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KEAP Informed! Education

Welcome to the KEAP Informed! Education bulletin containing information for you and the young people you work with. This bulletin is aimed at teachers, educators, extended schools co-ordinators and young people

If you would like to sign up for this e bulletin or have information included, please email Helen Reynolds on helen.reynolds@keap.org.uk

News & Updates

Training, Opportunities & Workshops

Events

 

Digital Image Manipulation for Beginners- 21 November, Bodmin College

Fri 21 November, 9.30-2.00. Cost £50 per teacher payable to Bodmin College.

This half day course is being held at Bodmin College digital media centre, and you can bring up to 2 students for free!

To book contact mark@atcomputers.co.uk

Please send payment for the attention of: Mark Talbot, Bodmin College, Lostwithiel Road, Bodmin, PL31 1DD

 

Dance Angles Resource Packs

The Dance Angles Resource Packs for KS1/KS2 and Dance Francais are designed specifically for non-specialist Primary teachers to deliver fresh, innovative, high quality lessons in dance, and dance with the introduction of French. The packs contain an original music CD and step-by-step lesson plans which are NC referenced. Themes cover a wide range of topics which complement the KS1/KS2 curriculum. The resources support the PeSSCL Strategy and have been successfully piloted in Somerset Sports Partnerships with very positive feedback.

Coming Soon ... Dance Resources for KS3

PDM - Stewart Collins – Sedgemoor & Mendip School Sport Alliance "Sessions inspire both girls and boys with positive affects on self confidence, creativity, social interaction, movement vocabulary and performance skills"

Our Dance Workshops complement curriculum topics of your choice, reinforce learning and explore issues. They may be used to introduce or conclude a topic, to incorporate performance skills and inspire further learning. Sessions can be developed to suit your requirements through one-off topics or Theme Days.

Click on the following link to find out more about each pack:

www.danceangles.com/packs.htm

Please contact us for more details!

Rosie Thorner (SSCo) Mob: 07919540950

Dance Angles Ltd
Jasmine House, Hillway, Charlton Mackrell, Somerton, Somerset TA11 6AN
Telephone 01458 224573 – Fax 01458 224007 – email dance@danceangles.com – www.danceangles.com

2-Day Half-Term Children’s Photography workshop

Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th October

The Exchange Gallery, Newlyn
10am – 3.30pm - £15 for both days

11 – 16 year olds will learn new skills under the guidance of a professional photographer.
All equipment is provided but you can bring your own along.

If you would like to attend or request further information, please contact Tressa Lapham-Green on 01736 363715 or email: mail@newlynartgallery.co.uk

 

Young People’s Film School- 29 November

Saturday 29th November
10am – 4pm FREE
The Exchange, Newlyn

Young people (11 – 18 year olds) will receive an introduction to basic filmmaking techniques led by artist Amanda Lorens. No previous experience required.

If you would like to attend or receive further information, please contact Tressa Lapham-Green on 01736 363715 or mail@newlynartgallery.co.uk

 

Bright Young Things- Cornwall's Youth Culture Show at the Eden Project- deadline 29 November

Are you age 13-20 living in Cornwall?
Are you the next Banksy, Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen, Annie Leibovitz, Philip Pullman, Wade Robson, Spielberg?
Do you want your voice to be heard and your work to be seen?

If the answer to those questions is yes then this winter the Eden Project is looking for you!

We are hoping to find a new generation of Bright Young Things to kick off 2009 with a bang. The talented winners from the six following categories will perform or display their work at Eden in January and join the long list of artists who have shown or performed at the Project.

The categories:
• Music • Dance/performance • Film/animation
• Photography • Art • Creative Writing


Each category has its own brief so contact our Box Office on 01726 811972 or visit www.edenproject.com/brightyoungthings to get a copy of the details for your category.

Applications close on Saturday 29 November.

Along with having your work shown at Eden, all winners will be invited with their VIP guests to visit Eden during January 2009. And all successful contributors will be entered into a draw to win one of ten pairs of 2009 Eden Sessions tickets.

Free Singing Workshops for Children with the Pearl of Africa Children's Choir

THE ESSENTIAL INFO:

WHAT: A FREE 2 day singing/vocal workshop led by professional musicians and members of The Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir from Uganda

WHERE: Saltram House (NT), Plymouth
WHEN: Monday and Tuesday 27th and 28th October 2008 (Half Term)
WHO FOR: A group of 25 x 10 - 12 year olds (From year 5, 6 and 7)

There are also 2 places available for nominated Youth Leaders (15 - 16 year olds)

Workshop places are FREE for 10 – 12 year olds (and youth leaders) – but places are LIMITED and in DEMAND. Bookings are made on a first come, first served basis.

The Pearl of Africa Children's Choir is made up of talented children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Uganda. Their workshops introduce children to Ugandan singing, music, dance and culture. This choir is now not only well known in Africa but also have an international following in the UK and USA and have been featured on BBC and Channel 4 TV. Typical comments after workshops and performances include "overwhelmed by their talent and enthusiasm", “awesome” and “their voices, music and dancing are superb"

This is a wonderful opportunity for children in Cornwall and West Devon to work alongside children from Uganda. The schools from which the choir members come are run locally by a charitable foundation that provides housing and schooling for orphaned and destitute children. The Choir tour the UK with a full schedule of workshops and performances and in so doing raise awareness and the desperately required funds to help sustain and improve the standard of education, healthcare and living standards in their schools.

In order to obtain a place participants need to complete a booking form which can be downloaded here.

Please do get in touch if you require any further information or a poster to display.

Jude Page, Project Manager, audiovoice

Tel: 01209 313200

E: admin@actcornwall.org.uk

 

Hofesch Schechter dance workshop- 1 December 2008

Monday 1st December 9.30 – 12.30

Venue: Truro, exact studio location TBC

Cost: £15

A three hour workshop for dance professionals with the UK’s hottest dance company of the moment! Preceding the show on Tuesday 2nd December. The workshop will involve technique class and repertory. The workshop will be shared with Truro College FDA students so the level will be pitched at undergraduate level.

Only 10 places – allocated on a first come first serve basis upon receiving payment.

Contact The Works to book: 01872 261770

 

Free Training for anyone who teaches singing to primary aged children- 14 November 2008

Find Your Voice!- Free training for Primary teachers, Singing leaders, Play workers, Youth Workers and Community Musicians.

To:

Develop your skills in leadiing singing with groups of primary aged children

Develop your knowledge and confidence in leading singing across the KS2 curriculum

Learn about vocal techniques, accessible approaches, and broaden your repertoire

Learn from professional vocal leaders

The workshop on 14 November will be led by Lin Marsh and will include a deonstration class and discussion, safe practice and exploring the voice,  and easy conducting and part singing.

To be held at Plymouth Music Zone. For more info please download flyer here

Any queries, contact Bernie Artuso, Devon Area Sing Up Leader on PMZDevon@singup.org or Tel 01752 213690

 

Spend a day with Cornwall Youth Dance Company in Half term!


Come and join in a fun day of taster workshops in the half term with directors of CYDC and Cscape Dance Company Sally Williams and Helen Tiplday. You will take part in a Contemporary class and some creative work, gain experience and have fun!

Cornwall Youth Dance Company is a specialist Contemporary dance company for young people in Cornwall. To enable as many young people in Cornwall as possible to benefit from the high level of training, CYDC will be opening its doors over half term for young people to come and have a day of training and fun and learn what CYDC is all about.

Day of Dance for 13-18 year olds

Monday 27th October 11 – 3pm
at the Keay Theatre Dance Studio, St Austell cost £10

Day of Dance for 8-12 year olds

Tuesday 28th October 11- 3
at the Keay Theatre Dance Studio, St Austell cost £10

To book please fill in the booking form available to download here and post with a cheque made payable to The Works to:

The Works, Dance & Theatre Cornwall Ltd, Crusader House, Newham Quay, Truro TR1 2DP.
For more information please call The Works on 01872 261770

WHAT IS CYDC?
CYDC is a contemporary based youth dance company that provides talented young dancers aged between 13 and 19 with professional dance training and exciting performance opportunities.
CYDC meets twice a month to train and create choreography which is performed both in Cornwall and across the southwest. CYDC members have great fun, make lasting friendships and develop their level of dance to a very high level through training and performances. Members of CYDC have gone on to train at many of the leading dance schools in the UK, such as Laban, London School of Contemporary Dance, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Rambert, London Studio Centre and Stella Mann to name but a few. Many members now work as dancers in professionally in dance companies and musicals, as well as teaching dance and choreography both here and abroad.

 

Tree Magic- storytelling workshop to celebrate National Tree Week

Storyteller David Heathfield has developed a workshop to celebrate National Tree week 26 November to 7 December 2008.

Age Range: KS1/ KS2

Event Aims and Description:
To bring students close to trees growing nearby, both physically and imaginatively through stories, and to give them an intimate insight into traditional folklore associated with trees and the magic living in and around them…Oak, Beech, Birch, Ash, Holly, Apple, Pear…
To create new stories inspired by the stories told and features of the environment.
To develop speaking and listening skills.
Two key outcomes of Every Child Matters: Enjoying and achieving and Making a positive contribution are achieved in this workshop, which has the following stages:

1. The interactive telling of traditional tales in the course of a storywalk among trees in the vicinity of the school (woodland, parks, on school premises etc.)
2. Students bring parts of these stories to life through spontaneous drama activities and guided mental imagery
3. (Back in school) Story creating: students create one or more new stories inspired by features of the environment. They create these new tales collaboratively through speaking, listening and multi-sensory activities.
4. The session culminates in a mini storytelling and drama performance of one or more of these newly-created tales with the full participation of all the students, including songs, choral chants, percussion

Curriculum links:
English, Drama, Geography, Environmental Studies, PSHE, RE, History

For more information please download the flyer here

 

Children's Competition- Design Your Own Pumpkin Carriage! - deadline 20 October

Would you like to see your very own Pumpkin Carriage brought to life, as if by magic?
Would you like the chance to win a family pack of tickets to see Cinderella at Hall for Cornwall this
Christmas AND a mystery prize from toy company World’s Apart?

This Christmas, Hall for Cornwall presents Cinderella and is offering children across Cornwall the chance to get creative and design Cinders’ pumpkin carriage!

The winning design will be carved out of a real pumpkin and put on display at Hall for Cornwall. On top of this, the first prize winner will receive a family pack of tickets to the show and a World’s Apart ‘Ready Bed’ – perfect for all those winter sleepovers! 2 runners up will also win Ready Beds.

The best designs will be imaginative and practical, so it’s a great project for Design & Technology lessons.

The competition is open to children aged 5 -12 and closes on October 20th.

Click here to download the entry form and design sheet

Are you a young person between 16 – 19 yrs who would like to find out more about teaching dance?

You might want to set up a regular session for younger children or teach some dance ideas to your friends. Or maybe you are going off to college and would like to come back and teach dance in Cornwall.

Over the last year attik dance have been working with young people in South East Cornwall supported by funding from Lankelley Chase. As part of that funding we would like to offer the opportunity out to young people who are interested in developing their teaching skills to come and watch or join in the sessions and talk to us about your own ideas. This is open to anyone between the ages of 16 and 19 who is passionate about dance and keen to find out more about teaching dance or expand their teaching skills.

Sessions run on Tuesday evenings in Liskeard from 5 – 6.30. This term we will be working towards a performance platform at the end of November. We also run holiday courses which would provide an opportunity to see another side of our work.

Please email Sally Robbins at sally@attik.org.uk if you are interested in benefiting from this opportunity. Alternatively you can call us on 01752 563386

 

Music Changes Lives conference 19 November - booking deadline 17 October

MUSIC CHANGES LIVES is a one day conference presented by the Cornwall Music Therapy Trust as a follow-up to the charity launch in November 2006. The day will take place on Wednesday 19th November at Bedruthan Steps Hotel, Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, TR8 4BU from 9.00am to 5.30pm, and include a lunchtime concert.

'MUSIC CHANGES LIVES’ is for parents and carers of children receiving music therapy and music teaching;
SEN related teaching assistants, governors, teachers and Headteachers; medical staff and students;
those with an interest in music therapy and music education or involved in arts therapies;
for students interested in a career in music therapy and other professionals as a CPD event.

The cost of the conference will be £75.00 payable in advance not later than 17th October and will include lunch and refreshments and lunchtime concert.

For more information download the flyer here and the booking form here

 

Free Support & Training opportunities for Teachers in 14-19 Diploma


14-19 Diploma Support Programme: Preparing Practitioners Free Training opportunities are available to schools, training providers and colleges to help support new Diploma planning and delivery for Gateways
1, 2 and beyond. Events or workshops are delivered regionally by the SSAT (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust). Bespoke training or consultancy is delivered by LSN (Learning and Skills Network) plus a website which provides a central point for practitioners to access resources, book on to events and share outcomes. Finally Pearson Education are developing a range of generic and line specific materials which will be distributed at the autumn events and available on line there-after.

From LSN Consortia are entitled to 3 days’ bespoke training / consultancy per line of learning offered, choosing from a menu of 18 topics grouped under the following themes:
Pedagogical approaches
Personalising learning
Assessment
Collaboration
Curriculum strategies
Diploma delivery

An objective “health check” will be available to Gateway 1 consortia, described as a Delivery Health Check and a second model called Preparation Health check for Gateway 2 consortia, likely to be most useful in the
spring or summer terms.

Visit www.diploma-support.com/2009andbeyond to access core and bespoke Diploma training opportunities, vocational / applied learning training, IAG training and support materials or contact Rosie Russell, LSN Diploma Training Consultant, rosierussell21@hotmail.co.uk tel: 0775 383 6809 for further information and advice.

 

Extended Services & the Arts evaluation report

KEAP's Extended Services & the Arts programme looked at ways in which the creative and cultural sector could impact on Extended Services.

Origins of KEAP’s extended services programme
KEAP’s extended services programme has been funded by the Cornwall Arts Partnership (a partnership of the county and districts arts’ offices and the Arts Council – all districts are signed up to it except Carrick) with match funding from Creative Partnerships. It was delivered by KEAP, Creative Partnerships, RiO and The Works with the Hall for Cornwall, Tate St Ives and North Cornwall Activities Network.

The aims:
• To ensure that the arts are firmly embedded into the extended services core offer.
• To explore ways in which the arts can support the extended services agenda and the opportunities which this can offer for the schools, artists and partner organisations, within both the arts and the wider community.
• To explore the impact the cultural sector can have on the extended services provision.

The programme was delivered through three strands – Support, Information and
Signposting, Training, and Action Research.

To download the full evaluation report click here.

To download the Executive Summary & Case Studies only click here.

mybluesky creative confidence programme for teachers in East Cornwall

Because we know that creativity is a hot topic for schools in the light of the government’s Creative Britain report and the new Find Your Talent programme, we are offering this tried and tested CPD programme that demystifies creative strategies and boosts confidence and self-esteem both for teachers and for the young people they work with.

Places are now being made available to East Cornwall’s teachers and educators to attend the mybluesky creative confidence programme in Plymouth.

mybluesky is also now officially accredited through a partnership with UWE, so participant teachers can earn 30 credits towards a PG Cert/Dip or MA.

This innovative CPD programme comprises a progressive series of creative thinking workshops, 1:1 support sessions and personal inspirational challenges, timetabled in afternoon and after-school slots to minimise supply cover over two terms

Thanks to valuable sponsorship from the Real ideas Organisation, the September 08 programme costs just £496 per participant, and is suitable for educators and those working with young people in all settings, including early years, primary, secondary and tertiary establishments and independent youth organisations.

If you'd like to be part of our September course you'll have to be quick - the first session starts on Friday September 19th at the Plymouth Arts Centre.

It's easy: for a free information pack or booking info, contact Laura Martin on 07966 862630 or email her at laura.martin@realideas.org

 

Action for Children's Arts launches manifesto

Action for Children’s Arts, the UK's umbrella body on behalf of all arts organisations providing arts for and working with children, has launched the UK’s first ‘Manifesto for Children’s Arts’ at its conference at The Unicorn Theatre in London.

The delivery of the Manifesto was well-received by the packed house that consisted of senior government officials, politicians, school teachers, children’s rights workers, and delegates from all areas of the arts.

The Manifesto calls for government, political parties, schools Arts Councils, arts organisations, local authorities and the media to all help develop special policies for producing and promoting the arts to children and to work to raise the profile of this vital but often marginalised and under funded area. It is in direct accordance with Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which states that all world’s children are entitled to have access to the arts.

www.childrensarts.org.uk

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Extended Services & the Arts

The first phase of KEAP’s programme exploring how the cultural sector can support the Extended Services core offer is coming to an end with some great results and stories. Here’s a taster of some of the quite different projects that took place.

Looe- Positive Touch
Over the last 5 months, over 400 young people, parents and teachers in the Looe area have had the opportunity to take part in an exciting and innovative programme of work built around emotional health and wellbeing. Using the peer to peer Massage in Schools Programme (MISP) as its foundation (www.misa.org.uk) , practitioners Mary Gander and Lin Hudson worked with young people, their teachers and parents to explore emotional literacy and positive touch, taking the children on imaginative and creative journeys through sensory worlds using touch, movement, music, visualisation, visual arts and story.

Phoenix Theatre at Penryn College
Penryn College worked with actor and playwright Jon Welch through their after school drama club. This quickly became more than a club and was renamed ‘Phoenix Theatre’. Sarah Childs, Head of Creative Arts at the College explained the impact of this work on the college and the students.

“From the outset this project excited the students and fully engrossed them in the opportunity on offer. Students quickly realised that the play was going to be written for them giving a real sense of purpose and creativity. To work with a professional playwright from the initial concept of the theme right through to its final performance was undoubtedly a unique experience for all our students and one they felt passionately engaged with.

Brannel Young Theatre Goers
Working with eight students from Brannel School and the Hall for Cornwall, KEAP through support from the Cornwall Arts Partnership and The Works, have enabled a two way process looking at the perceptions of young people’s theatregoing. The Brannel group have seen six performances at the Hall for Cornwall and been encouraged to discuss these shows and give critical feedback to the venue on their experience. They were challenged to market a seventh show to their friends and successfully brought a group of over eighty to see Dodgy Clutch’s Elephant- this was entirely organised by the students. The Hall for Cornwall is pleased with the audience development potential of this process. The venue has also begun to take a critical look at the experience of theatre going for young people and how box office, front of house and catering all contribute to the experience, as well as the show itself.


The young people have grown in confidence, knowledge and levels of criticality and are beginning to take risks with their choice of theatregoing. They now better understand the financial imperatives of running a large venue and its broad remit but remain resolute in their goal of influencing HfC to programme work to appeal to teenagers. As a consequence of the project they have been invited by the Chief Executive to help programme a week in the Spring season.

North Cornwall After School Art Clubs
Jon Bell, Extended Services Coordinator for North Cornwall, tells us about the trials and successes of running art clubs in North Cornwall.

“The scheme to develop after-school art clubs grew from a necessity under the Extended Schools requirements for schools to deliver access to arts and cultural activities both after school and in the holidays. In the North Cornwall area there was very little obvious means for this to be developed. Having received an indication from KEAP that they were interested in working with local artists in an after-school context, there was therefore, little hesitation in responding positively.

The scheme has worked very well, and by the end of the summer term most schools will have received at least one five week art club programme and in many cases more than one. Headteachers report considerable satisfaction with the scheme. The only difficulty has been a delay in implementing the programme in a number of schools simply due to lack of available artists. So, our next challenge is to recruit more artists from the North Cornwall area to make this networked resource for the schools really work…if you’re an artist in North Cornwall and you’re interested in running after school art clubs then please contact us!”

Please contact Helen Reynolds on helen.reynolds@keap.org.uk for more info and an application form. Please note artists need to live in the North Cornwall area.

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WildWise outstanding training events this Autumn

This Autumn WildWise is running a programme of outstanding training events to develop skills and resources, and to inspire professionals working in the field of outdoor and environmental education. These courses are designed particularly for teachers, rangers, forest school leaders, outdoor instructors, educators and students. We still have places available on the following events -
(Please note pricing structure for organisations/individuals)

October 17-20 ‘Muir Trek’ Training - Jon Cree
Inspired by the wilderness journeys of John Muir, this rare opportunity will train (and qualify!) you how to lead these zestful, meaningful sunrise to sunset journeys. Led by the International Training Co-ordinator for The Institute for Earth Education. Cost: £275/£195
http://www.wildwise.co.uk/muir-trek-training.html

October 22 Environmental Storytelling
Chris Salisbury aka ‘Spindle Wayfarer’
This highly creative workshop will explore the relationship between stories, storytelling and the natural world around us, with its application to school and community groups. Cost: £80/£50
http://www.wildwise.co.uk/environmental-storytelling.html

October 23 Fieldcraft Skills
(Fieldcraft is the practice of nature awareness.) This activity-packed day offers skills and resources for environmental educators/teachers etc to use to inspire their client-groups to get close to nature. Cost: £80/£50
http://www.wildwise.co.uk/fieldcraft-skills.html

November 4 Forest Skills
Resourcing/inspiring Forest School leaders, rangers, education officers etc who aspire to spend meaningful time in the woods with children, and require the necessary practical skills to do it. Cost: £80/£50
http://www.wildwise.co.uk/forest-skills-1.html

November 5 Forest Skills 2
Resourcing/inspiring Forest School leaders, rangers, education officers etc who aspire to spend meaningful time in the woods with children, and require the practical skills to do it. Cost: £80/£50
http://www.wildwise.co.uk/forest-skills-2.html

November 25 Education for Sustainable Development - Jon Cree
‘How organisations can work with schools to support delivering ESD’.
This day will look at phases from foundation to GCSE to examine how organisations involved in sustainable development can link into school initiatives. Cost: £95/£60
http://www.wildwise.co.uk/esd.html

November 26 Emotional Literacy - Jon Cree
This day contains strategies and techniques for working with emotional literacy in the outdoors to support learner development. This workshop is a must for both environmental educators and teachers.Cost: £95/£60
http://www.wildwise.co.uk/emotional-literacy.html

Chris and Jo, WildWise Events Ltd, Foxhole, Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EB

Tel: 01803 868269
Mobile: 0781 349 2825

Email: enquiries@wildwise.co.uk
Website: www.wildwise.co.uk

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Tate Teachers: Autumn update - new courses and information

A programme of continuing professional development for teachers, teaching assistants and student teachers

Tate St Ives CPD programme for teachers aims to open up the possibilities of using visual art in the classroom through informal events and courses. Remember, trainee teachers and TAs are entitled to half-price courses.

Creative Thinking for Gifted & Talented (KS1-5) - Monday 10 November 2008 - 10.00-16.00
Ticket: £50 (£25 for trainees and TAs)
Focus on using original artworks as a way of developing higher order questioning, evaluation, reasoning, analysis and creative thinking.

SEN – Multi-sensory environments for learning (KS1-5) - Monday 12 January 2009 - 10.00-16.00
Ticket: £50 (£25 for trainees and TAs)
This course will take place at the Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden where we will sample different strategies for approaching learning in a gallery space as well as try out a range of activities to encourage independent learning.

Teachers in Partnership
A year-long CPD opportunity designed to develop ideas and relationships across a range of displays. Please contact me if you are interested for 2009/10.

Congratulations to TiP 2007/08 schools who have just completed this course:
Gwinear CP School

St Uny CofE School
Bodriggy Primary School

Roche CP School
Poltair School

And welcome to TiP 2008/09 schools:
Nancledra School

St Levan CP School
Parc Eglos School

St Michaels VCCE School
Wadebridge School

Truro School

Resources
Free Teacher Resource Notes are available for each changing exhibition at Tate St Ives as well as the Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden. Archived notes and teachers notes from all four Tate sites are available to download for free online at www.tate.org.uk

Current, and a selection of past, exhibition posters are available to schools from the Learning Office free of charge.

If you would like further information about the full Tate Teachers programme at Tate St Ives, or would like to be added to an email distribution list please contact:

KERRY RICE
Learning Curator: Schools & Teachers, Tate St Ives, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall. TR26 1TG
Call 01736 791114 Email kerry.rice@tate.org.uk

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ITV Fixers opportunities for young people 16-25

ITV Fixers is a major campaign across the ITV Meridian and West regions where young people (16-25) can take action on anything they feel strongly about, changing things for the better. Young people can “fix” anything so long as it’s something useful and helps someone else. It could be something practical, creative, sporty, campaigning.... anything. We are inviting young people to make a short film about their project which will be uploaded online onto the ITV local dedicated site and possibly shown on the ITV news over the next 18 months. We have no limit to the number of films that can be uploaded and we are expecting a diverse range of topics to be covered in all kinds of ways.

We have a New Media team who can offer help with filming and borrowing of equipment if it is needed and we endeavour to support all young people involved throughout the process. We obviously want the young people to feel pleased and proud of their achievements but we are not censoring any films submitted on grounds of quality – we want everyone to be included regardless of ability and we will do our best to make sure that this happens. We recognise that sometimes you will be working with young people who are not in our target age range but we are happy for you to develop projects that involve others alongside 16-25 year olds.

Everyone who participates is awarded a certificate and an ITV Fixers branded DVD of their film. We also offer to provide a reference for them outlining how they have personally been involved with ITV Fixers. We can work with you to help publicise what you do and ensure your young people get the most out of their involvement.

Visit our website at www.itvfixers.com

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Inclusive Percussion Workshops

BOOK NOW FOR EXCITING WORKSHOP PACKAGES THAT:
> Develop participants personally and socially.
> Are fun and relevant to curriculum’s for schools and youth work (see below for details).
> Are inclusive to any age group and any learning and physical ability.
> Promote awareness of recycling

CURRICULUM
Workshops focus on developing creativity, observation skills, self-esteem, performance and social skills. Within the workshop we can also use junk percussion to promote a strong environmental message and discuss issues, creating more awareness about recycling.
KEY STAGES 1, 2 & 3 (LINKS THROUGH)
> Controlling sounds through playing and performing skills

> Creating and developing musical Ideas

>Responding and reviewing – appraising skills

>Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding


For more details of how our workshops link to required learning outcomes for key stages 1,2 & 3 of the UK national curriculum please click on the following link www.weaponsofsound.com – Enter the site – Click ‘Performances and Workshops – Click Education and then click on the blue link at the top of the page.


All junk workshops contribute to the Every Child Matters outcomes of Being Healthy, Staying Safe, Enjoying & Achieving, Making a Positive Contribution and Achieving Economic Well-being. We have also started planning and doing a project that will relate directly to the governments new ‘Making Every Child’s Music Matter’ Manifesto.

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Tate online course in artists’ techniques

The Artists' Techniques and Methods course will introduce you to a number of key works in Tate's collection and examine the techniques the artists used to create their work. You will look at a range of techniques from drawing, watercolour, collage and oil painting. The course is divided into six units. Each unit examines different artists in Tate's collection and looks at how they created their work. The units contain video clips and step-by-step guides to using the techniques to create your own art works at home.

The course costs £20 and is available through the Tate website at www.tate.org.uk/learnonline/onlinecourses/artiststechniques

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Everybody Writes

Everybody Writes is a web-based resource that offers classroom teachers innovative ideas and practical resources to get primary pupils and secondary students excited about writing. The Everybody Writes approach is about exploring writing beyond the classroom and taking it into the playground, communities and even the workplace. Everybody Writes encourages schools to try out new and interesting ways of initiating writing and to offer their young people a real audience for their writing. The project is run in partnership by Booktrust and The National Literacy Trust and funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

We have a new News and Events page on the site where I am collating opportunities for teacher inset, competitions and opportunities for children’s writing and I tend to want to advertise things at least a month before they happen, just so teachers have enough time to book up.

I’m also always on the lookout for examples of exciting writing projects being run in schools, so if you have anything of that nature going on it would be great to hear about it. It can be projects that have happened already maybe?

For more information contact:

Anna McKerrow
Project Officer, Everybody Writes
Tel: 0208 875 4587 Anna.McKerrow@booktrust.org.uk

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Stephen Petronio at Hall for Cornwall- reduced price tickets for students!

The Hall for Cornwall have very kindly extended the £6 ticket offer (normally only available for groups) to individual students for Stephen Petronio- a great opportunity for you and your students to see some world class dance at an absolute bargain price! Next Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th October 8pm. Just ring the box office, say you are a student or a teacher and pay £6 as opposed to £15!

Any problems, call Sally Williams at the Works on 01872 261821

 

Below by Cscape- final two shows

Cscape’s below has it’s final two shows this week. The show which has had great reviews consists of three works by Sally Williams, Helen Tiplady and TC Howard. The show is really accessible so a great one for your students to see, and combines dance, film, text and set design along with a cracking sound score with a good lashing of Cscape’s sense of humour and high energy physicality

See www.cscape.org.uk

10th October 7.30 pm St Kew Community Hall 01208 841746

11th October 7.30 pm Perranporth Memorial Hall 01872 572121

 

Devon Primary Literacy Conference- 3 February 2009

The 2008 Devon Primary Literacy Conference 'Talk for Writing' has a focus on storytelling and features workshops by local storytellers.

Download the full conference info and booking form here

 

The Big Draw 2008

There's an extraordinary range of Big Draw activity across the UK throughout October. You can use the search facility on www.campaignfordrawing.org to locate your nearest event. Click on Join an Event. Wherever you live, there should be an event that appeals to you. If not, why not persuade your nearest arts or educational venue to register with the event for 2009?

In this area there are events listed in Plymouth, Newquay, Bodmin, Callington, Fowey, Falmouth, Penzance, Saltash, St Just & St Austell.

www.thebigdraw.org

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Tate St Ives Winter Season Exhibitions 2008

Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection

4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009

Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig (b1958) is one of the most significant artists working in Europe today. Over the last twenty five years he has exhibited extensively all over the world creating a considerable body of work that includes sculpture, video, painting, installation, architectural intervention and performance. He has collaborated with artists including Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Franz West and was included in Documenta X, Documenta 11 and the 49th Venice Biennale. This exhibition at Tate St Ives will be the first time his work has been shown in the UK: it tours to the Centro de Arte Moderna at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon in January 2009.

Much of Zobernig’s work critically engages with various modern art movements, including abstraction, constructivism, minimalism, post-minimalism and conceptual art, as well as with architecture, design and theatre. He appropriates various art histories in order to question the ideological position and conditions which underpin them, subverting and reinterpreting them with a lightness of touch and an economy of material, means and methodology that is at turns playful, dry, witty, unsettling and disarming.

Opening hours: March–October daily 10.00–17.20, last admission 17.00
November–February, Tuesday–Sunday 10.00–16.20, last admission 16.00
Admission: £5.75; £3.25 concessions; free to under 18s and Members

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Aimhigher Creative Steps Touring Exhibition 2008

A celebratory exhibition of artwork by young people in the South West will open at The Design Centre, Tremough Campus, Penryn on Wednesday 2nd July 2008 and then tour to Plymouth and Dartington in the Autumn.

The Aimhigher Creative Steps Project was established in 2002 to raise aspirations in 14-19 year olds in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and to increase their knowledge and understanding of Further and Higher Education.

This Exhibition documents and celebrates the achievements of the young people who have participated so far in the Aimhigher Creative Steps Project. Much of the artwork created can also been seen on the Creative Steps website (www.CreativeSteps.org.uk) which provides information and guidance for young people about arts courses currently on offer at Further and Higher Education institutions across the South West.

Dates: University College Falmouth Tremough Campus: 2nd-5th July
Plymouth College Of Art & Design, Plymouth: 5th-14th November
Dartington College Of Arts, Dartington, Totnes: 18th-22nd November

Any schools wishing to visit the Exhibition please contact Sue Loydell on 01326 213746 or email Sue.Loydell@falmouth.ac.uk


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