Events

Earlyarts Professional Development Day for the East of England

run by Colleges Nursery and Family Centre

Milton Country Park (Directions)

(The car park is pay and display and costs £2 a day or limited parking in road)

Wednesday 16th March 2011

10.00 am – 4.00 pm (Coffee/tea available from 9.30am)

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Theme:  Adventuring in the Outdoors

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

Aims: To share ideas for using the outdoors as a stimulus for creative learning in the early years

10.20 Earlyarts Welcome

10.20 Creative Practice Exposed – presentations and discussions on three local/regional creative learning projects:

• Colleges Nursery and Family Centre - Forest Explorers

• Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination - Adventuring in the Outdoors - case study, Filipa Periera Stubbs will be talking about the two year Forest School project carried out with Colleges Nursery Children*

• Chris Goodwin Milton Country Park Ranger and artist* - working with junior rangers and community groups

12.00 Earlyarts Knowledge – speed networking, key events coming up in the sector, review of the latest research and publications

12.30 Networking LUNCH time to explore the Country Park (please bring your own sandwiches or money for the cafe - Cafe Diem is inside the Visitor Centre). There are benches outside where you can sit if it's nice.

13.30 CPD Workshops – two practical sessions attendees will attend both during the afternoon: Please bring suitable clothing and footwear

Workshop 1 Filipa Periera-Stubbs - Adventuring in the Outdoors - the experience

Workshop 2 Colleges Nursery and Family Centre and Chris Goodwin - Enabling environments

15.30 Refreshments, Sharing Experiences learning journeys/feedback

16.00 Dates of next meetings and finish

Places are free to Earlyarts Members, £50 for non members

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* Filipa Periera Stubbs

Fillipa will be talking about the two year Forest School project carried out with Colleges Nursery children. She will be telling the stories of the children's experiences and the world they created within Milton Park, and highlighting the benefits of working creatively with children outdoors. The afternoon workshop offers practitioners the opportunity to explore and respond to the outdoor spaces for themselves with time to reflect on links to their own practice.

Fillipa is a creative practitioner who works with young people, families and early years educators in outdoors and forest school projects in Cambridgeshire. She has worked in a variety of education settings, museums and galleries. Filipa has always been, and hopes always to be, able to access nature as an ongoing inspiration for all her work.

* Chris Goodwin

Chris is a painter and sculptor working at Milton Country Park as artist in residence and ranger. He has a range of experience in community art and outdoor education and will talk about some of the projects he has been involved with. The afternoon will be an opportunity to work creatively with Chris in the outdoor environment.