their actions have consequences and the choices they make affect others.”
The wardens will carry on this initiative throughout other schools in the area in the future.
Senior Housing Officer Samantha Green says: “It became apparent that although the children enjoyed the litter pick they were amazed at the amount of litter found on and around their school. They were very interested in how certain types of litter can harm animals, and were soon informing us which items could actually do harm to themselves. Several children commented that the next time they are out with their families they would encourage them to pick their litter up, which made the whole event worthwhile and proved that the message had got across!”