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*Beacon Hill Film Project: Saturday on BBC 1 at 7:40pm* The Beacon Hill Film project was funded by the Lottery through the UK Film Council’s First Light initiative. It is a partnership between Arpeggio Films and Beacon Hill Business & Enterprise College, comprising of a group of young people with learning disabilities who make their own films...
!! On 13 October, 2010 the UKCCA will be holding it's second annual Practitioner Fair. If you are a creative practitioner interested in working in Luton and Bedford, come and join us at the UKCCA, between 2pm and 5pm for an informal networking opportunity and the chance to promote yourself to local Creative Partnerships Schools.
! How can creative learning transform your school?
Are you a creative practitioner, artist, musician, dancer, actor or film maker based near Hastings and St Leonards? Are you interested in learning about how to apply your creative skills to nursery settings with 0-4 year olds?
UK-based charity Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) secures European partnership to develop a practical online guide for ‘Artists in Creative Education’.
*Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships presented ‘Curtain Up!’ at the Thameside Theatre in Grays - a 3 day festival of Celebration, Participation and Education for young people and the local community - to showcase the educational work they are currently delivering in the Thurrock and Thames Gateway area.*
17 boys from *Leigh Infant school* recently visited the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
Dozens of pupils and teachers at schools across the county are celebrating after being selected as a Creative Partnerships School.
As well as practitioners from the arts sector, we are really interested in developing partnerships with individuals and organisations who use creativity within other disciplines. We are particularly keen to hear from mathematicians, scientists and practitioners from the wider creative industries sector including advertising, publishing, design, architecture...
We are delighted to announce the appointment of eight new schools to the Creative Partnerships Change School programme in Lancashire.
Creative Futures: Celebrating our Success, was a culmination of the fantastic and innovative work by Creative Partnerships schools across Northumberland, Newcastle and Gateshead.
*The UK Centre for Carnival Arts was alive with the sound of learning at a festival celebrating this year's Creative Partnerships projects.*
On Thursday 24 June 2010 the Creative Partnerships legacy schools from across North & South Tyneside took part in a tour of Creative Partnership legacy schools in South Tyneside
Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway is delighted to announce 44 schools have been accepted to join the 2010-2011 Enquiry School Programme.
This course explores ways in which creative professionals can work effectively in, or in partnership with, schools, colleges or community organisations and will appeals to artists and teachers working in the visual arts, digital media, design, music, literature/creative writing, drama and dance.
The Mighty Creatives (TMC) are always looking for new and exciting ways to engage with young people and to offer them opportunities to get involved. And that's why Communications Coordinator, Jemma Crowston, and Leadership Director, Caroline Barth, will be representing TMC at the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth in Karlstad, Sweden...
Are you a Creative Practitioner who would like to know more about the Creative Partnerships programme and how it operates in school? Have you seen some tenders for opportunities in schools and not been sure how to respond to them? Cre8us are running their 'Love Me Tender' workshop designed to help you understand how you could improve your chances...
Cre8us and BBC Blast are working together to offer a whole range of exciting free opportunities for young people to learn new creative skills.
CCE’s ‘Tell Us Bus’ The Mighty Creatives (TMC) have an exciting opportunity for up to six young people to tour the East Midlands with CCE’s ‘Tell Us Bus’.
*Think Tank* Young people across the region need you to have your say in their future too!
The deadline for Change School recruitment is looming but Enquiry School placements have now opened!
Between Monday April 19 and Wednesday April 21, The Mighty Creatives are moving offices within the LCB Depot in Leicester to accommodate our growing staff base.
Over the coming months, ISIS and Dance City Creative Partnerships are collaborating on a research opportunity and are interested in Indian or Bangladeshi artists who use new technologies in their artistic practice. This research programme forms part of a wider collaboration between the North East of England, India and Bangladesh.
The Mighty Creatives formed a year ago on 1 April and to help us celebrate our achievements to date we'll be launching a brand new website today just for you!
Are you a Creative Practitioner interested in working on a Creative Partnerships project in Northumberland, Newcastle & Gateshead? CP Northumberland, Newcastle & Gateshead maintain an online database of practitioners who have expressed an interest in working on Creative Partnerships projects. This resource is made available to all schools and...
! Chantry High School in Ipswich launches new learning space - *‘The Learning Hive’* *Date:* Friday, 26 March 2010 *Time:* 7:00pm *Venue:* Chantry High School, Mallard Way, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 9LR Chantry High School in Ipswich, a Creative Partnerships school, will be launching a brand new learning space called 'The Learning Hive...
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, in collaboration with Cardboard Citizens, invites you to take part in their own interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in the grounds of the school. The whole school will be involved in the interactive drama and sound experience. Parents, governors and local press have also been invited.
Creative and Media Diploma Students at Hillview School for Girls, a Creative Partnerships Change School in Tonbridge, Kent, were given the task of putting on a fundraiser to help raise money and awareness for the Bridge Trust, a charity which supports single homeless people in West Kent.
The following schools are now involved in the second phase of the Enquiry Schools programme in Brighton and Hove:
From 1 March 2010, the application process will be open for the Enquiry school programme for the 10/11 school year. This offers your school the chance to explore, over the course of the year, how a creative approach can address a particular aspect of your school improvement plan or other need. £3000 funding is available, matched by a £1000 contribution...
Visual artist Sheridan Quigley and writer Rosemary Harris are working with the whole staff of Guestling-Bradshaw CE Primary School in East Sussex to develop creative approaches to the primary curriculum.
Bright Space recently attended Arts Council England’s (ACE) ‘Achieving Great Art for Everyone’ consultation event in Birmingham.
St Benedict’s Infant School in Small Heath recently appeared in The Independent newspaper. They are a Creative Partnerships (CP) Change School and have devised a storytelling project through the programme, working with their specially trained dinner-ladies. The Head, Anita Thompson, recently responded to The Independent's Education Quandary: ‘We...
Children's Laureate Anthony Browne, the internationally acclaimed author and illustrator of children's books visited The Wroxham School on 3 February 2010. Anthony witnessed the school's outstanding creative learning practice and took a tour of its new double decker bus which is due to be turned into a stunning 'Storybus' over the coming months.
In response to the New National Curriculum and ECM agenda, Boldon School have taken a brand new approach to Personalised Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS), through dedicating an entire lesson each week to PLTS in Year 7 and 8.
Cre8us are now recruiting schools in Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire to apply to take part in the Creative Partnerships' programme 2010-11, receive funding and professional support to work in partnership to develop your creative curriculum.
*Ofsted recognises the benefits of Creative Partnerships in its latest report: ‘Learning: creative approaches that raise standards’*
Are you wondering how to generate creativity in the classroom? The Creative Partnerships ‘Connect Through Creativity’ market place event can help your school become wired up to new ways of learning.
In the spirit of Christmas cheer, Bright Space invited a selection of Creative Practitioners to informally discuss their work on a one to one basis with Bright Space 
Creative Agents (37 KB). The networking event operated much like a ‘speed dating’ session.
Bright Space has successfully recruited 79 schools from Birmingham (33 KB) Herefordshire (29 KB)and Worcestershire (30 KB) onto the Creative Partnerships Enquiry School programme.
CapeUK is delighted to announce that applications are now open for South Yorkshire schools interested in joining the Creative Partnerships programme for 2010-11. Maintained schools in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield local authorities are welcome to apply.
Pupils in Carlisle have just spent an exciting few weeks in the world of contemporary architecture. Working with architect Rod Hughes of Ad Hoc Associates, students at Newlaithes Junior School established and ran an architect’s office within the school. The project continued the theme of the first year Change School programme entitled ‘Interspace...
A group of pupils from The Sweyne Park School in Rayleigh, Essex pitched their new brands of smoothies and soups to a panel of experts at the world-famous Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
Young people in the Haven Gateway area got the opportunity to use their creativity when the BBC Blast Tour hit the town of Colchester this November.
Pupils in Leicester are stepping into the space age this autumn as they mix drama and science to explore their new school. Pupils from Beaumont Leys School have been working with local charity The Mighty Creatives and acclaimed theatre company Stan's Cafe through the Creative Partnerships programme to build 'Space Steps', an interactive trail around...
Twenty-six schools across England have been selected to become Creative Partnerships’ Schools of Creativity.
Pupils at a Stoke-on-Trent school have checked-in for the inaugural lesson in the world’s first ‘flying’ classroom.
Children from Swanton Abbott Community Primary School become the first people in this region to showcase an interactive computer game on the BBC Big Screen in Norwich.
Marking the 10th anniversary of the ground-breaking publication ’All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’, a new report is being launched confirming that Creative Partnerships, the government’s flagship creative learning programme which resulted from All Our Futures, is changing the lives of young people and having a real impact on their...
Find Your Talent, the new initiative designed to give children aged between 0 and 19 five hours of culture a week was launched on 23 September 2008 at the Tyne Pedestrian Tunnel.
Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, visited The Customs House Arts Centre today in his mission to discover how culture and creative learning is inspiring young people in North and South Tyneside. The Culture Secretary as met with a whole host of young people as well as locals working in the creative sector. Pupils from...
For the last three years Creative Partnerships Lancashire (Curious Minds) and Burnley Borough Council have been involved in a collaborative partnership with Channel 4 to develop the Big Art Project.
Creative Partnerships works to give school children in areas throughout England the opportunity to develop their potential, their ambition, their creativity and imagination through sustainable partnerships with creative and cultural organisations, businesses and individuals.
A new publication from CP Durham Sunderland. For over four years, Shelby Wolf from the University of Colorado has been conducting research on the partnership between Bexhill Primary School, Sunderland and County Durham’s Theatre Cap-a-Pie.
Project work is kick-started at College Road Primary in Plymouth, with a Winter Carnival launch event!
In late January, a diverse group of old and new stakeholders came together to share ideas for further collaboration and partnerships. Since we are now working across all four local authorities in Sussex and Surrey, it was a great opportunity to welcome stakeholders from across the wider sub region.
Creative week adds up with the help of the Romans, Escher and Piscasso!
!! Brighton and Hove Balfour Junior School, Brighton Blatchington Mill School, Hove Cottesmore St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Hove Longhill School, Brighton Middle Street Primary School, Brighton Patcham House School, Brighton Patcham Junior School, Brighton Somerhill Junior School, Hove St Andrew’s CofE (Aided) Primary School, Hove...
Katherine Clarke and Verity Jane Keefe from award winning art/architecture collective muf. have been working strategically with Dale for 3 years, to explore and test models for ideal creative learning environments. The creation of temporary & permanent interventions within the school has been characterized by strong research and development and an...
From September 2009 Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway will be working with a further 48 schools from across the wider Haven Gateway. This will include schools from the following districts: *Essex* – Tendring, Colchester, Braintree & Maldon *Suffolk* – Babergh, Mid Suffolk, Ipswich & Suffolk Coastal. We are currently recruiting schools...
Schools involved with Creative Partnerships, the national creative learning programme, have reduced truancy by up to a fifth and pupils have gained better exam results by up to two and a half grades at GCSE, according to new research by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), published today.
The 21st Century narrative landscape is changing with new communities of readers and writers emerging. On Tuesday 2nd December, Channel 4 hosted a Reading Agency event in collaboration with Creative Partnerships to look at the creative interaction between reading, writing and gaming and explore young people’s relationships, experiences and interactions...
An exciting new partnership has been formed that will boost the creative skills of many of the region’s young people. Cre8us, the organisation responsible for delivering England’s Flagship Creative Learning Programme in the sub region, has now joined forces with Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Partnerships Ltd (CSWP).
Over 13,000 Norfolk schoolchildren in 45 schools will take a fresh approach to lessons as they benefit from a share of £315,000 funding, by taking part in a groundbreaking national creative learning programme. Today’s funding announcement marks the start of Norfolk’s new Creative Partnerships initiative which, for the first time, is being made available...
Three Black Country Creative Partnerships schools are heading for Środa Wielkopolska in a unique Global Citizenship initiative to promote creative cross curricular teaching.
More than 500 young people finalised their Manifesto for a Creative Britain, at Tate Modern on Wednesday 26 November, and immediately presented it to Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham.
Brand new Splash magasine launched in Cinderford, Glos. Designed and produced by young people to give info on the regeneration going on in their local area.
Between May and July 2008, Future Creative, funded by the Landmark Patrons, worked with approx 100 young people from five secondary schools in Gravesham and Dartford to enable them to engage with the concepts and ideas that inspired the five Ebbsfleet Landmark proposals.
Most young people (86%) think it is important to be creative according to a new poll of nearly 2,387 eleven to sixteen year olds commissioned by Creative Partnerships.
The Mayor of London has outlined plans to enhance Londoners' experience of arts and culture in the capital, including better provision in the outer boroughs, measures to improve music and art education and a drive to support creative and grassroots talent.
Deansfield High School, a Creative Partnerships Innovation Centre and seven other Wolverhampton Secondary schools begin their annual Safe Night Out project this week.
Efford is one of the key regeneration neighbourhoods in Plymouth, and as a result the area is currently undergoing significant physical change and wider community development. At the core of the regeneration process is amalgamation of two local primary schools, Highfield and Plymview - a project that is being lead by The Heart of Efford Community...
Aged 16-25, fed up and reckon there’s nothing to do in Cornwall? Cornwall’s Chew TV hopes to sort that out…
A Find Your Talent development day was given an extra boost of inspiration when the Right Honourable David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and renowned RSC and Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart gave the keynote speeches at the conference. Over 80 Find Your Talent staff from across the country heard the two...
Budding Billy Elliots from Telford and Wrekin are urging the local council to put on more classes because one in five young people want to take up dancing. The results of a survey by the Creative Arts Team at Telford & Wrekin Council found that dancing was the skill that most young people wanted to learn - followed by music and drama. It...
Schools across Northumberland are appealing for individuals and organisations to help them find their creative spark, as part of a new initiative from Creative Partnerships.
Young People from schools across Derby attended a groundbreaking showcase event celebrating creative learning in Derby schools working with Creative Partnerships.
Sero Consulting is pleased to announce that two new staff members have joined our Creative Agent team. They are Stephen Catchick, former secondary school teacher, IT specialist, drummer and DJ, and Claire Tinker, Primary specialist, creative writer and artist/photographer. Stephen is particularly interested in capturing the impact of creative work...
Creative Partnerships - Arts Council England's successful creativity programme for schools - is set to become an independent organisation. The programme, which develops young people's creativity, has been developed and managed by Arts Council England since it began in 2002. Due to the huge success of Creative Partnerships the Arts Council has...
Creative Partnerships teamed up with the New Statesman to host a roundtable discussion on the role of creativity and culture in a 21st century education. The discussion examined the impact of creative and cultural learning and the challenges that government, and others, are facing in making it more widely available. The participants, representing...
Conservative Shadow Culture Minister, Ed Vaisy, and Liberal Democrat Culture Spokesman, Don Foster, were among the participants of a number of debates co-hosted by Creative Partnerships and The Work Foundation during party conference season.
Creative Partnerships Merseyside is pleased to announce that 31 schools have successfully applied to become Enquiry Schools.
Creative Partnerships Merseyside is pleased to announce that 26 Merseyside schools have successfully applied to become Change Schools.
Rotherham youngsters gathered at Redroad Music studio in Kiveton to write and record a song about important world issues. Youngsters from Harthill Primary gathered at Redroad Music studio in December to write and record a song about important world issues. The pupils worked in groups to write lyrics for the track which will explore hot topics like...
Accrington Academy (previously Accrington Moorhead Sports College) was one of four successful schools from the UK to participate in a landmark educational voyage to the Arctic as part of Cape Farewell's first international youth expedition programme. The key purpose of the Cape Farewell programme is to encourage young people and their schools to...
Alison White, Creative Agent for Rhyddings Business & Enterprise College tells the story of the school’s development of a creative curriculum over the last two years.
The transformed outdoor grounds at The Hill Primary, which took 18 months to develop and involved input from a whole community, are now ready to be enjoyed by the school’s youngsters. Two of the newly completed areas include exploration mazes, a ‘Willow Dome’, imaginative sculptures inspired by the children’s designs, hard surfaces for games and...
Dare to Jam is back - but this time it is bigger, better and louder than ever!
North West Film Productions, a film crew established by Media Studies students from Queens Park Community School, have secured their first commission after just two weeks. As part of a Creative Partnerships London West project, the Year 10 students received training from industry experts with BBC experience and developed the skills needed to run...
On Sunday 21st September, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham saw 100 children and a quintet from the Hallé Orchestra collaborate for a 20-minute performance to mark the launch of the Find Your Talent initiative. The children came from five schools in Bolton to perform with players from Britain’s longest-established symphony orchestra. Find Your...
A recent Creative Partnerships BDR event at Sheffield Hallam’s Hubs, designed and managed by Sero, offered young people a real glimpse into the creative industries.
A group of Yorkshire teens held their own at a recent creative technology festival, where they amazed an audience of media professionals with a film produced in just a few hours.
Schools across Northumberland are to be given specialist support in developing their creativity for the benefit of staff and students alike.
Curious Minds is on the lookout for new members to join our pool of practitioners with the opportunity to work with a broad and diverse range of partners who share our ethos and values.
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