FURTHER CREATIVE PRACTITIONER OPPORTUNITIES
Borough Council
13th November 2009
Goldington Green Lower School enquiry project
Goldington Green Lower School in Bedford wishes to contract up to two Creative Practitioners to support the delivery of their creative learning programme.
Deadline for submission: 5pm on Friday 27th Nov. 2009
Goldington Green Lower School in Bedford is working in partnership with UKCCA as an ‘inquiry school’ for creative partnerships. The programme will take place between Jan and June 2010.
We are looking for a creative practitioner/s who can work in partnership with staff, young people and parents to produce inspiring learning activities that relate to the development objectives of Creative Partnerships and those of the school –particularly around making learning relevant, student motivation and parental engagement.
The brief
The aim of the programme is to engage with children and parents using a variety of creative practice with a particular emphasis on ‘carnival arts’.
The school is interested in using the ‘carnival arts’ to develop team building and parental participation, initially with year 2 pupils, with the aim that the creative activities will have a cascade effect on the rest of the school during art week May 2010. We want to see if pupil disengagement can be changed through developing more collaboration with parents, other practitioners and the local community.
We are looking for inspirational practitioners who can help the school develop an engaging carnival programme and create large collaborative structures, masks, costumes or puppets which provide learning for parents, staff and children together.
The school is particularly interested in working with practitioners who can work closely with staff and children and with other practitioners which the school is already using, to plan, develop and lead the delivery of this exciting creative learning programme.
The Enquiry Question:
“Why do some children disengage and fail to meet their full potential?â€
Selection Criteria
Applicants will need to demonstrate:
• A high standard in your current creative practice
• Experience leading carnival arts projects and activities in schools
• 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 group, including students, parents and community.
• 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 send us any images, CDs, DVDs etc.
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
Enhanced CRB check (within last two years)
Public liability insurance
Reference details from two recent projects
Contractual information
The programme will run from Jan –June 2010 with a total Creative Partner 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
27th Nov Deadline for submissions
2nd Dec Short listing and informing candidates for interview
8th or 11th Dec Interviews
Jan/Feb date tbc ‘Preparing For Partnerships’/development/planning day
7th Jan 2010 Planning with young people, teachers etc
Jan-May 2010 Delivery of the programme – including monitoring and reflection
June Final reflection of programme
Applications
Please email to by 5pm on Fri 27th to: jessica@norcottarts.co.uk
Any supporting documentation, CDs, DVDs etc can be posted to: Rachel Simpson, Goldington Green Lower School, Goldington Road, Bedford, MK 41 0DP
Goldington Green Lower School: www.goldingtongreen.ik.org
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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