14.30 Conference Workshops

"YOUTH VOICE" AND CREATIVE TEACHING: COMFORTABLE COMPANIONS OR PROVOCATIVE PAIRING?

Dr Sara Bragg and Dr Helen Manchester

This workshop will share some of the findings from CCE's 2009 research report on 'Youth Voice in the work of Creative Partnerships'. The report covers a wide range of activities that aim to put young people 'at the heart' of what Creative Partnerships does. The workshop will explore some of the different ways that 'youth voice' has been interpreted and put into practice, and reflect on the benefits and challenges that it poses for creative teaching and learning.

YOUNG VOICES

South Wirral High School, South Wirral

This interactive session will look at student voice in the classroom, giving examples of student voice activities used routinely. Furthermore, the workshop will examine co-construction for lessons and cross-curricular activities. Finally South Wirral High School will show you how student voice has been used in the context of a visual and performing arts college.

FIND YOUR TALENT

Find Your Talent is the Government’s pilot cultural offer for all children and young people. The programme is aiming to ensure they have access to the wide range of quality and sustained cultural experiences they deserve, both in and out of school. The programme aims to help them to discover new things, to express themselves, to develop a passion and to make the most of their talent – whether it is music, art, film, theatre, dance, digital media, exploring libraries, museums or heritage. There is strong evidence that these kinds of cultural experiences contribute in powerful ways to personal development, including enhancing life skills such as creativity, problem solving, self-discipline, teamwork and good communication as well as building confidence – all strong foundations for academic attainment and employability in the future. Find Your Talent is investing ￡25 million across ten pathfinder areas and a small number of other national programmes until 2011.

PUPIL VOICE

Surlingham Community Primary, Norwich

This workshop will explore how Pupil Voice is becoming a fundamental aspect of Surlingham Community Primary. The school will demonstrate how their pupils manage, direct and make their own decisions about their learning and attitude to learning. This workshop intends to show you how pupil voice encourages moral and social development and allows children to develop their own values and ethics.

HOW CAN EARLY YEARS SETTINGS FACILITATE THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING FAMILY CAPITAL?

South Tyneside Early Excellence Children’s Centre, Tyne & Wear

This workshop will explore perceptions around engaging parents. South Tyneside Early Excellence Children’s Centre will demonstrate how creative practice coupled with a problem solving ‘can do’ approach might enable families to grow the skills and capacities necessary to engage with new perspectives, shape new futures, and hopefully broaden and increase life choices.

THE SOCIAL COHESION STONE

Peel Park Primary School, Lancashire

This workshop will be led by eight pupils from the ‘Kids Creative’ group at Peel Park Primary School. The session will take the form of an advert for a 'Social Cohesion Stone' - a magic stone that will help your school develop social cohesion. Peel Park have found that this technique works really well and will demonstrate how it can be even better when you add a bit of PHSE work, involve parents in 'Wake up Shake Up', have a nurture group, playground buddies and much more.

THE IMPACT OF CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS ON TEACHERS' PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Kay Kinder (Head of NFER's Northern Office) and Pippa Lord (Senior Research Officer), National Foundation for Educational Research

This workshop will draw on the case study findings of the evaluation of the impacts of CP (CCE) on teachers’ career progression, professional skills and personal motivations and interests. The evaluation, which is being conducted by a team at NFER’s Northern Office, started in May 2009 and will report in October 2010. Using impact stories and visual trails, the workshop will look at how CP can make a difference to your professional development and your career progression. The research so far shows that impacts are rich and varied for individuals, and the workshop will include space for you to share your own experiences of the difference that CP has made to your career.

EVALUATION OF THE 'ENQUIRY SCHOOLS' PROGRAMME: SOME INITIAL IMPLICATIONS AND QUESTIONS FOR THE PLANNING AND DELIVERY OF EFFECTIVE PROJECTS

John Harland and Dick Downing, LC Research Associates Ltd.

This workshop will draw on the early findings of the national evaluation of CCE's 'Enquiry Schools' Programme. The evaluation, which is being conducted by LC Research Associates, started in May 2009 and will report in October 2010. Some of the provisional results from the initial case studies and documentary analysis will be presented at the workshop. The possible repercussions of these findings for the practice of mounting successful 'Enquiry School' projects will be highlighted.

GETTING HEARD THROUGH ICT

Bright Space

This workshop will be led by Birmingham-based Creative Partnerships Area Delivery Organisation, Bright Space. The workshop will look at ways to communicate using ICT. ‘Getting Heard through ICT’ will feature both a best practice case study and a practical taster, giving participants a shopping list of creative ideas to take back and use in their classroom or educational setting.

PROGRESSION AND ASSESSMENT

Queensbridge School, Birmingham

In 2006 Queensbridge School changed their curriculum – this bold change became known as the Year 7 Enterprise Curriculum and the Year 8 Innov8. This workshop will tell the story of Queensbridge School’s enterprise curriculum. It will look at the place of PLTS skills in a creative curriculum and the many different ways they have found of measuring those skills. It will also look at the tensions between the demands of measuring National Curriculum levels and finding new, more appropriate and holistic ways of measuring pupil progress.

BUILDING EFFECTIVE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

Batheaston CofE Primary School, Bath

Batheaston Primary School values the parental/carer involvement in children’s learning as a major determining factor in children’s achievement and well being. Staff and families are working together to build effective family engagement in creativity. In this workshop the school will share different approaches to how the school engages families in a whole school approach to creativity. They will highlight both the challenges and their successful strategies. The workshop will include film, photography and narrative, including a live video link to the school and children.

HOW TO PLAN AND EVALUATE CP PROJECTS - THE LESSONS OF AUDIT

David Wood, Project Director, Oxford Brookes University Audit of Creative Partnerships 2007-9

A CREATIVE CURRICULUM IN A CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT; CATERING FOR OUR SOCIALLY AND CULTURALLY DIVERSE PUPIL POPULATION
Fulbridge School, Peterborough

Fulbridge School has developed a curriculum approach that aims to cater for their socially and culturally diverse pupil population. In this workshop, using first hand experiences, pictures and film, Fulbridge School will demonstrate how this approach to the curriculum can enhance the learning experiences of pupils whilst supporting a standards driven system.

CREATIVITY IN ‘CHANGE’ SCHOOLS: HOW DO SCHOOLS MAKE SENSE OF CHANGE?

Professor Pat Thomson, Professor of Education, The University of Nottingham

Pat will examine the findings from the national creative school change project, highlighting findings that will be helpful in designing school based professional development.