Education
Happy & Healthy Learning Together
The recent SHINE Report highlighted that young learners in Aberdeen are facing poor mental health, negative body positivity issues and have a perceived fear of the future.
Creative Learning, together with Hazlehead and Ashley Road Primary Schools, developed a design thinking based project, to improve health & wellbeing for all. Four local Freelance Artists led the project along with the pupils to discuss the issues raised and develop a project to help express our young people’s thoughts and fears.
Arts Across Learning Festival
Creative Learning are currently progressing the Arts Across learning Festival for 2020, a celebration and exploration of the arts and their value to learning and teaching. The festival brings a stimulating wealth of learning experiences to spark imagination and enthusiasm for learning to nursery and primary pupils and their teachers for free!
This year’s Arts Across Learning Festival will take place from 24 February to 6 March 2020. Download the festival brochure to see what was on offer:
Through a range of art forms, the festival will present alternative and engaging approaches to inter-disciplinary learning. This helps enable children to deepen their learning, express themselves, recognise their own abilities and share their learning with their peers and parents. Festival learning opportunities are delivered by experienced artists, companies and educators who work with Creative Learning to ensure that activities are designed to meet festival learning outcomes.
Ahead of launching this year’s Arts Across Learning Festival, Creative Learning are delighted to share the impacts from the Arts Across Learning Festival 2019.
The Arts Across Learning Festival continues to inspire learning and teaching, focusing on creative thinking and doing. The festival promotes imagination, curiosity, open-mindedness and problem solving and encourages children to develop and recognise their skills across these areas. This report indicates the impact the festival has on children and teaching and includes case studies giving a flavour of festival activity across pupil engagement, local partnerships and resources and working with local arts providers.
The festival programme would not be as varied and interesting without the participation of the many artists and companies from both Aberdeen and further afield. Partnership working across services and sectors helps make the programme what it is – and continues to see the festival go from strength to strength.
Employability
ABZWorks - No one left behind
Creative Learning deliver one to one sessions or small group creative workshops, enabling and empowering Young People (15-25), who are not in education or employment, to improve their personal and employability skills.
Sustaining Life As An Artist – Working With People
Creative Learning commissioned Glasgow CAN to deliver their Participatory Arts Short Course (PASC), a unique vocational training programme. We collaborated to develop a bespoke offer tailored to the needs of the ten individuals signed up to the professional development programme.