Friday, 8 April 2011
Smarter than Smoking and the South Metropolitan Public Health Unit – Armadale, have invited schools within the City of Armadale to take part in an exciting youth smoking prevention project in 2011.
The Smarter than Smoking Young Directors’ Festival aims to actively engage at-risk youth in smoking prevention through an innovative, multimedia project in which students are given the opportunity to create their own anti-tobacco commercial.
The five schools in the City of Armadale that have been shortlisted to take part in the Project are:
- Kelmscott Senior High School
- Kingsley Primary School
- Roleystone District High School
- Roleystone Primary School
- Willandra Primary School.
Shortlisted schools have applied to Healthway for a SMART School Grant for financial support to complete the Project and if successful, schools will create and produce their commercials over Term 2 and 3 this year.
An Awards' Night will be held in Term 4 to showcase the commercials to participating schools, their families and the wider community. Awards in various categories of excellence will be presented and the overall winning commercial will be screened at local cinemas. All commercials created by students will feature on the national youth smoking prevention website www.OxyGen.org.au.