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Innovative e learning project gets
short-listed for top industry Award.
"Creative Curriculum", an innovative e learning project
produced by CC4 with Central Foundation Girls School for the
Arts in Tower Hamlets, has been short-listed for the
prestigious Celtic Film and TV Interactive Award. The
project involves the use of circus, dance and music skills
to help "bring alive" the core National Curriculum subjects
of Mathematics, Literacy and Science at Key Stage 2 (Ages 7
- 11).
Central Foundation Girls' School, in the London Borough of
Tower Hamlets, has been a specialist status performing arts
college for 6 years and has just been awarded a special
status in Citzenship.
Their specialist status has allowed them to work closely
with their partner secondary schools during this time and
the 'Creative Curriculum' is the result of over 30 artist in
residence programmes. Pupils following the study course
perform circus tricks, musical exercises and dance routines
to help them better understand the key principles of the
core KS2 subjects.
The resource is for teachers to use in the classroom. There
are many ways to use the resource but the main way the
producers hope it will be
used is to inspire children and support them to learn in a
variety of new ways. It uses video to illustrate various
classroom based activities in an intuitive, easy to follow
way, and then it offers a series of "ready made" lessons,
with all the constituent resources required to deliver them-
teacher's notes, sound files, word banks, picture libraries
and even downloadable materials to make the learning become
extremely practical.
"We have designed this resource on the ground; in the
classroom, a true partnership between artist and teacher. We
now hope that teachers
will design the next stage of its life and use it to educate
children to work and learn creatively. After all they are
the creative thinkers and workers for the future." said Huw
Owen, Managing Director of CC4. He went on to add "We are
delighted that the Celtic Film and TV Festival judge's
juries have acknowledged this piece of work. It is as
definitive a
piece of innovative e learning material as is to be found in
the UK at this
time."
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