Earlyarts North West - 10.00 am to 4.00 pm on Tuesday, 10th June 2008 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
All arts, cultural and early years professionals, policy makers, sure starts, local authority advisors and training providers are invited to join the regional Earlyarts Creativity network focusing on professional development for those addressing creative practice within the context of Every Child Matters.
Members will benefit from two fantastic case study presentations, connecting with several other professionals in early creative learning, the latest news and updates from around the region, and an afternoon of practical workshops to stimulate creative thinking and skills development. To book your place, please contact Susan Hirst here or telephone 01484 685869. Meetings are open to subscribed members, who are welcome to introduce non-members for one session only. More details on membership here.
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Earlyarts
is a network of practitioners and policy makers who are involved in developing
creative practice for birth to fives. The organisation, which endeavours to get
parents and their children involved in creative play, has designed a series of
postcards that are now available for practitioners and organisations to
purchase and distribute to parents.
View the postcards here
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Events for the Family Throughout May - National Year of Reading; Mind and Body
Families can join in the celebration to promote reading through Seven Stories interactive trails and creative activities, no booking required. For more information on the National Year of Reading visit www.yearofreading.org.uk.
Visitors can also enjoy Seven Stories latest exhibition Up to Mischief with Horrid Henry which incorporates popular rogues in children's literature including Pippi Longstocking, Just William, Dennis the Menace, Peter Rabbit, My Naughty Little Sister and Clarice Bean. Expect mischief and fun at every turn! Entry is free. No booking required. Other events include:
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Through The Secret Garden - Saturday 21st June 11am-2pm. Cost: Adults £5, Children £3, under 1yrs FREE - Especially for under 5's, a delightful show led by skilled musicians followed by delicious cake and tea, art and craft and play time! This show will lead you into a mysterious, magical garden. See beautiful flowers and meet curious creatures. Sing, dance and listen to the sounds of the garden.
Summer Bugsie - 17th & 18th July 10am-3:15pm, 6-11yrs. Cost: £65 - Drama, Dance and Music - Songs and dances from the popular musical ‘Bugsy Malone'. Make colourful costumes and props in art. Play drama games, sing and play in an orchestra! Work towards a theatre performance on the second day for family and friends in the fabulous Bush Hall at 3pm.
Alice in Wonderland - 21st July 9:45am-12pm, 3-5yrs. Cost: £20 - Music and Art - Follow Alice on her amazing adventure in Wonderland. Meet the white rabbit and join the mad hatter's tea party. Visit the Queen for a spot of croquet! Make a mad hatter's hat in art.
Summer term (April 28th-July 19th): Music for under 5's (W12, W2, SW6, NW6), Group tuition (keyboard, violin, percussion & guitar), Private tuition in your home, holiday workshops, *NEW Bush Playtime for under 5's.
All held at: The Music House, 306-310 Uxbridge Road, W12 7LJ. For bookings/further details call: 020 8932 2652 www.musichouseforchildren.co.uk
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Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Bath, BA2 9BN
Creative thinking is a capacity that we can all develop and has the potential to transform our lives. The government's ambitious strategy to make ‘personalisation' a reality for children and young people in England is set out in the Gilbert Report, 2020 Vision. The goals, which include giving children a voice and supporting individual competence, have still to be fully implemented, yet schools themselves are unleashing their own positive energy to develop more creative learning communities. We plan to offer a forum for these schools to collaborate, network and seek out each other's intelligent and creative action. This ‘wisdom of crowds' will enable people directly involved in working with children and young people to identify their own capacity to effect positive change and create a contemporary, world class curriculum - a curriculum that respects the powerful and creative capacities of children and young people.
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Job Share, Part Time (0.5 FTE), Fixed Term for 12 Months
Salary £23,002 - £26,665 per annum
Ref: ACS/80482
You will be responsible for developing and coordinating the Gallery's award-winning Learning programme for Foundation Stage educators and children. You will be based within the Learning and Interpretation Team at the Whitworth Art Gallery and will work closely with a range of creative practitioners to offer an innovative and high quality learning experience for pupils. Candidates should hold a degree in education, art/design history or other relevant subject and have experience of teaching or have worked in a museum/gallery education environment.
The Whitworth Art Gallery is part of the North West Museums Hub and this post is supported by funding from MLA through Renaissance in the Regions.
The position is fixed term for 12 months to cover the maternity leave of the substantive postholder.
Application forms and further particulars are available from our website www.manchester.ac.uk/jobs If you are unable to go online you can request a hard copy of the details from Tel: 0161 275 2028, Email: centralservices-hr@manchester.ac.uk
Closing date: 28 May 2008. Please note interviews will be held on Wednesday 11 June 2008. Please quote reference.
The University will actively foster a culture of inclusion and diversity and will seek to achieve true equality of opportunity for all members of its community.
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Mainstream Theatre Arts urgently require experienced drama teachers with some ability to teach basic singing and dance for classes in primary schools right across Greater Manchester and north Cheshire. These are mostly weekly classes, and so teachers would be expected to plan their own sequences of classes to fit in with the company curriculum and guidelines.
Applicants must have a recent CRB check and should have experience of teaching primary-aged children unsupervised. They must also live in or near to the Greater Manchester area. We have some work available almost immediately with the possibility of more from September.
Please send CV immediately to info@mainstreamstudios.co.uk or to Mainstream Theatre Arts, 28 Reuben Street, Stockport SK4 1PS. Closing date for applications 24th May 2008
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Mercury News (Silicon Valley, CA), 25th April 2008
In Soquel, CA, parents and other relatives volunteer to fill the arts education gap for students at Main Street School. "Although some are not artistically inclined, 45 relatives of the elementary school's budding Kahlos and Van Goghs have volunteered to teach detailed painting, drawing and other artistic endeavours as a supplement to basic classroom art instruction. . . . Volunteers participating in the Art Docent program are trained in a standards-based curriculum focused on sequential learning that takes children on an artistic journey from drawing basic shapes in kindergarten to rendering still-life paintings of fruit in the fourth grade and detailed black-and-white pencil drawings the next year. Not only do the children benefit from a high- quality arts education at little cost to the school, but relatives get to spend time in the classroom and learn a few things about how to express themselves creatively, as well."
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20th June 2008, The Brindley, Runcorn, Cheshire
A day of presentations, discussions and drawing activities led by Eileen Adams and including:
- Why drawing?
- Drawing across the curriculum and in a variety of settings
- Supporting others to use drawing more widely - strategies, planning and goal setting
- Introduction to the Campaign for Drawing and The Big Draw
A major professional development event for: Heads, teachers and other staff from any subject area within primary, secondary and special schools; initial teacher education lecturers; arts lecturers; school improvement officers; arts and creativity managers; gallery and museum education officers; youth arts officers ... and anyone with an interest in the huge potential of drawing as a medium for learning.
More information and a booking form here or contact James Robins, telephone 0161 237 1250 or email james@capeuk.org
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The Froebel International Society's conference, 'Learning to Play - Playing to Learn' is intended for anyone interested in all aspects of play and learning within educational practice: teachers, playworkers, technical support staff, researchers, educational developers and project managers.
The conference provides excellent opportunities for formal and informal networking with experts in the field from all over the globe. The conference will be both a showcase and a critical forum on all aspects of play through plenary and themed sessions. Key speakers include David Elkind, Nancy Carlsson, Diane E Levin and Tina Bruce.
More information and details on booking can be found on the conference website here: http://www.intfroebelsoc.org/conferences.html
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