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Schools’ Project Booking Form

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Theme:           Britain’s Folk Culture/ British Values

Through storytelling, dance, song and photography pupils will learn about folk cultural life in Britain. 

Project members: 10 -15 primary schools . The aim is for each school to have two and a half days of cultural activities/ workshops during …………… explore Britain’s folk history then come together for a sharing event in …………………… The project is for year 3-4 pupils (7-9 year olds) in the …….North East of England.

Plan: All practitioners are very experienced and have the appropriate references in place. Each school has two and a half days’ contact time and then a half day sharing event. Working collaboratively enables practitioners to provide competitive rates for their work and all contracting and co-ordination and liaison with the schools will be carried out by a project officer.

Project management

1. One reference address and telephone number from a school or educational organisation has been provided and followed up.

2. Confirmation of CRB check, ID number, date, named organisation.

3. Brief description of a full day workshop and a half day workshop including

-Number of young people they can work with/ classes / flexibility

-set up required e.g. space, power, water, equipment

-example of how practitioners will explore the theme in their workshop and what they can bring to this project.

4. Project co-ordination, contracts and management of the event from skilled officers who have extensive knowledge and experience of working in the area.

Thank you for your time, we look forward to this exciting festival.

Workshop details

 

	Brief description: Programme of 2 days and a half day with a sharing event.
Storytelling   1 day or   ½ day option	The storyteller will be telling oral stories from across the British Isles –  folktales from Katharine Briggs’ definitive 4 volume Dictionary of British Folk Tales and Joseph Jacobs’ collections of English and Celtic fairy tales; from the Mabinogion in Wales and Scottish tinker tales. Ira often draws from e-books on Gutenberg.org from the 19th century, when ‘folktales of the centuries’ were first widely put into print, which can then be followed up after his visit, as a free download. Ira demonstrates how one remembers the core plot of a tale, and then improvises it afresh each telling (Ira often asks the class to tailor the tale to their own school day, name the characters and change their circumstances and appearance.
Folk Song   1 day or     ½ a day option	The singing leader will take the pupils on a journey through Britain exploring the traditional folk songs of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England. These fun and lively workshops will engage everyone with vocal warm ups, games and stories to link into the songs. The pupils will have the opportunity to compose their own lyrics, incorporate percussion instruments and movement. From traditional working songs to sea shanties, these simple songs are quick to learn and give a real insight into the work, landscape, celebrations and hardships faced by people over the years.
Folk Dance         1 day or ½ day	Sessions include a themed warm up, learning of taught choreography, the opportunity for self expression and children’s own choreography.  Embedded focus on counting (numeracy) and on contextual information (literacy) in Q & A throughout.   Potential for a guided research pack for teachers to do in class just before the workshops.  Points such as time periods, location, costumes, music and political reasons could be listed and sources of information provided by the presenter (who currently guides dance students in their early stages of academic research so can do this for primary level).
Photography   1 day or     ½ day possible	Operating within the North East, the practitioner is very  experienced in delivering photography workshops ranging from formal lecturing at degree level right through to facilitating workshops in Primary schools, with Arts Award, evening classes and community group sessions. He recently completed a schools’ partnership project with MiMA and Middlesbrough schools.   Using archive photographs of British School Life in years gone by as an initial stimulus, learners will be introduced to photography as a medium and embark upon exploring the theme and concept of documentary photography. This will lead to learners developing new skills in photographic  composition, theory and techniques and putting them into practical use by creating new images of their contemporary school life and environment, in turn creating a new ‘documentary archive’ for the future.
Sharing event 23rd June	20 minute activity ranging from song, visual art, storytelling, dance and craft with 5 schools, then a get together at the end.  2 hour session.

 

                                       

BOOKING FORM

School’s Name……………………………………………………………….

Contact details ( name, tel, email)

…………………………………………………………………………………..

Booking: A special package for 2 and a half days + Festival                                     

 

Practitioner	Day 1	Day 2	Half day	Notes
Folk storytelling (can work with 1 class or whole school)
Song (can work with 1 class or whole school)
Dance (can work with 1 class or whole school)
Photography (best to work with 1 class but can work with  two for a full day)
Best dates for your school?
No. of pupils/ classes
Best session for you on the Festival day …. at  ………….. AM session 9.30-11.50 PM session 1-3.15.	N/A	N/A
School day Breaks, Lunches and best place to park.