dcep school newsletter - june 2021
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DCEP SCHOOL NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2021
Hello, and welcome to our June newsletter. Please find some exciting updates from our Cultural Partners to pass on to your pupils.
QUAD QUAD has re-opened! Come and visit our FORMAT 21 exhibitions or take a look at the virtual FORMAT21 online. Please contact Interim Education Curator Daisy Lloyd to discuss school visits under current social distancing restrictions: [email protected] FORMAT Exhibitions at QUAD from 17 May - 05 Sep 2021 New Gallery Opening Times: Wednesday - Sunday 12.00pm – 4.00pm. Monday & Tuesday Closed.
FORMAT Presents: Here, There and Everywhere QUAD, Extra Gallery Space Artists: Anthony Bila (South Africa), Uzoma Chidumaga Orji (Nigeria), Sipho Gongxeka (South Africa) The artists in this exhibition were selected via a pan-African open-call for their visionary work dealing with complex, socio-political issues, representations of the digital, Queer daily life in townships and societal responses to Lockdown.
FORMAT Presents: Black Country Dada 1969 – 1990 by Brian Griffin QUAD, Main Gallery Brian Griffin is one of Britain’s most influential portrait photographers. He achieved early recognition in the 1970s and 1980s, inventing a new photographic style known as Capitalist Realism. Capturing the different workers of society, his photographs transform workplaces into stages and his subjects into actors. This exhibition presents an autobiographical survey of the work of Brian Griffin that shares what it was like to survive as a photographer at the start of his career. In the exhibition we see the artist tell the story through his personal experience of those tough times.
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FORMAT Presents: Famous Internet Sites QUAD, Main Gallery The exhibition Famous Internet Sites focuses on places suddenly made famous by the internet, featuring what could also be described as ‘flash mob exhibitions.’ This term, coined overseas (that is, outside of China) is a type of immersive exhibition held for recreational aims.
FORMAT21 Online Use our large touchscreen display to visit FORMAT21 Online. Explore exhibitions from over 160 international artists and a selection of the 40,000 images submitted from over 90 countries from the #massisolationFORMAT archive created during the Covid-19 pandemic. Or view online: https://format.newart.city/ Kids In Museums – Digital Takeover Day Friday 25th June 2021 Begun in 2014 as Teen Twitter Takeover, our Digital Takeover Day empowers young people and gives them a platform to engage with museums, galleries, historic houses, archives, heritage sites, cultural and arts organisations across the UK. As part of Kids in Museums Digital Takeover Day, we invite young people to take over QUAD’s Twitter feed for the day! Use the template to tell us about something creative you have made or experienced and don’t forget to send us an image too! Send your tweets to [email protected] by Wednesday 23rd June. Find out more at https://kidsinmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/teen-digital-takeover/
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EMCCAN We are delighted to announce our Regional Costume Competition at Derby Quad on 26th June, which will be live-streamed. Please follow the link to find out more! https://www.derbyquad.co.uk/RegionalCostumeCompetition
Bringing learning to life through the creativity and joy of carnival EMCCAN is a key partner in a national initiative inviting schools and groups of young people to engage in carnival activities online and around the country from 12th to 18th July 2021. Carnivals up and down the country are working together to bring a celebration full of camaraderie, vibrancy, and exuberance, to every child and young person this summer. The new National Children’s Carnival Week, 12 – 18 July 2021, is the brainchild of the UK Centre for Carnival Arts based in Luton, and aims to get schoolteachers, children and their families everywhere involved in a remarkable upbeat finale to what has been such a challenging academic year.
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The programme will provide online teaching resources and ‘make carnival at home’ videos that can be shared and delivered in all kinds of settings, in and out of school, for everyone to get involved. During National Children’s Carnival Week in July, there will be mini carnivals ‘popping up’ all over the place, in the safety of school playgrounds, on sports fields and in secure outdoor community spaces. Donna Fox, Chief Executive of Emccan said: “We are proud to be part of the steering group for this national initiative, working collectively to share the work of skilled artists. Emccan will be putting a call out in coming weeks for carnival artists to deliver online workshops as part of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation project that has begun in Derby schools and community groups.”
National Children’s Carnival Week (#kids4carnival) will promote opportunities to
participate in all carnival artforms, including steel band, samba drum, and calypso
(lyric) composition. There is even a national children’s carnival song, ‘This is our
Carnival’ which is being shared and taught across participating schools and aspires to
be the world’s greatest live sing-out, with half a million young voices taking part.
For more information about National Children’s Carnival Week, about the learning and
education programme and/or how to take part contact:
Donna Fox, East Midlands Caribbean Carnival Arts Network (EMCCAN),
07900 083839 e. [email protected] www.emccan.org
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Derby & Derbyshire Music Partnership
Singing programmes are now being booked for the autumn term. Sing2gether, Sing4Life, Derbyshire Song Book, Singing Stars, KS1 Musical gems and Musical Explorers all found here https://derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/schools Making Assessment in Music Manageable; Exploring strategies for assessing pupil achievement and progress – a free twilight webinar for KS1 and KS2 settings The Derby & Derbyshire Music Partnership recognises how busy classroom teachers and teaching assistants are and that assessing musical skills, knowledge and understandable can seem daunting. The Ofsted guidance document ‘Music in schools: promoting good practice’ says ‘Assessment in music is often over-complicated’. Join us for this free webinar where we will explore several strategies for assessing pupil achievement and progress. This event is open to all Derby City and Derbyshire KS1 and KS2 settings. Please complete our online registration for all who wish to attend this webinar. Tuesday 15 June 2021 webinar 3.45-4.45pm, https://derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/assessment Derby & Derbyshire Music Partnership- Music Teaching CPD course: “Let’s Start at the Very Beginning”. Six monthly sessions designed for classroom teachers in KS1 and KS2 settings to develop their musicianship skills The Model Music Curriculum, published by the Department for Education in March 2021, uses many of the teaching strategies invented by the Hungarian music educator Zoltan Kodaly. He believed that pupils should learn music through singing and using the solfa (do re mi) or solfège hand signs and learning to read rhythm notation. Sessions will take place online, once a month, and last for 60-90 minutes. You will learn several songs and use these as a springboard into notation and composing. All resources and materials will be made available to participants enrolled onto the course. Schools are invited to enroll teachers and teaching assistants onto this course, with no limit on places per school. Each place costs £90 and includes access to all course materials https://derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/beginning DDMP has joined the new Teaching School Hub for Derby, South Derbyshire, and Erewash. We look forward to having a presence on their website and being able to form a pathway of signposting for schools to appropriate CPD for Early Career Teachers, general and bespoke CPD packages and offers for schools. As the Roadmap continues to travel in the right direction, we are thrilled to announce our Celebration Days for our County level ensembles: City & County Youth Orchestra, City & County Youth wind Band, Derby & Derbyshire Schools’ Orchestra and our new City & County Youth Choir will all meet to rehearse and sing over two days in early July. derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/wopps
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Sinfonia Viva
The Dragon in My Skin - FREE cross curricular resources for KS1 from Sinfonia Viva Sinfonia Viva has brought together a creative team to work with health experts from Birmingham City University and the University of Nottingham to produce The Dragon in My Skin - a new book, animated film, and songs to share 5 key messages about care of childhood eczema. The film, which explores what it is like to have a dragon living in your skin, is accompanied by a KS1 teacher resource pack which has been written in partnership with the PGCE Primary and Early Years team from Birmingham City University and incorporates lessons across the curriculum. The film and resources, which are FREE for everyone to access, can all be found on Sinfonia Viva’s website: https://www.sinfoniaviva.co.uk/news/dragon-in-my-skin-eczema-project
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Derby Museum
BOOK NOW FOR 10% DISCOUNT ON DERBY MUSEUMS' SCHOOL SESSIONS
Derby Museums are offering 10% off all facilitated school sessions across our 3 museum sites, including the NEW Museum of Making, for all bookings made before the end of July 2021*. Please quote DCEP10% when booking. The Museum of Making's new galleries, workshops, studios, and Institute of STEAM learning programmes - in partnership with Rolls-Royce - inspire learners to be curious, empathise and innovate – to think, feel and do. Facilitated school sessions for KS1-3 and SEND are curriculum-linked, interdisciplinary and hands-on. Delve into the story and collections of the Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill – widely regarded as the site of the world’s first modern factory. Explore Derby, its amazing people and global connections. Discover wonderful innovations of makers past and present and imagine how young people will influence the world as makers of the future. A range of engaging and award-winning sessions, which both challenge and excite pupils, are also available at Derby Museum and Art Gallery - home to fascinating collections including the largest collection of work by 18th Century artist Joseph Wright of Derby, and Pickford's House - a unique museum in the Georgian home of Enlightenment architect Joseph Pickford. Please see Derby Museums website for our full list of facilitated school sessions and booking info. Free self-guided visits are also available (pre-booking is essential).
*10% discount is redeemable against facilitated school sessions booked no later than Friday 30th July 2021, for visits during the summer 2021 term OR the new academic year 2021-22. Please note that all bookings for Derby Museum & Art Gallery and Pickford's House are subject to lifting of Covid-19 restrictions.
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Artcore
Artcore Events and Projects – June 2021 Reimagine in Normanton and Arboretum Artcore is one of five partners on the city-wide Reimagine project which aims to support young people to develop skills and confidence to explore creative futures. The five partners are Artcore, Derby Theatre, Deda, Sinfonia Viva and Baby People. As part of the project, we are coordinating the Normanton/Arboretum ward working with schools and young people in the area. In May we completed some very exciting workshops with Year Four students at St. James' Primary School and Year Five at Zaytouna Primary School. The students worked with artists Dr. Chris Wright and Connie Burley looking at the themes of Home, Identity and Kindness. It was absolutely amazing being able interact and develop ideas with students in person for the first time in 2021! Our final Maze Experience workshops were a huge hit as we reimagined spaces within the schools with the students such as the library and the dinner hall. In the maze, we rebuilt our Imagination, Home and Pathways pods as part of the maze, and they were as big hit as when we created them at Pear Tree Junior School earlier in the year. In July, Artcore will be hosting a large Maze Experience at our building on Charnwood Street! We will be working more with the schools to co-create the maze and provide an interactive experience through exhibiting the work of young people in Normanton and Arboretum and encouraging people to participate while they are there too!
Express Yourself Join professional artists to explore visual arts, learn new skills and create imaginative pieces of art to be included in a celebratory exhibition. This programme is curated for young people aged 8-15 which aims to cultivate confidence, self-esteem & initiative through collaboration and exploration of various art mediums. Workshops are all free of charge and take place on Tuesdays afterschool from 4.45pm-6.45pm. Starting in July, we will be working with a new artist focusing on a digital medium which will give young people the chance to explore new art experiences. You can keep up to date with our weekly session at https://www.artcoreuk.com/express-yourself/ and sign up to join our new block at http://bit.ly/JuneProgramme
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Future Endeavours Artcore invites young aspiring people aged 10-18 to join our programme which aims to improve creativity and skill set by incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) themes through different art mediums and workshops. All sessions are delivered by professional artists on site at Artcore. Workshops are all free of charge and take place on Saturday afternoons 12.30pm-2pm (ages 10-13) and 2.30pm-4pm (ages 14-18). Starting in July, we will be working with a new artist and exploring STEM through a new medium which will give young people the opportunity to experiment with different art forms. You can keep up to date with our weekly session at https://www.artcoreuk.com/express-yourself/ and sign up to join our new block at http://bit.ly/JuneProgramme
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Déda
Take a look at Déda’s website to find out more about what they have been doing
regarding the Reimagine project.
https://www.deda.uk.com/news/2021/spotlight-on-derwent-hub-working-with-d%C3%A9da-1-4 https://www.deda.uk.com/news/2021/spotlight-on-derwent-and-chaddesden-hubs-xzibit-residency-with-d%C3%A9da-2-4 https://www.deda.uk.com/news/2021/spotlight-on-3-4 https://www.deda.uk.com/news/2021/spotlight-on-reimagine-final-thoughts-on-the-project-so-far-4-4
Derby Theatre
Summer 2021 will see a brand-new stage adaptation of Alex Wheatle’s Home Girl on the main stage at Derby Theatre through a unique and exciting co-creation and collaboration between Alex Wheatle MBE, the Theatre, Derby’s Cultural Education Partnership, professional writers, care-experienced young people, and other young theatre makers.
Alex Wheatle MBE is an award-winning author who won the Guardian Children’s Book Award in 2016 (for Crongton Knights) and Home Girl, one of the Crongton series novels, is fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic and full of courage. It tells the story of Naomi, a teenage girl growing up fast in the care system.
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Contact Us
DCEP Admin Support
Derby Theatre
Cultural Education Producer
Alix Manning -Jones
DCEP Chair
Pauline Anderson OBE
Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter!
Derby Theatre is the lead partner for Derby's Cultural Education Partnership, also known as DCEP.
We work closely together with our cultural partners, including QUAD, Déda, Derby & Derbyshire Music Partnership, Hubbub, Derby Museums, Sinfonia ViVA, Baby People, Artcore, EMBAA and EMCCAN to provide high-quality cultural experiences across the curriculum and beyond.
The Cultural Campus is the collective name for Derby’s major cultural organisations who work together, along with schools and other important sectors, to provide an exciting cultural education offer for young people.
We aim to provide every child and young person with opportunities to thrive in our city and experience of a variety of culture to develop their skills, life chances and fulfil their highest ambitions.