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Cantabrians heading out to the rugby or supporting the Christchurch Marathon this weekend may want to rug up before braving the elements.
Cold, dry weather is forecast for the region tonight and throughout Queen's Birthday weekend, with temperatures dipping below freezing each night.
MetService forecaster John Law said the long weekend was expected to be "fine and dry" throughout, with "nice clear skies" during both the days and nights.
The temperature is expected to drop to -3 degrees Celsius tonight; meaning those planning to support the Crusaders should consider rugging up first.
The Crusaders will face the Western Force at AMI Stadium from 7.35pm today.
Law said those participating in the annual Christchurch Marathon on Sunday should also consider the cold, with a low of -4C expected overnight tomorrow.
"It's going to be a chilly old start for that."
Highs of only 11C or 12C are expected during the long weekend, and conditions are expected to be similar throughout the South Island, he said.
The cold overnight temperatures ahead pose a risk of Christchurch hitting another high pollution night.
"Clear cold nights and light winds, a lot of people using their fires, so it could be a bit murky in the mornings," Law said.
Christchurch hit its fifth high pollution day for 2014 yesterday.
Environment Canterbury (ECan) measures pollution by the amount of small particles in the air (known as PM10), such as dust, smoke or fog.
A high reading is a daily concentration greater than 50 micrograms per cubic metre of air.
Yesterday, 55mcg was recorded at ECan's monitoring station in St Albans.
Christchurch had recorded three days of high pollution by the same time last year.
Cantabrians heading away for the long weekend have been urged to take care as icy conditions make roads hazardous.
NZ Transport Agency journey manager Lee Wright said motorists needed to take extra care this weekend with increased traffic because of the long weekend, the start of winter arriving and many farms changing hands.
Shorter days and unpredictable winter weather could make driving more of a challenge, especially on alpine passes where motorists needed to watch for shady areas and frost, she said.
Tomorrow also marked the annual 'Gypsy Day', where thousands of farm animals and hundreds of households hit rural roads as farms changed hands and sharemilkers took up new contracts.
Part of State Highway 73 remained down to one lane west of Otira following a massive slip last week, while Haast Pass at the Diana Falls slip site also remained down to a single lane during the day and would be closed completely overnight.
Sergeant Phil Newtown, of the Canterbury highway patrol, said long trips, heavy traffic, weather and alcohol could combine to increase the risk of crashes this weekend.
He encouraged drivers to wear seatbelts, drive and safe speeds and avoid drinking and driving.
Over the last six Queen's Birthday weekends, Canterbury recorded three fatal crashes, 10 serious injuries crashes, 43 minor injury crashes and 108 non-injury crashes.
All three of the fatal crashes happened on urban roads between 6pm and 2.30am and all were alcohol-related, Newton said.
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Minnesota Wild forward Matt Cooke has spent the past few years trying to convince people around the NHL that he's a changed man. Despite having a checkered past with the league's disciplinary department, Cooke claimed he knew he had to change his game, and for the most part it looked like he was leaning in the right direction.
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During Game 3 of Minnesota's opening round series with the Colorado Avalanche, Cooke issued a deliberate knee-on-knee hit to Avalanche defenseman Tyson Barrie. Almost immediately after the collision, Barrie was heard saying "I'm done," to his bench. And he is, at least for four to six weeks, diagnosed with an MCL sprain that could very well end his season depending how his team performs.
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- 10-20 grape leaves
- 10-12 dill heads
- 1 ounce pickling spice
- 3 1/2 gals cukes (20 lbs)
- 1 pound pickling salt
- 2 cups white vinegar
- 2 gallons water
Scald a 4 gallon crock. Line bottom with grape leaves then add half the dill and 1/2 the pickling spice and fill with washed cukes (remove blossom end) to within 3" of top then add the rest of the dill and spice and cover with grape leaves. Make a brine of the salt, vinegar and water. Bring to boil and allow to cool. Pour cooled brine over cukes. Cover/weigh down with a plate and clean rock or canning jar filled with water and sealed to hold contents below brine. Remove scum daily. Keep at around 70-80 degrees. Fermentation should be complete in 10-14 days. When pickles are cured make a fresh brine, bring to boil and cool. Pack cukes into sterilized jars, pour brine over and seal. Store in fridge. (If the cukes are fully cured you could also use hot brine and BWB 15 minutes).
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Jay-Z has a Scott Boras dis on his new album
Jul 3, 2013, 9:37 PM EDT
Scott Boras admitted to FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal in April that he was blindsided by Robinson Cano's decision to abruptly leave the Boras Corporation for a new sports agency started by rap mogul Jay-Z. So it's probably safe to say that Boras is not going to like this:
[Jay-Z], who recently began work as a sports agent with his Roc Nation Sports, took a shot at Boras in a song off his upcoming new album.
"Scott Boras, you over baby. Robinson Cano, you coming with me," Jay-Z raps on the song "Crown," ESPN.com's Darren Rovell has confirmed.
That's from ESPN New York. "Magna Carta Holy Grail" — Jay-Z's 13th solo LP — hits shelves and iPods and blank CDs on Thursday.
Scott Boras issued a response via CBS Sports' Scott Miller. Sadly, it was not in the form of a dis song:
Scott Boras on Jay-Z's dig: "Baseball has given us everything we have, so we give baseball everything we have, all of the time"
— Scott Miller (@ScottMCBS) July 4, 2013
More Boras: "We watch, observe and listen to the game. We help the players who play it with a singular purpose, and that is baseball."
— Scott Miller (@ScottMCBS) July 4, 2013
- buffalomafia - Jul 4, 2013 at 8:16 AM
Word to your mother!
- jpat2424 - Jul 4, 2013 at 8:40 AM
Jay Z is a D Bag
- fanofevilempire - Jul 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
yeah, half a billion and counting D-Bag!
- icanspeel - Jul 4, 2013 at 12:36 PM
Like him or not.. Jay-Z is smart since that small diss made posts on other sites advertising his album for him
- andy peoplez singleton - Jul 4, 2013 at 6:12 PM
This has already received more attention than it deserved. It's all in good humor, stop making it out for more than it is. Jay-Z = marketing guru
- straightouttavtown - Jul 4, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Hate on Boras all you want, but let's face it, if you're a smart baseball player, would you hire an agent who had played baseball professionally, has a law degree, and a long track record of negotiating record setting contracts or a rapper who never played baseball or any sport professionally, didn't even graduate from high school, and most likely don't even know how to read a contract? Whoever signed with Jay-Z is an ignorant groupie who is getting used by Jay-Z. Now I grew up listening to Jay-Z, but I wouldn't hire him as my agent if I play baseball. I'd rather go with Boras.
- andy peoplez singleton - Jul 4, 2013 at 6:18 PM
Jay-Z is not negotiating their contracts, he is representing all of their interests. If you were a young athlete, wouldn't you want to follow a guy who made himself a mogul from an upbringing in the projects?
"From Marcy to Madison Square, to the only thing that matters in just a matter of years…"
For educated and enlightening sports commentary
- gibbskins9 - Jul 4, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Let's face Jay-z is only getting clients because of his name not his talent, his fame will fade out as an agent.
- louhudson23 - Jul 4, 2013 at 4:29 PM
- dezertfox4323 - Jul 6, 2013 at 9:55 PM
Yes, Jay-Z cannot enunciate, speak well, sing or play an instrument. He has no real artistic talent, hence the reason he gets rich off uneducated ghetto people. He is a jackass as well, frog eyed piece of filth.
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Returning to El Salvador
Charles Nevin adopted his son, Cristian, in war-torn El Salvador in 1991. Eighteen years on, the family returned to discover a very different country
Sunday 15 March 2009
No doubt, San Salvador airport had changed. Where we remembered war-pocked concrete was now marbled up to the highest international standard, with bars and shops quite as splendid and indistinguishable as anywhere else. Not that we were complaining, even though we were one suitcase short of a full trolley. Bland normality is better than edgy normality, unless you are intrepid travellers.
We are not. In fact, we were even more trepidatious than usual, which is setting the trembling bar of trepidation very high indeed. Understandable, though: this was our first trip back to where our two sons, aged 18 (today!) and 14, were born: Cristian here in El Salvador, Luis in neighbouring Guatemala.
Ah, yes, international adoption, a procedure fraught with attitude. There are those, like us, who couldn't have their own children and so decided to adopt from where we thought it might do most good. And then there are those who insist that this is neo-colonial condescension, that children shouldn't be taken from their countries, deprived of their cultures. But ours wouldn't have had much of a life, if any, cultural or otherwise: that's why they needed adopting. A tricky business, this existence, I thought, not for the first time, as I struggled with the lost baggage form.
I could see that Cristian's mind was similarly occupied as we approached passport control. It's tough enough being a teenager, and he had wavered before agreeing to his pushy parents' plans to recharge his Salvadoran side.
The passport officer examined ours and us carefully, lingering over Cristian's British passport, before returning it. "Welcome back to your country," he said, gravely, before breaking into a broad smile. "You can stay as long as you like..." Then, with a gesture and another smile, he said to the rest of us, "And so can you."
All right, all right, I'll keep a grip. Not such an unusual thing, this return of a native to a country with a population of 7 million, which has 2.5 million more living and working in the United States. But the trepidatious tend to remember stories of resentment towards families like ours. And so are commensurately (and a bit soppily, to be honest) delighted to be welcomed, as we were, all over, with warm approval.
Besides, it's rather fine for a tourist to feel liked, rather than tolerated, no matter how efficiently; and to know that you are giving much-needed help to a sector struggling to overcome an image problem.
Which is putting it crassly. Both El Salvador and Guatemala have suffered horribly from the accidents of geography and history that have exposed them not only to the natural disasters of earthquake, eruption and storm, but also to the man-made mayhem of civil wars, fiercely fanned by close proximity to the almost perpetually paranoid superpower to the north.
When we arrived in El Salvador for the first time, in 1991, with army helicopters overhead, it was in the 11th year of a civil war between leftist guerrillas and the US-backed army that cost 75,000 lives. In Guatemala, civil war between leftist guerrillas and the US-backed army lasted nearly four decades and cost 200,000 lives.
"Poor Central America," the saying goes. "So far from God, so close to the United States." The irony of this for a country named after His son has long been exhausted.
But not, remarkably, the people. To visit El Salvador and Guatemala is to experience a great gusting energy of reconstruction and relief at any sort of peace that nearly blows you away. How on earth the cartoon cliché of figures slumbering under sombreros came about is as mysterious as the idea, promoted by visiting writers including Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene, that Central Americans, particularly the Mayans, are unsmiling and incorrigibly sullen.
In Guatemala, Huxley wondered at the Maya performing their traditional dance of the conquistadors, a people celebrating its conquest. When I asked a Guatemalan about this, he laughed. "It's a joke," he said.
In a narrow street in El Salvador, we witnessed a small funfair whose Ferris wheel would have seriously harmed a health and safety inspector's health. Passing inches above passers-by, it was powered by what remained of a Datsun, with the operator behind the wheel, face fixed under his bandanna. Then he saw my face, and broke into the widest smile I have ever seen, inviting me to join in his delight at the madness of everything.
This energy, as history shows, can be baleful. The Maras, or street gangs, born among the US émigrés and re-imported, are a vicious and constant threat to order. El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
The trepidatious take a guide. Ours was Mario, who, like so many others, had left with his parents to escape the
civil war. Now in his thirties, Mario had studied nuclear physics, was now studying psychology, and saw his tour company as a mission to promote El Salvador. All this from $25.
Everywhere in San Salvador were posters for Mauricio Funes, the front-runner in today's presidential elections. Funes would be the first candidate from the FMLN, the former guerrillas, to be elected; a Salvadoran television presenter without a guerrilla past who favours suits over fatigues, he is, according to bias, an El Obama who will export the economic success of the capital to the rest of the country, or a plausible frontman for a hard leftist programme which would make Hugo Chavez cry momentito.
San Salvador Cathedral's plaza fizzed with street life and politics. The cathedral was left unfinished by Archbishop Oscar Romero, Salvador's Becket, who preferred to help the poor. It has now been completed, still bearing the bullet marks from the massacre of 24 demonstrators on the steps in 1979.
Further out is the immaculately preserved and heavily attended hospital chapel where Romero, the placeman who turned, was murdered at mass for his inconvenience. On a nearby wall is a magnificent mural of pain and accusation, painted by a master of the streets: the martyr sits beneath his cross; the people hold out their hands, submissive, all with bloody stigmata; the cruel, suited rich cover their ears and eyes, a cardinal cowers and a soldier sheds a giant tear.
What did our boys make of all this? Well, when asked, they usually replied, "interesting", which is big in the 13-19 sector, where economy of expression and non-commitment are influential. But in another, poorer part of San Salvador, at the Casa Romero, a refuge for street children which exists on money raised by Aces, a small British charity, we watched them moved by lives that could have been theirs, by the sweetness of bruised reserve dissolving into smiles and laughter, by the sadness that such spirit should be forced to be so achingly invincible.
We stayed mostly in San Salvador, at the Hotel Siesta, where we first met Cristian, when I felt obliged by politeness to continue a discussion about the local beer (Suprema, rather good) despite having spotted out of the corner of my eye the arrival of a large part of the rest of my life in a small bundle. It's still very friendly and acceptable, but there are now newer, chain hotels in more convenient locations.
Outside the capital, Salvadoran tourism continues, energetically, naturally, to play catch-up. Surfing has long been a big attraction on its coast, but resorts have now been developed, especially at Costa del Sol, for those who might prefer to ponder the Pacific rather than stand on it. Like everywhere else in Central America's smallest country, it's not far; this and the fewer tourists add to the beguilements of places like Suchitoto, a Spanish colonial gem you might compare to Guatemala's far more renowned Antigua, although you would get into an argument with my Guatemalan.
So, too, with the country's Mayan sites, especially Joya de Ceren, where a Mayan village caught in an eruption 1,400 years ago is as preserved as Pompeii. The only Mayan village to survive, it is close to the San Andres site, where a step pyramid only partly excavated still amazes.
Here, though, I must agree with my Guatemalan, and bow to Tikal, the city whose mighty temples loom out of the northern Guatemala jungle, Ozymandian monuments to that still-mysterious civilisation from which my children descend. As did the shaman, or holy man, we talked to about the prediction that 2012, the end of one of the minutely calculated Mayan calendar cycles, will also bring the end of the world. There was good news and bad news. The world would survive, he said, but there would be bad times first. And as this was early last summer, he seemed some way ahead of the bankers.
Mario took us to La Puerta del Diablo, the Devil's Door, a great gap in the mountains above San Salvador allowing views right to the coast, 30 miles and 10 volcanoes away. On the way, true to his view that a "country without history or memory does not have anything", Mario explained that the spot was now popular for picnics; during the civil war, he said, it had been popular for dumping bodies.
We climbed to the top. In the foreground were the wide waters of Lake Ilopango, by whose shores Cristian had been born. He was deep in thought, as you would be and I was. Later, he said he would be coming back to Salvador. Happy Birthday, Cristian. Peace be with you, El Salvador.
How to get there
Charles Nevin and his family travelled to El Salvador with Journey Latin America (020-8747 8315; journeylatinamerica.co.uk), which offers a six-night trip around the country from £1,523 per person, based on two sharing, including return flights, transfers, B&B and excursions.
Further information
Mario Dominguez, Nahuat Tours ( nahuatours.com).
Aid for Children of El Salvador ( childrenofelsalvador.co.uk).
El Salvador Tourist Board (00 503 2243 7835; elsalvador.travel).
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At this year's Conservative Party Conference, MP John Hayes described colleges as "the unheralded triumph". High time, then, that colleges start to blow their own trumpet and it is in this spirit that the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and the Association of Colleges will launch the first ever Colleges Week on 10 November.
"It will attempt to inspire and unite the sector behind a celebration of the work colleges are doing to unlock the talent in local communities," says David Collins, AoC president. "This week offers a chance to bring the public's attention to the richness and diversity of colleges.
"Colleges are still seen as places where vocational, usually older, students develop skills. But they're about so much more – supporting management training for businesses, bringing life to communities and transforming lives."
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"Oh my God, it's a woman!" is the usual response that Leonie Driver gets when she does career talks on stonemasonry. Much to her family's surprise, Driver decided to give up her career in archaeology – which she had studied at university – at the age of 24 to retrain in the ancient craft. "I love old buildings and I wanted a more practical career, with tangible results that people could appreciate for years to come," says Driver, who is currently working to help restore Warwick Castle.
Now 27, she studied stonemasonry at York College. Programme leader Paul Hill explains why it's such an important skill to develop. "There's a skills crisis in this area. We have nobody to repair our old buildings."
With National Lottery funding increasingly enabling the restoration of not just stately homes, castles and mansions but also small churches and other buildings, stonemasons are more vital than ever – not only in York but nationwide. "The new heritage qualification is also significant," adds Hill. "The Government is insisting that every stonemason has a recognised qualification by 2011, so we're getting people who've been doing it for 20 or 30 years but who don't have a formal qualification."
Others decide to take up stonemasonry for the first time, as late as in their 50s. "We get career-changers of all ages – I think people have a romantic view of stonemasonry," says Hill, who himself gave up bricklaying to follow his dream.
Driver has been one of his best students to date, winning several awards for her work. "What was great about the course was that you have the freedom to be creative, spending time on things such as column tops and lions' heads," says Driver. "I was also struck by how enthusiastic and helpful the teachers were. The range of experience and skills that people who came onto the course had was huge, but they managed it really well. That's why I'm more than happy to come back and do talks to help persuade other people what a great career this is – including, and perhaps especially, women."
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There came a point in Chester Richards' life when he couldn't face another prison or rehab unit. "Although I had no qualifications or skills, I took the huge step of going to a job centre in Brixton," he says. It was there that he was told about a project run by the London-based college City Lit which trains homeless and ex-offender learners – as well as those who have used mental health, drugs and alcohol services – to become support workers for people facing the kinds of problems they once did.
"The idea is to allow people to turn a negative experience into a valuable asset," says Wendy McKaig, head of programme at City Lit's community outreach. This isn't about getting someone off benefits to stack shelves, she says. "It's giving them access to a well-paid career with long-term prospects."
Of the 46 people who have achieved the City and Guilds qualification so far (many of them also study skills-for-life courses such as literacy alongside the main, nine-month course), 35 per cent have moved into paid employment. The remainder are either actively seeking work, attending university or doing voluntary work.
McKaig admits the success rate is helped by the voluntary sector increasingly employing people with direct experience of the kinds of services they offer. "There is a recognition that having gone through all that gives you a level of insight and empathy that can be very effective. That isn't enough in itself, of course. You need professional competency too – but that's where our college course comes in," she says.
Richards, who is now a support worker for a hostel for entrenched drinkers in Camden, admits he got off to a bad start. "When I arrived, I found there was a lot of writing and I thought, 'This isn't for me,' but Wendy gave me the encouragement to see me through. I still can't believe it, really. I've never finished anything in my life."
When it came to the work placement – which all students are sent on as part of the course. Richards soon found himself giving up weekends to go back. "I realised I had something to give back." Today, Richards loves the challenge of his career. "And the options," he says. "I could move onto becoming a substance misuse worker or work in resettlement in the housing sector. There's so much I could do."
Delivering excellence
This year, Farnborough Sixth Form College had 3,000 applicants for 1,500 places. "Even in October, I was getting e-mails daily from youngsters who, having been unable to get in, were saying, 'Please, have you got any places left?'" laments principal John Guy. He admits that it's a mixed blessing. "It's a delight to have the reputation of being such a cool place to study, but we hate saying no."
Guy happily compares the college to the so-called top schools in the country – Magdalen College School in Oxford and City of London Girls School. "They boast that 99.6 per cent of their A-level entries got grades A or B, but they select students. We are non-selective and 250 of our students only got As and Bs."
What's more, the college serves youngsters whose academic histories are varied. "Our value-added results, as they're known, have meant we've been consistently in the top 10 per cent of educational institutions for the last four of five years," he says.
Indeed, if there's one phrase Guy hears time and time again from parents, it's "I don't know what you've done to my child, but he/she is different". The critical thing about Farnborough is that they work very hard in the first few weeks of the year ensuring students don't bring their school baggage with them, says Guy. "To that end, we don't have a single bell that rings in the college. We all have watches. And we're all known by our first names because the teachers work with the students. It's that sort of philosophy that respects the young person and enables them to grow.
Teachers undertake research on how to improve teaching and learning, further demonstrating the college's commitment to delivering excellence. "We publish an in-house journal of their findings –and some articles are published nationally," says Guy.
Transforming lives
They say every cloud has a silver lining, but it's only with hindsight that Leo Scott can see the good that came out of his near-fatal motorbike accident. The crash happened one Sunday afternoon when he was a teenager. "My helmet came off on impact and I was in a coma for 14 days. I nearly didn't make it," says the 22-year-old, who has some permanent damage.
"But it forced me to assess my life, a life I'd become very disillusioned with. I'd dropped out of education and full-time work hadn't agreed with me either. But since the accident, I've thrived at college and it has literally turned my life around. My confidence has gone up, my personal achievements have rocketed and I've been able to focus on helping other students stay on track."
Scott is in the second year of a BTEC National Diploma (BND) in media at Filton College, Bristol, where Michelle Hughes, his personal tutor, describes him as a model student. "When Leo started, he was full of self-doubt, especially as he's studying the equivalent of three A-levels. But he quickly got top grades, which boosted his confidence. As he started believing in himself, he started on the road to an exceptional year, both in terms of practical and academic work." Just as impressive, she says, is his informal mentoring of other students. "People gravitated towards him, even people not in his tutorial groups."
Scott, who wants to work in broadcast media, believes it's because these students – many of whom are teenagers – know that he understands their confusion and doubts about life only too well. "I think they see me now really valuing the education I'm getting and are intrigued about how I got through the bad times to this. It's really rewarding helping them get through their confusion and do well on the course."
Helping businesses to succeed
When Currys decided to upskill their supply chain and internal workforce, they could have approached a private training organisation. "But when you do that, the trainers come in and provide X, Y and Z and then go," says Ben Spencer, supply chain training manager. "Just like that, it's done and dusted. I wanted more than that. I wanted to build a relationship with our trainers so that we could think about training in the long term."
He adds that Currys had complex training requirements – including level 2 qualifications in installing equipment for their home delivery team, customer service courses for front-line staff, and IT and management qualifications for the back office teams. That meant integrating college training into their whole business. "It wasn't even as if we knew exactly what we wanted when we started out," he adds. "With the home delivery team, for example, I knew that I wanted them to have an NVQ in domestic installing, but I needed to work with Lincoln College to configure a domestic installer training programme that meets the requirement of both the awarding body City & Guilds and our business."
Now that training is well underway, Spencer has no doubt that Currys' bottom line has been affected by their work with Lincoln and other FE colleges. "Customers have more confidence in our staff – who are of the same high standard – and our staff's morale and self-confidence has been boosted."
In fact, he says, no sooner had the first batch of 200 people been put through one of the courses that he had others regularly ringing to say, "When can I have my go?"
While some of the training happens at college, the FE sector has also helped Currys build its own learning centre, where colleges send staff to deliver training.
Spencer says colleges have exceeded his expectations. "They have moved mountains to get our training done well and quickly and I particularly value the constant communication I have with them. Colleges are an advice shop as much as a training provider," he says.
'I wouldn't even change his nappy or give him a bottle – now I've learnt to be a good mother'
Nobody wants to be pregnant at the age of 14 and Samantha Louise Jubb was no exception. In addition to all the usual anxieties of being a very young first-time mum, Jubb was still expected to be in full-time education. It was her doctor who suggested Ashlyns Unit, a pupil referral unit for pregnant schoolgirls and schoolgirl mothers that forms part of Newcastle Bridges School. But by her own admission, Jubb wasn't keen.
"I wouldn't go," she says. "Only after I had my baby boy, who's now 17 months old, did I even consider it. I'd been in denial about everything, but once my baby boy arrived I suddenly realised I'd done very little with my life and I didn't want the same for my son. I thought, 'If he watches me just laze about, he'll probably do just the same'."
But the transition into class was far from easy. "Samantha didn't participate, even when she was here," her tutor recalls. "You could tell things were really difficult for her." Jubb puts it down to some depression following the birth, things being stressful at home and her lack of self-belief. "At that time, I still wouldn't look after my baby," she said. "My mam and aunty did everything. I wouldn't even change his nappy or give him a bottle."
It was a childcare course run by Newcastle College every Friday for the girls at Ashylns that made the difference. "Samantha didn't sign up at first," says Maria Gibson, the course leader. "But she pulled me aside at the end and said, 'Do you think I could do it?' I don't think she thought she could, but she's been first to finish and she's thrived. Having achieved NVQ level 1, she went on to complete level 2 in three months. Normally people take at least a year."
Gibson believes the college's dedication to encouraging students had a strong part to play. "Samantha needed continual support – someone regularly telling her she could achieve, because she'd never had that from anyone else in her life. She ended up studying IT and a couple of other courses too."
Jubb has already had one spell of working in paid childcare, but has decided to educate herself to NVQ level 3 before returning to work. Her life has totally changed. "I'm moving into my own home, I'm looking forward to my career, I feel confident and best of all, I've learnt how to be a good mother," she says. "I'm not saying my boy isn't a handful, but I know how to deal with it. The course is the best thing that's ever happened to me."
It hasn't been an easy ride, she admits. "I can't really spell and needed a lot of help with writing on the course. I needed a lot of persuading that I could do it all the way through too. But I got both those things and I've learnt things like the importance of play – not just why it's good to play and how it brings children on educationally, but how different types of play enable them to thrive in different ways. I'd never have thought of stuff like that without the course."
Gibson agrees the change has been enormous. "At first, Samantha would come to class and never talk about anything to do with education. She'd just chat about what happened at the weekend. But once she was hooked in, there was no stopping her. Now she can achieve all sorts of things."
Every girl at Ashlyns has a tale to tell, says Gibson – most are ones of success. "We work with the school to change these girls' lives."
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