Creative Junction

Creative Partner - St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:44:20 -0700

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Bracknell and Creative Partnerships wish to contract a creative partner to support the delivery of their creative learning programme.

Deadline for submission: 4.00 pm, Friday 10 September 2010

The background

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is heading towards its third year of the Creative Partnerships Change Schools programme. Over the academic year 2010-11, the school will be working in partnership with staff, young people, parents and creative partners to further develop cross-phase and cross-curricular teaching and learning, as the school has been addressing the question:

"How can we improve our ability to make connections in our teaching and learning and how can the visual medium and the outdoor space of the school enable us to do this?"

Visual artist Jon Lockhart continues to work with us on the programme and now the school would like to engage an additional practitioner(s) with particular skills and expertise in creative outdoor learning.

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Creative Partner - adult/family learning project

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:16:51 -0700

Creative Partner(s) required to deliver on two exciting adult / family learning projects from October to November 2010

The project is a joint venture between Reading Borough Council's Culture and Sport Development Service and Creative Junction. We will be working in partnership with two local SureStart Children Centres to deliver on two programmes to engage parents / carers and families with children aged 0-5 years.

Deadline for applications: 10^th September at 12pm

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Creative Partner - Tackley Primary School

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:10:06 -0700

Tackley Church of England Primary School, Oxfordshire wish to contract one Creative Partner to support the delivery of their project as a Change School.

The background:

Building on the success of two previous enquiry based projects on raising pupils' aspirations and developing their abilities to explore stories within their community, Tackley School now wishes to look at developing oral story telling skills. The school will be linking this with critical thinking skills, all teachers will be trained this year in P4C (Philosophy for Children). Over the Spring and early Summer terms the school will be working in partnership with staff, young people and Creative Partners to produce inspiring learning activities that relate to the development objectives of the school and Creative Partnerships.

The brief:

The project will explore the techniques used in oral story telling, using traditional stories from around the world. The work will link with the schools work on teaching critical thinking skills. The school is particularly interested in exploring how oral story telling links with children's own creative story writing. In addition to storytelling we are planning to work with a printmaker to create illustrations and inspirational source material for our stories and enquiry.

Dealine for applications: 24^th September 2010

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