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Earlyarts Professional Development Day

for Cumbria & Lancashire Hub run by Creative Futures, Cumbria

Thursday 2 December 2010

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle (directions here)

9.30 am – 4.00 pm

Theme: Once upon a Time… Using artefacts and pictures from museums/galleries as stimulus for storytelling and imaginative journeys.

Aims: To share ideas for using different learning settings such as museums and galleries to promote creative learning in the early years.

To develop your toolkit of strategies to build stories and stimulate young children’s imagination and linguistic development by using historical artefacts and images.

To build partnerships between artists, arts, cultural and heritage organisations, early years providers and Local Authority Children’s Services teams for more integrated delivery.

For:  Practitioners involved in early years and family learning provision in museums, galleries and libraries; early years practitioners in early years /children centre settings; early years teachers; local authority advisors, training providers, heads of children’s centres, artists; arts and cultural organisations.

Programme:

9.30 Refreshments available

10.00 Earlyarts welcome and introductions Introduction to the professional development programme, the trainers and course participants, background to Earlyarts, speed networking

10.30 A celebration of creative provision for the early years in Cumbria and North Lancashire

Presentations and discussions

Creating Imaginative Journeys - Karen McDougall, Arts Education Consultant

Magical Museums & Enchanting Artwork Arts with the Early Years in a Museum and Gallery Setting - Ros Normandale, Family Learning Interactor, Tullie House

11.30 Refreshments

11.45 Practical Workshop 1 - Whose Story is it Anyway, Karen Mc Dougall Arts Education Consultant*

12.45 Networking LUNCH, please bring a packed lunch or use Tullie House Refectory

1.45 Practical Workshop 2 -Using artefacts and exhibitions to develop creative themes for learning, Julie Wooding, Access and Learning Manager, Tullie House*

3.30 Ideas and information exchange, feedback from the day

4.00 Dates of future events and finish

Free for Earlyarts Members or £50 for non members

Book your place online and find out about membership at www.earlyarts.co.uk

* Practical Workshops:

Workshop 1: Whose Story is it anyway? Karen McDougall

Karen is an Arts Education Consultant who is experienced at working with early years in wide range of learning settings, including museums and galleries.

This workshop will focus on developing appropriate pedagogical skills to use unfamiliar objects to stimulate creative learning with young children.

Karen will use artefacts from a museum collection and work with participants to:

• explore and interpret their historical story

• use techniques that will stimulate the imagination and speaking and listening skills of young children.

• identify what aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum can be addressed through this approach.

Workshop 2: Using artefacts and exhibitions to develop creative themes for learning Julie Wooding

In her role as Access and Learning Manager, Julie Wooding has worked with colleagues to develop Early Years programmes for Tullie House and other museum settings which have focused on using artefacts and exhibitions to develop ‘themes to stimulate learning’.

Julie’s session will start with contextual information about these Early Years programmes and the process that has now been established to develop ‘themes for creative learning’ from artefacts and exhibitions.

The workshop will provide participants with opportunities to experience this process by using artefacts/ pictures from the Tullie House collection to create thematic contexts for:

• story building
• story telling
• other associated interactive learning activities such role play and drama.

The process and themes that are explored will be easily adaptable to other learning contexts.