Cultural Education Workshop

Join us for a morning exploring the transformative impact of creativity and cultural education across the curriculum.

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WEMA

An Exciting Opportunity to Explore Cultural Education

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Join us for a morning exploring the transformative impact of creativity and cultural education across the curriculum – and take part in a workshop from the Aardman Academy, to create your own miniature stop motion movie! The workshop involves modelling characters, writing a simple storyline and learning how to create a stop motion short film from your work.

Venue: University of the West of England (Frenchay Campus) 
Date: Thursday 27 February 2025. 9am for a 9.15am start, to 12.15am 
Cost: This is a FREE event (maximum of two people per organisation)

Please note: This workshop is on the same day as the West of England Music and Arts Schools' Music Conference, which starts at 1pm at the same venue. If you would like to sign up for the conference as well, please visit our Schools' Music Conference page where you can find full details and booking information. And remember, if you book for both the Cultural Education Workshop and the Conference, we will provide a free lunch.

Cultural Education Session

We will explore how schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts can get involved in our exciting Cultural Education Hub work across the West of England region. The Hub supports schools, MATs, practitioners and cultural organisations, to work together on innovative opportunities to deepen young people’s engagement with the curriculum, and provide inspiring creative and cultural opportunities for them within and beyond schools.    

  • Explore practical ways in which your school can develop and improve your creative curriculum and practices
  • Consider ways in which partnerships created through this programme can support curriculum and staff development, student motivation and outcomes, mental health and wellbeing
  • Design opportunities to deepen your students’ engagement with creative and cultural learning and explore ways to develop these through collaborating with a wide range of creative practitioners. 
  • Build connections that support students to gain insights into pathways for studying and working in the creative and cultural industries through unique opportunities for your students and staff to collaborate with a range of local, regional and national delivery partners. 
  • Learn more about creative and cultural experiences across the region that are available to young people.

This fully funded workshop is facilitated by the West of England Cultural Education Hub through funding from the West of England Combined Authority and Arts Council England, and is a strand of the Culture West programme. 

The Cultural Education Hub is led by West of England Music and Arts, and supported by a steering group of schools, facilitators and cultural organisations. This workshop is open to all mainstream and special primary and secondary schools and FE providers across the West of England region. Funded places are limited to two people per organisation.


Cultural Education Workshop Updated Form

Information to support our funding

 

We need to report on the impact of the Cultural Hub’s activity to our funders. Please help us by providing the following information so that we can continue to offer these events to you:


How many adults will you share the contents of this session with at your work setting? 

This might be verbal update to your headteacher/SLT, cascading the learning to other teachers in your school/MAT, or delivering an activity alongside a teaching assistant.

How many children will you share the contents of this session with at your work setting? 

Please feel free to estimate. For example, if the answer is one class, 30 is fine. If whole school in a 1-form entry Junior, it’s fine to just put 120.

How many children will the activities at this session impact? 

For example if you’ve learnt a new skill,  a class you teach, all students you teach over a year (such as if you’re a secondary school teacher on a rotating carousel timetable), plus any students other teachers you cascade to work with. If this session is about strategy, how many student will be affected by a new strategy (this number could be anything up to several hundred students or more).

If known, how many of the children (approximately) are the following: