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Create Sheffield Staff Room - Autumn 2021 |
The Sheffield Cultural Education Partnership half-termly newsletter; full of information and opportunities especially for schools and educators. |
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Create Sheffield UpdateWhy Creativity Matters NOW |
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Join in our big conversation about arts and cultural education in Sheffield, part of the Learn Sheffield Autumn Online Festival. Online 4th-22nd October 2021. Register your interest here before 10th Sept. Sheffield is fortunate to have a wealth of arts and cultural organisations that offer incredible opportunities to schools. The Why Creativity Matters NOW conversations will introduce these organisations to schools, help to inspire schools with the possibilities of working with arts, cultural and heritage practitioners, and make long lasting connections between the two sectors. Join us online in the first 3 weeks of October 2021 to talk about how arts and cultural experiences can support recovery in the post-pandemic world. Help us to build our city-wide strategy for arts and cultural education in Sheffield. Visit our website to find out more. Over the three weeks schools & educational settings will;Understand why a focus on arts and creativity is so vital now, in the post-pandemic world Learn about the range of creative opportunities on offer in Sheffield Be inspired by case studies of creative education projects and share their own experiences Connect with creative organisations in Sheffield and learn how to make these connections successful Inform Sheffield’s city-wide creative education strategy going forward
Why Creativity Matters NOW, who is it for?There will be opportunities for all phases of education from early years to post-16, both to consider their approach to creativity, and to inform our city-wide strategy for arts and cultural education in Sheffield. We want to hear & share everyone’s viewpoint. Wherever you are in your career this conversation is for you. There are opportunities to both take part and also to inspire others with your experiences. There is some funding available, get in touch for more details. |
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Creative Education Producers Jenny Coats & Amy Willoughby |
Create Sheffield’s Creative Education Producer role is led by Jenny Coats, Head of School at Beck Primary School, together with her colleague Amy Willoughby. This is a freelance, part-time role contracted until March 2022. In this newly created post, their first mission is to facilitate the Why Creativity Matters NOW conversations. You can get in touch with Jenny and Amy at education@createsheffield.co.uk. |
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Arts & Cultural Education - Assessing Access in Sheffield Data Report - Follow-up questionnaire |
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This time last year, Create Sheffield sent a questionnaire that helped draw a picture of the arts and cultural learning taking place in schools and communities across Sheffield. A summary of the report is available on our website. We know that the gap in education has widened over the last year. We feel it is critical that schools have the opportunity to feedback on the impact of the pandemic and national lockdowns on arts and culture activities in schools. This new questionnaire follows-up on last year’s findings and provides a unique opportunity to map the changes that have happened in arts and culture for children and young people in Sheffield during the Covid lockdowns. Planning an effective response to take us forward after the pandemic relies on a deep understanding of the effects of this last year across Sheffield schools. Thank you for taking the time to be part of this journey. Please take 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire using this link Create Sheffield Arts and Culture Questionnaire Thank you for your support. |
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Notice BoardNational Emergency Services Museum |
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Sheffield museum relaunches learning and discovery programme From experiencing life during the Great Fire of London to exploring the history of crime and punishment, there is plenty for school groups of all ages to enjoy during a visit to Sheffield’s National Emergency Services Museum (NESM). The museum has relaunched its learning and discovery programme to include a host of new and updated activities, as well as curriculum-linked favourites like People Who Help Us and Extreme Vehicles. Whether it’s a full day of discovery at the museum’s historic home, or an outreach activity that can deliver everything from a self-managed lesson loan box to a full day’s fun with one of the museum’s brand new Topic Takeover days, there is plenty to explore, discover, learn and enjoy at NESM. For full details go to visitnesm.org.uk/learning. |
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Amazelab |
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We are Amazelab - putting a fun and creative take on all things STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, maths) via educational resources. We provide activity packs, follow along factsheets and videos, online and in person workshops, CPD and consultancy. Like to know more? Contact us info@amazelab.co.uk We have some brilliant events coming up at the Cutlery Works, Kelham Island, Sheffield including the Amazelab STEAM Club, a brand new club aimed at 5-11 year olds taking place on the first Sunday of each month 10-11am £10 per child. Take a look using the link below. Plus the Cutlery Works are offering for kids to eat for free 3-6pm Monday - Friday. Find out more. |
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The Walk and Arts Award Discover |
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IVE invites trained Arts Award advisers from Education settings to attend this information session and explore ideas about how to complete Arts Award Discover alongside Little Amal’s ‘The Walk’. 22nd September 3.45-4.45pm. Register here. Little Amal is a little girl on a BIG journey. Little Amal is the giant puppet at the heart of The Walk, travelling 8,000km in support of refugees. In 2021, the 3.5 metre-tall living artwork of a young Syrian refugee child will walk across Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the UK to focus attention on the urgent needs of young refugees. Amal comes to Sheffield on the penultimate stop of her journey on Friday 29 October. There will be welcoming celebrations as she walks from Darnall into the city centre. |
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Sheffield Theatres |
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Storyframe is back and now booking for spring 2022! Storyframe is a term-long creative project embedded into the curriculum which practically engages children and young people with every aspect of storytelling and the theatre-making process, including playwriting, technical theatre, design, marketing and performing. Through weekly sessions led by an experienced playwright and drama specialist, with a literacy and drama focus, your class will develop an exciting narrative drawn from their cross curricula learning. Enriched with a tour and explore of the theatres and technical workshops, this narrative is then transformed into a brand new piece of theatre, written in collaboration with them and for them to perform. Feedback from schools and students: “Staff, children and parents were delighted with the outcome of this project.” “Many children have been inspired to become more involved in the theatre as a result.” “The whole group have made great progress in performance, showing confidence and resilience.” When: Spring term 2022, commencing January and culminating with a festival performance in the theatres March 14-15. Cost: £500 plus VAT (max 30 participants). Suitable for: KS1-3 To find out more and to book email Learning@sheffieldtheatres.co.uk |
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Beatrice Lee Knowles |
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Freelance Visual Artists Beatrice Lee Knowles recently wrote a Story about the brilliant sculpture-themed work she has been doing at Southey Green Primary School Reception pupils. With some beautiful pictures included, we hope you are inspired by the creativity she brought to the class. |
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ResourcesLinks to resources, organisations and articles; offering you support during the road to recovery. |
Sheffield Adventures 54 creative activities developed for Create Sheffield to share - ideas that are useful for your home or school environment and ones that will take you all around our wonderful city. Creativity Exchange - The Creativity Exchange is a space for school leaders, teachers, those working in cultural organisations, scientists, researchers and parents to share ideas about how to teach for creativity and develop young people’s creativity at and beyond school.
Cultural Education, guides for governors from ACE Governing boards play an important role in ensuring every child has access to a broad and balanced curriculum. Arts and culture form a key part of this, allowing young people to develop their creative skills alongside their personal development, giving them the tools they need to succeed in life. Arts Council England have updated their guides to support school governors champion the right for all young people to experience a creative education that includes: arts, culture and creativity, art, craft and design, dance, music.
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Share arts and creativity from your school |
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As your Cultural Education Partnership, Create Sheffield would love to be able to share and tell the story of the brilliant creative work happening in your classroom. Do you have a story you want to shout about? Have a student’s piece of work that you are proud of? Share with us so we can spread the word. You can email or tag us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. |
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Calendar - save the date! |
Creative Teach-meet November 24th 5-7pm (Hopefully an IN-PERSON EVENT). Create Sheffield works all across the city with colleagues in education settings and with our arts and cultural Partners - but we rarely bring them all together. Join us for an early evening celebration of their brilliance, inspiration and stories, together with food and guests. |
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Create Sheffield is Sheffield’s Cultural Education Partnership. We are supported by IVE, the Arts Council England Bridge Organisation for Yorkshire and the Humber. |
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