Mum at 14 (3/6/08 BBC3 9:00)

Mum at 14, was a programme on BBC3 last night, following Kizzy Neal's (see story lower down)pregnancy and the affect it had on her and her family. Click here to see the story

Tomorrow is London!!!

Tomorrow we go to London for our campaign. We have collected all sorts of information on teenage pregnancies and on the 'Was It Really Worth It?' campaign to display in London. We are hoping to win £750 - which will be put to good use funding our campaign. Thank you to everyone who voted on our logo poll - you can see we have a new poll on drinking and teenage pregnancies, so please vote on that too. Thanks!!!

Slideshows etc!

Today we had a bit fiddle with the powerpoint show that we are hopefully going to show the judges during the Dragons Den style pitch. We are going to have another meeting tomrrow to discuss the dragons den pitch

I also got a reply from Prontaprint today about leaflets. We were quoted £115 for 500 leaflets.

PS Looking forward to Wednesday's ceremony (it's less than 48 hors away!!!)

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Logo poll results

Good news!! The logo is here to stay. Thank you to all who voted. Please keep voting on whether sex under the influence of alcohol increases the risk of teenage pregnancy. Once again thank you very much for voting!

Young 'drink to increase chances of sex'

Acccording to a recent study almost a third of young people use alcohol to increase their hances of sex.

A third of young men and a quarter of young women admit drinking to help them find a sexual partner.

But many go onto regre having sex under the influence of alcohol.

(story form The Daily Telegraph)

Surely this must increase the chances of teenage pregnancy?!

Please leave your thoughts on the opposite poll

Leaflet Printing

I have just contacted Paul form Prontaprint in Durham about further details on leaflet printing.

I will make another post as soon as I get a reply

PS Keep voting on whether you like the logo or not. It closes tomorrow!!

the powerpoint presentation for the dragon's den is finished

we are preparing the pitch that lottie and robert are going to say to the judges

we have designed posters advertising our campaign hung around school. we have twice put announcements in the daily notices and today was the third announcement that has been made in assembly. the school are well aware and supportive of our campaign!!!

today

Looking forward to presentation

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6th May 08

hello. We had a meeting today with Mrs Fiddaman about the arrangements for the 14th.

Also, Robert has created some posters to hang around school and Put in the registers

from helen

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London journey pictures (27th Feburary 2008)

Here are some individual photos of the team from the journey to london on the 27th Februry 2008!! Robert (top left), Helen (top right), Lottie (centre) and Michael (bottom).






PS Keep voting on whether you like our logo of not. you only have until friday (10th May 2008) to vote. If you have already voted please tell all your friends! and if you haven't what are you waiting for!!!

Pitching

Our group have decided that Charlotte and Robert are going to do the pitch to the Dragons Den style judging panel, on May 14th. The group are going to meet up again on Tuesday 6th May, to plan what we would like to convey to judges. This is very important as we only have one chance to present our ideas - and our result in the Den will have an impact on how far we can take our campaign.

Finished Leaflets

The leaflets on teenage pregnancies are now finished! We are going to get in contact with a printing company now to get them printed off, and also work out how many of the leaflets we need printing. I'll e-mail the leaflet - along with a Powerpoint presentation on the 'Was It Really Worth It?' campaign - to Heather from Common Purpose tomorrow. We are going to hand these leaflets out in Fenham, and also see if we can put some in the local pool and library and some other schools in Fenham.

The Finals

With the CHANGEit award finals on May the 14th coming ever closer, we will have to start bringing all of our ideas together and decide which ones we will put into action. On the day of the finals, we have the opportunity to win £750 to fund our campaign. This will be extremely useful as the campaign needs advertising, and ideas - which cost money to finish - will all have to be paid for. Don't forget to vote whether you like our logo. You can do this by selecting your answer from the voting section at the top on the right-hand side of the page. Then click the vote button. We will appreciate it if you do vote, as we need as many votes as possible to work out whether the logo works or not.

Radio Stations

We are going to try and get our campaign noticed by local radio stations, and be interviewed by one to tell them about our campaign. The North East has many local radio stations. It will be important to choose a radio station that will probably be listened to by the people who are or will potentially be the focus of our campaign on teenage pregnancies.

Some positive feedback on the logo

We have recently received some positve feedback on the blog. The following are from anonymous sources.
"I think that the cartoon of the stalk is a great choice. I also like the colours on the blog -blue for a boy and pink for a girl".

And another, "I think the logo is very good and is a neat design".

Finally from us, there is not long left to vote whether you like the logo or not, so if you haven't voted yet, Get voting!!! (Poll closes 10th May)

Printing

We have been contacted by Paul from Prontaprint in Durham and he says he will see what kind of deal he can give us for printing the leaflets. I'll contact him once I've finished the leaflet design (definately by the end of this week).

Leaflet Printing

We are going to look around for the best deal we can get for printing some leaflets to hand out. We'll have a look at Prontaprint's prices and deals but it will also be a good idea to look at some smaller printing companies in the Newcastle-Gateshead-Durham area. I noticed yesterday a printing shop near Newcastle's Central Station which printed 1000 A4 double-sided leaflets for £95. This works out at less than 10p per print! I will continue to look around and search the web for any better prices though. We'll tell you which printing service we have chosen when we have had a look and compared these prices.

Meanwhile, I was doing some research for the leaflets I am designing and I am amazed at some of the figures I found about the number of under 18 girls who get pregnant. The group already know a lot on the subject of teenage pregnancies from previous research and knowledge, but many of these numbers were huge!

One problem of teenage pregnancies

'Kizzy Neal was 13 when she became pregnant with her son, Kaylib. She feels she did not receive adequate sex education.' This is just one example of the problems of teenage pregnancies in Britain that we are attempting to resolve. This was taken
from the telegraph website.

Leaflets and School

We are currently designing leaflets to distribute in Fenham. We are going to find out how much it will cost to have these leaflets printed professionally. Our group have also spoken to our principal and the school's Public Relations lady, and we intend to get our campaign noticed by local newspapers and radio stations. On the training day in London, the group was taught how to deal with the media in an interview.

The Logo

The logo for the 'Was it Really Worth it?' campaign is a Crane carrying a baby in a bundle. This was chosen because it shows how unexpected a baby can be. Please leave your thoughts on the opposite poll

Our Campaign

Our Campaign is to raise awareness about teenage pregnancies - Sexually Transmitted Diseases, contraception, and the problems it can cause eg. on your social life/education. It is designed at everyone involved: mother, father and the parents of the mother and father. It is currently starting within our school, but we aim to move into Fenham, Newcastle by Summer-Autumn 2008.

CHANGEit Innovation Workshop

Yesterday (27th February) We travelled for three hours on the train to London. We all really enjoyed the trip. We got a taxi from Kings Cross to Deutsche Bank and were the first there so had a drink. When the other campaign groups got there, we got started. We got talks from Heather and Emily and Mr Horseman during the day. They should really help us know more about our campaign!!! We have had a meeting with our head master today and we are going to do an assembly, and hopefully put the video on our blog. We have emailed our school PR, and she will be getting in touch with a local newspaper. We are really excited to be getting our campaign started and will write more soon.

CHANGEit Innovation Training Session

Here we are with the other finalists! Now we're ready to get campaigning!