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Voices: Turning words into action
Shelley HighSchool entrance Shelley Cyber Kids

West Yorkshire Voices is not only working to build links between three schools in Huddersfield, but it also involves these schools working with three different parts of the BBC - radio, television and online.
Shelley High School...

There is a radio studio in Turnshaws School in Kirkburton, some of the students at Almondbury High are making a television documentary about the whole Voices project and the pupils at Shelley High have taken up the challenge to create webpages for our BBC West Yorkshire website.

Shelley has a group of very dedicated students who stay on after school every night just to make pages for the Voices section on this website. We went down to take a sneak preview.


Listen to
members of Shelley High School's Cybercafe:

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Laura is one of the founder members of the Cybercafe. She explains why she got involved: "Originally I did not have the internet at home so I came to Cybercafe, and it was really good fun, and basically I made a lot of new friends. We all thought the Voices project was a really good idea."

She says the group feels have had some good ideas for the Voices pages: "We thought we would like to do a bit on the local history, follow some of the projects through school like the murals and photographs, and find out what people thought when they were doing them and we think we are going to do really well."

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The Cybercafe team will be creating pages for this website

Laura explains why she thinks Voices is important: "I think that young people can do anything really if they get their mind to it. We're just showing we can do things and we're very thoughtful about it."

Adam is another founder member of the Cybercafe. He says: "I think it's really good because, within local communities, everyone should know each other really well, I feel. I used to go to Kirkburton Middle School which is situated just next door to Turnshaws. There was quite a clear link and I felt sad when I moved up to Shelley that this link should be lost and I feel it's about time this link should be re-established."

Adam says the web pages are very much in their early stage but people should watch this space.

 

 

 


 

 

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More from Voices:
BBC Radio Leeds (92.4 FM, 95.3 FM and 774 MW) will be at Turnshaws School and working in the local community from now until June, bringing you the latest from Voices in West Yorkshire.
 
 
What is Voices?
Capturing the stories, concerns and aspirations of those unheard voices across the UK.
Find out more here.

 


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