FORZA ITALIA! ST JOHN RIGBY LOWER SCHOOLβS ENQUIRY PROJECT
Borough Council
26th November 2009
FORZA ITALIA! St John Rigby Lower Schoolâs Enquiry Project
St John Rigby Lower School, Bedford and Creative Partnerships wish to contract 2 creative practitioners: a MOSAIC ARTIST, and a CARNIVAL ARTIST, to support the delivery of their creative learning programme.
Deadline for submission: 5pm, Tuesday 8th December 2009
The background
St John Rigby Lower School in Bedford is working with Creative Partnerships as an Enquiry school.
We are looking for two creative practitioners who can work in partnership with staff and young people to produce inspiring learning activities that relate to the development objectives of Creative Partnerships & the school.
Forza Italia! is a project that explores our enquiry question:
How can we help our children of Italian heritage to make more confident progress?
The project will run from January to June 2010.
Forza Italia! will explore ways in which creative activities can increase the confidence and enthusiasm of pupils of Italian heritage in order for them to make more secure progress. It will also involve parents, grandparents and guardians so that they can support their children fully.
The enquiry question focuses on progress rather than achievement and acknowledges the importance of the children's confidence in this process.
Forza Italia! will focus upon approximately 20 year 3 and 4 pupils of Italian Heritage (The Forza group). We believe that these children will grow in confidence most fully if the whole school community values and understands their heritage. Therefore, significant elements of the project will also reach out to other children in the school, as well as parents and members of the local Italian Community
A wide range of learning and community activities are currently being planned. These include:
⢠Mosaic Project - The Forza group will work with a Creative Practitioner to design an enduring artwork for the school grounds or building using the Italian tradition of mosaic, incorporating the children's symbols of Italy. The mosaic will then be produced by all year 3 and 4 children working with the Creative Practitioner. Prior to this the Creative Practitioner will deliver an Inset session for staff. Feb/Mar 2010
⢠Forza Fashion - A fashion show with a difference! The Forza group will work with a Creative Practitioner to create carnival style costumes inspired by the children's symbols of Italy (eg. leaning tower of Pisa, Olive Tree). The 'parade' will be part of Il Finale (a final event bringing together different strands of the project). Apr/May 2010
We hope that these ideas will develop and grow once the artists are recruited and become involved in the planning.
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
⢠An ability to take creative risks and experiment with new creative approaches and encourage and enable others to do the same
⢠An ability to work collaboratively with young people, teachers and others to develop the programme
⢠Excellent communication and negotiation skills and the ability to liaise with school staff and other creative partners and partnership organisations
⢠An ability to reflect and revise and encourage and enable others to do the same
The application process
Please tell us in no more than two sides of A4:
⢠How you meet the selection criteria
⢠Your initial ideas about how you might fulfil the brief
⢠How you think your creative practice can benefit young peopleâs learning
⢠How you feel you would gain from working on the programme
⢠Reference details from two recent projects
It would also be helpful to see examples of your work so please send a small number of images as low resolution attachments.
Please send applications by email to Jo Buffery (Creative Agent) artsandlearning@btopenworld.com to arrive by 5pm on Tuesday 8th December.
INTERVIEWS WILL TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY 14TH DECEMBER 2009.
(Short listed candidates will be notified by Thursday 10th December).
Essential requirements
⢠Public Liability Insurance certificate.
⢠The appointed artists will be subject to enhanced CRB disclosure.
Contractual information
The daily fee is £200 (inclusive of vat, travel and expenses) for up to 6 days per artist including familiarisation, planning, project delivery, reflection and evaluation. A separate materials budget will also be available.
The programme will be delivered through a mixture of full and half day sessions in school. Ideally the Mosaic Artist will work during the period February/March 2010 and the Carnival Artist will work during the period April/May 2010 â exact dates to be planned. Sessions will take place in term time only and may include an evening session for staff and/or local families.
Creative Partnerships www.creative-partnerships.com
Creative Partnerships is the governmentâs 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).
The UK Centre for Carnival Arts
The UKCCA provides an exciting, pioneering and creative space for Carnival Arts to take root, to grow and to raise its status. Carnival encompasses creativity, culture and community. It has the potential to bring people together and bring about lasting change. The centre is a space where carnival artists and audiences can gather; where learning can take place; where skills and stories can be shared.
The UKCCA Learning and Participation Department offers a vibrant, innovative and varied education and skills programme which caters to the specific needs of the local community at all stages of education, engagement, age and ability. The UKCCA has a proven track record in the successful delivery of education and community projects, and has won funding to deliver the Creative Partnerships programme in 32 schools in Luton and Bedford.
St John Rigby Lower School
For further information about the school, please visit http://www.stjohnrigby.org/
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