Project TUB - Tackling Unacceptable Behaviour - began as a pilot scheme involving ten schools in the Newcastle area.

With funding from Newcastle City Councils ‘Closing the Gap’ fund, TUB was been delivered to approximately 600 children and young people across Primary and Comprehensive schools.

The objectives of Project TUB are to allow pupils to have fun, while at the same time concentrating on behaviour and its consequences. Sessions include discussions, interactive questionnaires, creative writing, poster design and drama.

Part of the sessions for pupils in Primary schools has been to work towards fun certificates by completing a 'Jack in the Box' work booklet. The nature of the booklet encourages pupils to identify acceptable behaviours such as ‘Opening a door for someone’, ‘saying NO when someone asks you to do something you know is wrong’ and ‘acting responsibly’. Pupils enjoyed completing the booklets and shouting out the Jack in the Box song that went with it.

In some of the schools a mock shop fitted with CCTV cameras was set up. This was used as a way of relating the type of behaviour expected whilst out shopping to the type of behaviour we actually see or display. We went onto explore the behaviour expected by the shop owner.

Drama has also been used in Secondary schools as a way of creating different situations in young people's lives where we 'think before we act' and to explore the consequences of behaviour.

Project TUB continue to develop in the Sunderland area, with funding recently awarded from Sunderland New Deal for Communities ‘Back on the Map’ fund.

For further information contact the project co-ordinator - see details above/right.


Northumbria Coalition Against Crime, Northumbria Police HQ, Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne NE20 0BL
Telephone 01661 868 424, Fax 01661 868488, E-mail info@thecoalition.org.uk