School Programmes
Creative Freedom
Creative Freedom is our new creative and cultural offer to schools in Stoke and North Staffordshire. We are looking for 10 schools to join us to co-design bespoke creative activity to happen in the academic year 2023/24. This is an opportunity to work long term with a local artist/creative practitioner who can help deliver creative activity in your school.
The programme can be flexible and designed to suit your needs and put creativity at the heart of your classroom. Priority will be given to schools/students with significantly lower levels of cultural engagement.
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Creative Freedom Information Pack
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Empowering Educators – CPD for Teachers
Empowering Educators is our new accessible, informed and impactful CPD programme for teachers that seeks to strengthen the quality of the arts offer across the education sector. Sessions will equip participants with sector leading knowledge and skills focused on improving and enhancing the arts provision for children and young people. Our programme will facilitate strong partnerships between arts and cultural professionals and educators, connecting leading practices directly with the classroom. Through a programme that is collaborative, moving and responsive, we will continually work with educators to identify and fill gaps in provision.
The programme will consist of practical CPD sessions led by a variety of sector leading professionals, alongside networking opportunities. There will be three sub-strands of the programme including a Primary Art, Secondary Performing Arts and a Secondary Visual Art working group.
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Empowering Educators Information Pack
Creative Careers
Our Creative Careers programme that spotlights, advocates and cements the creative sector as a real potential future career pathway for young people. We will provide meaningful experiences that nurture the potential of young people through active, engaging encounters. The programme will facilitate strong partnerships between educational settings and leading cultural organisations, in line with the eight Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance, to open doors for young people, empowering them to have autonomy in their future decision making. Through a programme that is exciting and collaborative, we will utilise the peer support network of a group of young people to give them the confidence to step into the unknown and explore options together.
In the academic year 2023/24, we will be looking to work with 4 groups of young people aged 12-20 from 4 educational settings within Stoke and North Staffordshire.
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