‘Can creative explorations into Welsh Culture develop confidence in oracy through Welsh for a mixed ability year 8 class?’
Ysgol Calon Cymru is a dual stream High School with campuses in both Llandrindod Wells and in Builth Wells. This LCS project will be working with the Welsh stream Year 8 class who are based in Builth Wells.
We would like 1 or 2 Creative Practitioners to work with us on a fun and engaging exploration into Welsh Culture.
Our primary focus is in building confidence and vocabulary of Welsh Oracy through dynamic & authentic learning experiences. Whilst simultaneously enabling teachers to build & develop new and authentic teaching strategies to enable them to teach & deliver the new Welsh curriculum more creatively.
Creative Practitioners
We would like at least one of our Creative Practitioners to be able to deliver their engagement with the class through Wesh language. However, this will be a bilingual project and all planning meetings and documentation will be conducted both written & verbally in English/bilingually. There may also be some sharing with the English Stream pupils at the end of the project but this is to be explored when we are clearer on what the project will involve.
We would also happily consider a collaboration of 2 Creative Practitioners with one Welsh speaking and one not. So please feel welcome to apply if you are not a Wesh Speaking practitioner but you are interested in working collaboratively and willing to use some Welsh Language and become a learner alongside the pupils.
We are open to applications from a wide range of potential Creative Practitioners including:
Artists of all many disciplines, Scientists, Historians, Poets, Creative Writers, Storytellers, Film Makers, Digital practitioners, Drama/Theatre makers, Design Technology practitioners, Illustrators
Year 8 say they would like to develop skills in Welsh Language to:
Understand more Welsh, Speak the language of my country, Understand things other people can’t, to speak more than one language, to understand the world
When asked what interest them about Welsh culture they said:
Llewelyn, Mabinogi Stories, The Art that people create, Welsh Artists, Welsh Cakes, Welsh singing, landscape, farming, Sport especially Rugby
When asked how they liked being creative:
Art, Design, Drawing, Photography, Sports, Being with people
We would like to request the Practitioners are:
- Keen to collaborate with the learners and teachers and if relevant, another Creative Practitioner, to create, deliver and evaluate the project.
- Ability to work on developing ideas as a team.
- Happy to be part of a bilingual project with a Welsh Stream group of learners where Welsh language will be a primary focus.
- Creative and enthused to develop authentic approaches through an imaginative and practical approach.
- Have some experience of working with Year 8 (age 12/13yrs) learners.
- Enthusiastic about listening to pupil voice through the different phases of the project
- Able to work with pupils from different backgrounds with a range of different abilities and needs and appreciate their obstacles and frustrations.
- Train class teachers in creative skills that they can draw upon in their teaching.
- Can inspire pupils to enhance their learning experiences and feel proud of their achievements.
- Able to and happy to deliver a blended teaching approach if necessary.
We are open to aplications from potential Creative Practitioners who have not worked on the Lead Creative Schools Programme before and training is provided by Arts Council Wales for those who have not already received the Lead Creative School training for Creative Practitioners.
Training takes place on January 10th 2024
You must have either already taken part in the training previoulsy or be available for this date to be considered.
If you want to know more about Lead Ceative Schools click here:
https://arts.wales/funding/get-started/creative-learning/lead-creative-schools-scheme
Fee
£300 per day
There are approximately 12 Creative Practitioner days in total.
Should a collaboration between 2 CP’s take place we would look at the split of days together with the successful CP’s as part of the project planning as we would anticipate some solo work and some collaborative work.
Fees are in place to cover planning, implementation and evaluation.
There is a small additional budget for materials.
Dates / Timeline
Closing Date: 9am Monday 27th November 2023
Interviews: Will take place in person at the school on
Thursday 30th November 2023
Project Planning: 1 day of planning meeting split between:
1 x ½ day Week commencing 4th December 2023 in the afternoon
&
1 x ½ day Thursday 11th January 2024
Implementing Project: January - March 2023 – dates to be finalised in the first planning meeting
Evaluating Project: March - May 2024 – dates to be finalised in the first planning meeting
How to Apply:
- Covering letter or short film telling us
- why you would like to be our Creative Practitioner
- outlining your approach
- how you meet the knowledge, skills and attributes described above.
- Please tell us if you have responded to other Creative Learning through the Arts and Lead Creative School briefs before though it is not essential that you have and we are open to applicants who have not take part in Lead Creative Schools before
Please ensure you respond to the specifics of this brief. Your response should be no more than 2 sides of A4 or a 5 minute film.
- CV and examples of your previous work such as illustrations, films, sound clips and/or web links (no more than 8MB please if emailing documents).
- Details of a referee
- The successful candidates will be required to undergo a DBS check which would be undertaken by the school if an adequate DBS is not already in place. Please let us know if you hold one or if you would require one.
Please note: interviews will incorporate a 10 -15 minute workshop with the Year 8 class.
Please email both:
Ross Bennett (School Co-ordinator)
and
Ellie Turner (Creative Agent)