Earlyarts - your children are amazing

Morning: The Levels Children’s Centre, Eastover, Langport, Somerset, TA10 9RY (Directions here)

Afternoon: Wilder Woods Forest School Drayton Somerset TA10 0JZ

Theme: Inside Outside: How outdoor spaces can lead to creative learning experiences

For: Early years practitioners, heads of centres, artists, cultural managers, local authority advisors, early years professionals, arts or cultural organisations

 

Programme :

Coffee available from 9.30am

10.00 Welcome …

10.30 Creative Practice Exposed – presentations and discussions on two creative learning

projects:

 

• ‘BIG IDEAS outdoors’ with Richard Tomlinson, Lead Creative Practitioner on Little Big

Bang in Somerset. Presenting a current outside creative learning project at The Levels

Children’s Centre with a visual artist

 

• ‘Celebration, Connections and Processions’ with Tim Hill, Somerset’s Celebratory Arts

Officer. Looking at what we mean by the celebratory arts, their relevance for the very

young and how they connect us to community, place, the seasons and the natural world.

 

11.30 Earlyarts Knowledge – key events coming up in the sector, review of the latest research and publications.

12.00 Travel to Wilder Woods Forest School (address above) for picnic lunch (bring the basics!).

13.00 Introduction to Wilder Woods Forest School and to the Forest School as a creative learning environment with Hannah Aitken, Forest School teacher and member of the Central Somerset Outdoor Learning Partnership.

13.30 CPD Workshops with workshop leaders Jenni Dutton, environmental visual artist working with the early years and Rachelle Green, independent creative movement artist. Build your practice-based skills at the same time as developing clear links to delivery mechanisms such as the Early Years Foundation Stage framework. There will be the opportunity to participate in both workshops.

15.30 Sharing Experiences and feedback around the campfire (bring marshmallows!).

16.00 Dates of next meeting and Finish.

Book your place online at www.earlyarts.co.uk

Free to subscribed members of Earlyarts, £50 for non-members, reimbursed if you subsequently take out a subscription, more details at www.earlyarts.co.uk

Bursaries available for Somerset Arts Promoters and Little Big Bang partners – Please contact Michelle at Take Art on 01460 249450 for more information

For more information about Early Years Arts in Somerset visit www.kindlingsomerset.org

 

Workshop Descriptions

Creative movement with Rachelle Green

This workshop will give you an experience of developing movement ideas through the outside environment. Exploring shapes, space and travelling, journeys and stories, we will explore a number of movement themes that can be taken back and explored in your settings. The session will also introduce how we might choose to accompany dance ideas generated outside.

 

Environmental visual arts with Jenni Dutton

We will explore a variety of ways to make dens out of bamboo from scrap store, willow grown on The Levels or just leavings from your gardens and natural spaces. These can be developed in a variety of ways to explore storytelling, weaving or just as a way to promote imaginative creative play adaptable to fit with themes that the children are involved with.