Working with schools

“WOW! TIN Arts have gone down amazingly in school. What a fantastic four days, the pupils loved it. Thanks to you and your team for the hard work. They were great!”

Glendene School, Easington 2012

Introduction When TIN Arts was first formed in 1999, we were keen to form a company that was recognised as innovative, dynamic and excellent. Now in 2013 TIN Arts are recognised as one of the foremost inclusive dance organisations in the North East creating, managing and delivering exciting opportunities for children, young people and adults of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Building upon our own professional dance training and experience, TIN Arts strive hard to help participants create fantastic new dance work in which the participants are fully engaged directly in the creative process, allowing them to become co-creators, directors, and observers of the work. Our activities also embrace other art forms such as music and film embracing creativity in all its guises.

All of our activities are planned and designed with precision to ensure our activity is relevant and meaningful for every participant. Our recent inclusion in Arts Council England’s National Portfolio of Organisations (only 630 organisations nationally) is further recognition that TIN Arts are delivering excellent work and supporting a national aspiration of Achieving great art for everyone. We are open to enquiries from all schools and are would love to help you develop dance opportunities in your school. Contact us now and find out how we can get your school moving!

Tess Chaytor Martin Wilson Founders and Co-Directors

2013 - 2014

programmes

Dance for learning

Over the past 5 years, TIN Arts have been involved in using creative movement work to deliver cross curricular areas in schools including English, Maths and History. One really successful programme was called Evolve and involved TIN Arts devising schemes of work for the delivery of Science at Key Stage 1, 2 & 3 in the Tees Valley. Covering topics such as Forces; Earth, moon and sun as well as offering Year 6 SAT’s revision, TIN Arts continue to deliver Science in education currently and are invited to guest lecture at the National Science Learning Centre in York. We can help you to discover new creative ways to deliver all parts of the curriculum, and support you by providing schemes of work and practical resources.

“...by the time they rehearsed the dance, they had the Science!” Northgate Primary School, Tees Valley 2010

Just Dance

Often when a school is working towards a festival or an up and coming event, they look to dance to provide some energy and life to proceedings. After all, if it’s good enough for the Olympics opening and closing ceremony, then it’s good enough for us! TIN can work with you and your group/class to create a new piece of dance that is unique to your school and tailored to your pupils.

“WOW! TIN Arts have gone down amazingly in school. What a fantastic four days, the pupils loved it. Thanks to you and your team for the had work. They were great!”

Glendene School, Easington 2012

Teacher Training

We understand how leading dance sessions in school can be difficult so we are keen to help where and when we can. TIN Arts can lead you through and supply you with fun games to play, including warm up exercises and creative tasks. Sessions can take place after school, as part of training days ot even jointly along with other schools.

“Simple to understand and easy to deliver... Thanks to TIN Arts for making dance something I want to teach and not avoid!”

St John’s School, Blackburn 2009

BOUNCE! TIN Arts also run an out-of-school inclusive Youth Dance Programme at the TIN Dance Space in Framwellgate Moor, Durham. We deliver regular weekly classes in contemporary dance for children and young people aged 2-24 years old. All classes are inclusive and designed to engage young people artistically and socially. We create an environment where young people feel safe to share and explore ideas around dance. The sessions give the children and young people the opportunity to make new friends and enjoy new experiences. Specialist staff will help children progress through the programme at the pace that is right for each individual. Flyers advertising our out-of-school offer are available to be distributed in school. Just call and let us know how many you want.

Tel: 0191 384 0728

TIN Arts’

staff:

Dance Practitioners

All of our practitioners are directly employed by TIN Arts and are qualified to Degree standard. All practitioners attend regular training and we work as a team to plan, prepare and create programmes together. All of our practitioners have an Enhanced CRB and have attended Safeguarding, Equity in Your Coaching and Emergency First Aid training. All carry identification with them when delivering. All practitioners are covered by TIN Arts’ Employers and Public Liability Insurance.

How do TIN Arts practitioners deliver? Our practitioners will do all of the planning and preparation before each workshop to ensure it is of high quality and addresses the needs of the particular participants. To enable us to plan effectively we feel it is beneficial for the youth leader or teacher to inform us of what the participants are interested in or what the focus of the workshops should be. This may be in the form of a theme, stimulus, issue or other topic. Often schools ask us deliver a session to complement the topics and themes in curriculum areas, or to help teachers deliver dance to tie in with the National Curriculum or QCA guidance. All this is possible and available upon request.

All of our sessions follow a set structure: Warm-up: Either games or technique exercises to prepare

the mind and body for activity. Focus: The point at which new ideas or themes are

introduced by the practitioner either through a game, creative task or discussion.

Exploration: This is the point at which we give the participants the freedom and space to be truly creative and express their ideas, thoughts or movements. From the outside it may seem slightly chaotic, but being given the chance to create original ideas is an extremely important of the process.

Closing: A chance for the group to share what they have created and appreciate each others’ achievements.