Events

Run by Earlyarts Pathfinders The Spark Children’s Arts Festival and Curve

‘Growing Stories’: language development for boys in early years

Monday 5^th December 2011

At Curve, Rutland St, Leicester, LE1 1SB

10am – 4.30pm (Coffee available from 9.30am)

Theme:  to explore ‘Growing Stories’ - a range of stimulus for language development for boys in early years

For: Early Years professionals, child carers, teachers, children’s centre staff, creative practitioners, artists

Aims:

• to understand how visual and kinaesthetic stimuli can be of particular support to boys in developing vocabulary and self-confidence in storymaking and sharing ideas.
• To look at a range of practice in Leicester aimed at supporting the creative learning of boys in early years

10am:  Earlyarts Welcome – including key events coming up nationally and locally

10.30 - 11am: Paul Gobey – Library Manager, Children’s Services Leicester City Libraries: Leicester City context and strategies for developing language and literacy in early years

11 – 11.30 Speednetworking – with focus on storymaking with boys in early years, sharing of experience, aspirations for development, local knowledge

11.30 – 1pm: Growing Stories:   Practical Workshop 1 The World of Play*

1 - .1.45pm Lunch Break (please bring your own sandwiches or money for the cafe); optional tour of the Cultural Quarter

1.45 –  3.30pm: Growing Stories:  Practical Workshop 2 Kinaesthetic and Visual Ways of Story Making*

3.30pm – tea/coffee & reflections on the day & learning journeys

4pm: Close

*Workshop 1: The morning session takes us into the world of play, focussing on experiential ways of generating vocabulary (Hand in the sand), simple games that build confidence in telling stories (And…Why? Because!), and an example of how to make a ‘living book’ (Dog Goes for a Walk)

Workshop 2: The afternoon session focuses on kinaesthetic and visual ways of story making, exploring tried and tested ways of using objects (Growing Stories) and drawing (Mapping the Story) in storytelling.  

Peter Rumney is an award winning playwright and poet. He always works with his audiences when creating a play or book, and his work for very young children includes the play / book Rainbow Stories (Paper Space Arts/Lakeside Arts Centre. Nottingham), and the participatory  science performance Cosmos – a journey to the stars (Dragon Breath Theatre /Curve/ Spark Festival).

 Peter has developed innovative approaches to engaging children of all ages with literacy, collaborating with teachers and artists from a wide range of disciplines to devise a range of approaches that respond to different learning styles.

 Peter is Joint Artistic Director of Dragon Breath Theatre (www.dragonbreaththeatre.com) and Senior Lecturer in Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University. He was Writer in Residence for a year at the Lakeside Art Gallery, and his next project with Curve is an adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels at Spark in 2012. http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/writers/49/peterrumney

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