Get Social

Content

Get Social is a Learning Playlist to encourage you as a Streetlife Volunteer Youth Workers (VYWs) to explore Blackpool, the local people and the social and cultural opportunities outside of Streetlife. It is a chance for you to explore the area and widen your choices of what to do in your free time.  

Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

Postcard From Blackpool

Mandatory

6 hours

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Content

Here you can find out more about Blackpool, how it has grown as a town and become the place it has become.  

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Postcard From Blackpool Get this badge

The owner of this badge has completed the required 4 Tasks for Postcard From Blackpool activity which forms a part of the learning playlist Get Social.  The skills, knowledge and attitudes gained and demonstrated through completing these tasks include: 
●	Researched Blackpool’s history and shared how it started and what it has become. 
●	Identified some of the things that Blackpool is missing.
●	Identified and shared a favourite place in Blackpool through words and a photograph. 
●	Identified challenges to meeting new people outside of work. 
Completing these four tasks means demonstrating success in gaining the Postcard From Blackpool badge and they on their way to achieving the overall “Get Social’ badge. 
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You have to finish all tasks to get the badge

Tasks

Task no.1

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How did the Blackpool story start and what is Blackpool today? 

Task no.2

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Coming to a new country and town can be a challenge. Please share with us 3 things (not people or sunshine!) that you would like to bring to Blackpool if you could.

Task no.3

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As you get to experience the town and all it has to offer, please share with us your 3 favourite places or parts of the town and say why.

Task no.4

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What do you envisage the challenges to meeting and getting to know other people outside of working at Streetlife? 

Location

Blackpool, UK

Taking Part

Mandatory

6 hours

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Skills

ESCO

#carry out a research strategy

ESCO

#arts history

ESCO

#do history research

ESCO

#acknowledge cultural differences

ESCO

#share ideas

Activities: 2

Started: 4

Completed playlist: 0

Time to complete: 12 hours

Organisers

Streetlife

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