This blog page will follow and record the progress of our participation in the 'Lead Creative Schools' scheme. Early in 2017 we applied to be part of the scheme where funding of up to £10,000 over two years is awarded to successful school applicants. We were fortunate enough to be successful and chosen to participate in the scheme. Three members of staff, Mrs James, Mrs Udy and Mrs Farrell participated in Lead Creative Schools training in September 2017 for the first project and we were allocated a Creative Agent, Carl Chapple, to help assist us in managing and devising our projects. Mrs James is the Lead Creative Schools Coordinator. Our blog is updated by the children and staff who are working on the project. Follow us on our creative journey. For the academic year 2018-2019 Mrs Parfitt will participate in some of our workshops and over the next two years we plan to disseminate the creative ethos and facilitate training for all staff across the school.

Tuesday 12 December 2017

Interviewing for a Creative Practitioner.


We asked the children who are involved in the project to think about interview questions for a Creative Practitioner. A Creative Practitioner is usually someone who works within the arts and will help us to devise and deliver a project based around our needs. 

We are looking for someone who has experience in publishing, editing and devising an online platform for our School magazine. We wanted to employ someone who has experience with the visual arts in order to help us to work on the look of the digital platform too.

Working on interview questions.



 


At our meeting we also discussed the format of the interviews and the children felt that they wanted to ask each candidate to help them with a small activity, such as making a paper snowflake or something similar, to see how they interacted and communicated with them.

Holly, Alfie, Grace and Raffy were chosen to interview. The interviews took place in the Digital Hub room, last Thursday and we interviewed three candidates.

The children were very professional and we are so proud of how they conducted themselves throughout the whole process. It was a pleasure to meet and interview everyone.

Here is a video of us making a paper snowflake aeroplane during the interview process.



We chose a gentleman called Glen who works at a company called Winding Snake. We are due to meet Glen in early January to plan our project. Glen has experience in publishing, editing and visual arts. We are very excited about this.


Watch this space!!

Mrs James

Welcome to our Lead Creative School blog.

Welcome to our brand new blog. This blog page will follow and record the progress of our participation in the 'Lead Creative School' scheme.

Earlier in the year we applied to be part of the scheme where funding of up to £10,000 over two years is awarded to successful school applicants. We were fortunate enough to be successful and chosen to participate in the scheme.

Three members of staff, Mrs James, Mrs Udy and Mrs Farrel participated in Lead Creative School training in September and we were allocated a Creative agent, Carl Chapple, to help assist us in managing and devising the project. Carl is a freelance Artist who has worked with other schools on the scheme.

On the right hand side of this blog you can see a link to the Arts Council of Wales. If you click on the image you will find further information about the scheme.



Please follow us on our creative journey,

Mrs James




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