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Saturday Morning Rocks – photographs uploaded!

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Saturday Morning Rocks 2010 was a huge success – many thanks to Daisy Dares You for an excellent live set, to Scam for hosting the show, Vitaminwater for the drinks and to Hard Rock for providing mini burgers and a great venue!

& of course thank you to all the pupils and chaperones who made up the audience – for a full list of attending schools please see below.

We filmed the whole event and will be producing a video of the day very soon but in the meantime we have uploaded some photographs from the event to Snapfish – you can view the images as a gallery and order prints and a collage using your MOTIV Reward Card to claim up to 30 free prints and 1 collage (please see the T&C on your Reward Card for further details)

Click here to view the MOTIV Saturday Morning Rocks Snapfish gallery and to order prints. Please note that you will need an adult to set up your Snapfish account if you have not already got one.

Daisy Dares You’s new single ‘Rosie’ is out today – available on download now!

The full list of schools who sent pupils and chaperones is below:

Oldham Schools:
Blue Coat C.E.
Breeze Hill
Counthill
Crompton House
Grange
Our Lady’s R.C.
North Chadderton
South Chadderton
St. Augustine of Canterbury R.C.

Manchester Schools:
Manchester Creative Media Academy for Boys
Manchester Creative Media Academy for Girls
Plant Hill Arts College
Wright Robinson Specialist College
St Peter’s RC High School
St Paul’s Catholic High School
Parrs Wood High School
Our Lady’s RC High School
Newall Green High School
Manchester Health Academy
Manchester Enterprise Academy
Manchester Academy
Levenshulme High School
Burnage Media Arts College
Abraham Moss High School
Cedar Mount
Chorlton High

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MOTIV celebrates The 100% Challenge with Saturday Morning Rocks at Hard Rock Manchester

Friday, June 18th, 2010

On Saturday 19th June over 300 secondary school pupils from 27 schools across Greater Manchester will come together to celebrate completing The MOTIV 100% Challenge for school attendance at Hard Rock Manchester for an exclusive, invite-only concert by DAISY DARES YOU.

Supported by Manchester City Council and Oldham Council and produced by award winning social enterprise MOTIV The 100% Challenge was issued to every primary and secondary school across Manchester to encourage greater school attendance across Manchester.

MOTIV Director Rose Marley commented ‘Daisy Dares You is an ideal choice of artist for this great celebration of achievement as she is a shining example of hard work resulting in reward. Attending pupils will get to find out more about the entertainment industry on the day though – they can’t all be rockstars but they can all have a successful career if they put the effort in!”

Saturday Morning Rocks will be headlined by Sony Records artist DAISY DARES YOU. Daisy, who is 16 years old and was signed to Sony last year and has already enjoyed huge chart success with Number One Enemy , featuring a guest appearance by Chipmunk. Daisy describes her music as “delirious funky produce”. “I really do feel ready for this,” she says. “This is the best thing that could’ve happened to me.

Not a lot of people my age get a chance like this to perform and release their own records.” Daisy’s aspirations for herself remain at 100%  “I’m not aiming too high at this point. But a global smash hit would be nice.” She comments.

The 100% Challenge has been running in over two hundred schools across Greater Manchester in Spring and Summer Terms. Pupils have been rewarded with exclusively designed badges at each half term and if they completed a whole term with full attendance or significantly improved attendance they receive a special reward tailored to their year group and their school.

Councillor Jack Hulme, Cabinet Member for Children and Families said:  “Oldham Council is anticipating some positive  results at the end of this school year. We have been working hard as an authority and with MOTIV for the past couple of years and we can really start to see that relationship bear fruit”

The MOTIV 100% Challenge is delivered by MOTIV on behalf of Oldham Council and Manchester City Council as part of a range of measures to poor tackle poor school attendance and low aspiration across the city. Early results from Manchester indicate a significant improvement in school attendance over the whole year with a 19% increase in full attendance across Spring Term.

Councillor Sheila Newman, Executive Member Children’s Services, Manchester City Council, said:

“This is going to be a fantastic event for the young people who attend. They thoroughly deserve this exciting reward for their good attendance in school and for demonstrating through this that they value their education and understand the importance of attending school every day they should.”

Rose Marley said: “A child’s future can be mapped out by their attendance record so it’s important that we communicate in a way that is appealing. It’s not just about reward though, through events such as this, we demonstrate just what can be achieved through hard work, teaching pupils valuable skills and raising aspirations in the process.”

The attending schools from Manchester and Oldham are:

Oldham Schools:
Blue Coat C.E.
Breeze Hill
Counthill
Crompton House
Grange
Our Lady’s R.C.
North Chadderton
South Chadderton
St. Augustine of Canterbury R.C.

Manchester Schools:
Manchester Creative Media Academy for Boys
Manchester Creative Media Academy for Girls
Plant Hill Arts College
Wright Robinson Specialist College
St Peter’s RC High School
St Paul’s Catholic High School
Parrs Wood High School
Our Lady’s RC High School
Newall Green High School
Manchester Health Academy
Manchester Enterprise Academy
Manchester Academy
Levenshulme High School
Burnage Media Arts College
Abraham Moss High School
Cedar Mount
Chorlton High
Loreto

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Painting Brighter Futures galleries now live

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Painting Brighter Futures

The Painting Brighter Futures galleries are now live in the Manchester, Nottingham and Oldham microsites – please click on each area to view them.

In association with Crayola, MOTIV produced the ‘Painting Brighter Futures’ resource to get children thinking and talking about what they aspire to be. It also illustrates that there is a direct link between good attendance and their futures.

Thank you to all the pupils and teachers for all their hard work – we received 100’s of entries from primary schools across Manchester, Nottingham and Oldham.

Those pupils fortunate enough to have won a special star prize from Crayola will receive it from the school as we will be sending the prizes out with the HT5 100% Challenge badges. If your school entered the competition and has yet to submit your badge figures for HT5 please do so as soon as possible by clicking here

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Sharp Futures made real for Manchester pupils

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Five pupils from the Creative and Media Academy (Girls) experienced the trappings of  business success today when they were picked up by luxury chauffeur driven car from the school gates to be taken to see the fruits of their labour displayed at The Sharp Project in east Manchester.

Last year pupils from three north Manchester high schools – North Manchester High School for Girls (now The Creative and Media Academy Girls), North Manchester High School for Boys (now The Creative and Media Academy Boys), and Plant Hill High School – were charged with the task of designing a building wrap on the theme of ‘Sharp Futures’ for young people. The best design from one of the three schools was to be produced and displayed on the outside of the former Sharp warehouse in Newton Heath.

Today the competition winners from the Creative and Media Academy (Girls) were driven to The Sharp Project where they will see for the first time their winning artwork draped down the outside of the building on Oldham Road.  They then went on to a winners’ reception at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Manchester where their winning pitch to competition judges took place last year.

The pupils’ winning design was chosen for its clear concept, concise message, and for best meeting the design brief that was set.  The competition was devised by award winning local social enterprise company MOTIV as part of their ongoing partnership work with The Sharp
Project.  This involves giving fourteen year olds valuable experience working on real life projects whilst they are still in school that will benefit them when they leave school and have to put together their CVs for future employers.

Competition judges included Sir Richard Leese, Leader of Manchester City Council; Sharp Director Susan Woodward; local entrepreneur David Derbyshire, Director of successful local business Astra Signs; and Lee Stanley, Director of award winning social enterprise, MOTIV.

Sue Woodward said: “The idea of Sharp Futures is to engage fourteen year old pupils now so that by the time they do leave school they have an armful of real projects they have delivered on their CV giving the best opportunity for their future. They were given a real design brief and the mural ideas they presented were outstanding.”

The competition was sponsored by Astra Signs who agreed to produce a large scale impressive building wrap, based on the winning artwork from the school that came up with the most inspiring artwork, for The Sharp Project on Oldham Road.

Manchester City Council and New East Manchester is transforming the former Sharp warehouse in east Manchester into a new centre for creative and digital industries – offering talented starters, young entrepreneurs and established professionals the opportunity to develop and prototype their ideas in a purpose-built environment that provides unrivalled access to very high speed broadband connections.

Sir Richard Leese said: “The finished artwork is really stunning and something that each of the pupils involved in should be really proud of. The Sharp Futures project goes to the heart of innovative and creative Manchester, giving the opportunity to our young people, in this case from North Manchester, to show what they can do, and to see what doors might open for them in the future if they put the work in. Great stuff!”

For more information about The Sharp Project please visit www.thesharpproject.co.uk

Sharp Project MD Sue Woodward and Astra Signs MD David Derbyshire with the MCMA pupils in front of the banner.

MCMA pupils presented  with their own mini Sharp Futures banners at Crowne Plaza Manchester

The pupils enjoy ‘mocktails’ at Crowne Plaza Manchester

The Sharp Futures banner design

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Greater Manchester pupils pitch their news ideas to Channel M

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Pupils from the schools across Greater Manchester were recently given a golden opportunity to pitch their ideas for a news feature to Channel M Today, at The Channel M Experience, hosted by URBIS. It was the final event from the MOTIV 100% Challenge which ran across Greater Manchester schools in Spring Term 2009. (more…)

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Local Entrepreneurs Return to School for The Sharp Futures Project

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Local entrepreneurs David Derbyshire and Lee Stanley returned to school yesterday with amazing results. David Derbyshire, Director of successful local business Astra Signs, will be sponsoring an impressive building wrap for the school near where he grew up, that demonstrates the most inspiring artwork for The Sharp Project on Oldham Road. The winning team will see their artwork scaled to half the size of a football pitch and draped down the side of the Sharp building. (more…)

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Designer Badges for School Attendance

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Local rock stars Kid British were on hand to give out designer badges to pupils at Plant Hill Arts College, Blackley, Manchester. The badges were being awarded for school attendance as part of the MOTIV Attendance Challenge. (more…)

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Brighter Futures for Spring Term 2009

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Brighter Futures is the theme of The Attendance Challenge Spring Term 2009. Brighter Futures is an exciting MOTIV collaboration from world leading brands Crayola and Ben Sherman who have inspired the first ever designer school attendance badge in the new 100% range of attendance badges. (more…)

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