Events

Earlyarts Professional Development Day for Greater Manchester

run by run by CapeUK and the Arts Learning Consortium

Tuesday 29th March 2011

Castle Hill Centre, Castleton Street, Bolton BL2 2JW (Directions)

10.00 am to 3.30 pm (Refreshments from 9.30 am)

Theme: Engaging All Our Families: Building Relationships Through Arts Activities

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

Programme:

09:30 Arrival and refreshments

10:00 Welcome and Introductions

Welcome to the day by Rosie Marcus, North West Director CapeUK. Introduction from Bolton Early Years Improvement Team. Earlyarts knowledge session.

10:30 Practical Workshop

Ammie Flaxen, visual artist and Early Years Arts Consultant, facilitates creative ways of engaging parents and approaches to building relationships in which different languages and home cultures are used as positives

12.00 Networking

LUNCH (please bring a packed lunch or you can use the centre’s cafe or nearby sandwich shops)

12:45 Sharing What Works Best

A group activity to pool participants’ knowledge of family engagement projects and share challenges and successes

13:30 Case Studies of Successful Family Engagement Through the Arts

Three short and lively presentations showing different creative approaches to working with families and staff, from storytelling and visual arts to creative CPD sessions for classroom teachers and activities for dads

14:45 Refreshments

15:00 Summary of day, forthcoming events and evaluation

15:30 Finish

Places are free for Earlyarts subscribers, or £50 for non members

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