The Arts Council would like to draw schools and partners' attention to the following three publications available for the website:
Our action plan for children and young people and the arts - participation through partnership
Arts matters - how the arts can help meet the needs of children and young people
Arts matters summary
These documents may be downloaded from www.artscouncil.org.uk/publications
Arts Council England Annual Review
Arts Council England has released its Annual Review for 2006 which looks back and reports on activities and achievements from Spring 2005 to 2006.
To download a copy of the Annual Review visit www.artscouncil.org.uk
You can no log on, find out what the ideal virtual school looks and sounds like on the Virtual Vision website and post a comment (scrolling to the Explore menu (right hand side) and clicking onto 'Thoughts and Ideas'):
Click onto:
www.virtual-vision.org
Virtual Vision - Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd of June 2006
We invite you to review our flagship project, where Gateshead teachers worked one-to-one with our Cultural Partners to create a virtual creative school, creative curriculum and creative management model.
Guidance for artists and arts organisations on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. This is the updated version of the Arts Council's popular guidance document.
PDF and web link pending; here's the MS Word document meanwhile...
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Quick tips on how to send information to reach Gateshead schools and Early Years settings via our Cultural & Creativity Ambassadors network. The guide can be used by cultural partner organisations and learning settings alike and our contact details are included for sending information or further queries; so drop us a line!
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A useful resource for finding Cultural Partners with educational experience who took part in the Showcase in June 2004. Please note that the next Showcase will be in Autumn 2006: notices will be posted on this site, in Ambassadors e-bulletins, in the post and via the LEA.
Open link below (MS Word, 376KB)...
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Gateshead Schools Music Service is the contact for the following:
"Music in the Foundation Stage: a scheme of work" by Anne Porter. This comprehensive file is designed to support non-specialist and specialist musicians alike. In addition to much valuable material, there's a supporting CD recorded by Anne Porter, and a CD-Rom with a great deal of downloadable material.
£35.00 each. Contact Barbara Murray, Gateshead Music Service.
Tel: 0191 433 8685. Email: barbaramurray@gateshead.gov.uk
Here's a summary of the recently published Arts Council's
Youth Matters Green Paper along with some details of work that the Regional Youth Work Unit will be doing around this document.
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/youth/
www.artscouncil.org.uk
My thanks and a farewell to Ian Blackwell (North East Museums, Libraries and Archives Council)for this and all the other contributions to the Ambassadors's network in Gateshead.
The DfES has launched the Youth Green Paper "Youth Matters". This contains a new vision for how young people's services need to
be delivered, including reform of Connexions services, new statutory guidance for local authorities in provision of all services for young
people and funding for increased engagement of young people in decision-making processes. There are significant opportunities and implications for our sector in each of the four main themes that are outlined, particularly building on Framework for the Future's "Fulfilling their Potential" paper, archive education and Renaissance programmes.
'Youth Matters' can be downloaded from
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/youth/docs/youthmatters.pdf
A useful summary and commentary is also available via the NYA's website at http://www.nya.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=91947
In Gateshead, we have constructed a baseline assessment tool for schools and other learning settings and have already have had a good response to its first use. Our ambition is to refine and reuse the tool over 3 and 5 years as part of a comparative study in Gateshead Schools and then offer it to other schools in the sub-region as it develops.
It could be used in OfSTED self-assessments and any other measurement of creativity required. If Gateshead schools would like more information, please contact:
Ednie Wilson, Creativity Development Manager: edniewilson@gateshead.gov.uk
0191 477 5380.
Scroll through our purple schools list to read our schools' take on creativity.
New quotations can be sent to:
barbaraannbrown@gateshead.gov.uk
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Parents, Children and the School Experience: Asian families' perspectives, a report by the The Economic & Social Research Council:
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=22212&heading=e-mail+alert
For the summary, read on...
Learning, Sociology, Social Inclusion and the value of museums: nine free reports to download.
Our thanks to Jim Roberts of Leicester University Department of Museum Studies and Arts Council England North East.
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/bookshop/rcmg_publications.htm
A selection of news from DfES via the Arts Council Education Service on a variety of topics from awards, funding and school meals projects.
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A handbook from NESTA Futurelab by Keri Facer and Ben Williamson.
The role that creativity plays in children’s learning has recently been acknowledged as important in a number of policy documents and initiatives. Creativity is no longer regarded as a discrete skill required for art, drama or music, but rather it is seen as central to children’s abilities to work imaginatively and with a purpose, to judge the value of their own contributions and those of others, and to fashion critical responses to problems across all subjects in the curriculum.
Increasingly, collaboration is seen as important in creative learning and to children’s abilities to evaluate and justify their opinions; to gather knowledge from others; to share their expertise with others; and to transform their existing understandings as learners in a constant process of personal and social development.
'Drama in schools' describes the place of drama in a broad and balanced curriculum, and reflects good practice in drama provision. Read on for more details and ordering...
A report by the University of Northumbria commissioned by Arts Council England entitled 'Feeding the Mind' is a recent, valuable resource for Early Years projects.
For a copy, contact Cheryl Gallagher, Administrator, Arts and Development
Arts Council England, North East
Direct line: +44 (0)191 255 8541
Fax: +44 (0)191 230 1020