CREATIVE PRACTITIONER OPPORTUNITY
Borough Council
13th November 2009
Hazeldene Lower School in Bedford is working in partnership with UKCCA as an ‘inquiry school’ for creative partnerships. The programme will take place between Dec 2009 and June 2010 at Hazeldene Lower School in Bedford, with the majority of the work being done in the spring term.
We are looking for a creative practitioner/s who can work in partnership with staff and young people to produce inspiring learning activities that relate to the development objectives of Creative Partnerships and of the school -around ‘speaking and listening’ skills.
The brief
The school is looking to develop creative approaches to ‘speaking and listening’ skills with year 2 pupils. We are focusing on ‘speaking and listening’ with the aim that it will also improve reading and writing skills especially among boys,
The school is particularly interested in collaborating with creative practitioners who use; storytelling, poetry, puppetry, sound, new media or music, or a combination of these.
We are looking for inspirational practitioners who can work closely with staff and children to plan, develop and deliver an exciting creative learning programme which will improve attainment, help raise self esteem and also inspire the rest of the school.
The Enquiry Question:
“How can the creative use of storytelling help to engage children in speaking and listening?â€
Selection Criteria
Applicants will need to demonstrate:
• A high standard in your current creative practice
• The value of your creative practice to the creative learning programme
• Experience OR An ability to take creative risks and experiment with new creative approaches and encourage and enable others to do the same
• Experience OR An ability to work collaboratively with young people and others to develop the programme, which will be delivered to a wider student group
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and the ability to liaise with school staff and other creative partners and partnership organisations
• Experience OR An ability to reflect and revise and encourage and enable others to do the same
The application process
Young people may be involved in the recruitment process so please consider this in the wording of your application. It would also be interesting and useful to see or hear examples of your work so please do send us any images, CDs, DVDs etc. If you are selected for interview, there will also be an opportunity for you to give a 5min presentation of your work.
Please tell us in no more than two sides of A4:
• How you meet the selection criteria
• How you think your creative practice can benefit young people’s learning
• How you feel you would gain from working on the programme
• Reference details from two recent projects
Essential requirements
You will need to have a current enhanced CRB check (less than two years old) and public liability insurance. We will also need to have details of two referees who have knowledge of work you have undertaken recently in schools.
Contractual information
The programme will run from Dec 2009-June 2010 with a total fee available of up to £3000 (inclusive of vat, travel and expenses) for up to 15 days including familiarisation, planning, project delivery and reflection and evaluation.
The programme will be delivered through a mixture of full and half day sessions in school – exact dates and times to be planned. Sessions will take place in term time only.
Timetable
25th Nov, 5pm Deadline for submissions
26th Nov Short listing and informing candidates for interview
1st Dec Interviews
16th Dec Planning with young people, teachers etc
Jan/Feb 2010
Date t.b.c ‘Preparing For Partnerships’/development/planning day
At UKCCA
Jan-May 2010 Delivery of the programme – including monitoring and reflection
June 2010 Final reflection of programme
Applications
Please email by 5pm on 25th Nov to: Jessica@norcottarts.co.uk
Any supporting documentation, CDs, DVDs etc can be posted to:
Jo Sumner, Hazeldene Lower School, Stancliffe Road, Bedford, MK41 9AT
Hazeldene Lower School www.hazeldene.org.uk
Creative Partnerships www.creative-partnerships.com
Creative Partnerships is the government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of children and young people across England, raising their aspirations, achievements, skills and life chances. It is one of a number of programmes generated by the new national organisation Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE).
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