We are involve in:

• Creative partnerships, inset training sessions, early years sessions, long and short term residencies and other educational activities using Caribbean arts as a catalyst  to link the arts with the national curriculum and other themes or ideas.

• Community workshops  for the elderly, families, after school  groups, community groups and others (see community page) 

 

 ACTIVITIES In SCHOOLS

        Inset session for KS1  teachers and assistant teachers  using storytelling as a  stimulus to integrate different artforms with  the curriculum.

                           Movement/  Music

                Art

 Residency with Yr1 children using their imagination to  transform their space into a sea world to combine science,  lliteracy , movement and art.

Hermit crab

Electric eel

Star Fish

Inset training  carried out with  special needs teachers and assistant teachers. They experienced an integration of dance, drama, music  and craft with curriculum topics. Residencies with artists then followed at their school for Autistic children. The activities culminated with a marvellous performance.

autistic children doing  movement session to the rhythm of the drums in a storybuilding activity

Special needs teachers in a tableaux expressing their emotions at the end of a drama activity.

Early Years

We do residencies in early years settings, inset training for early years practitioners. At these sessions we use the arts to facilitate hands on exposure to other cultures and to link the national curriculum. Hence fostering the development of childrens creativity and artistic interest.  

 Our sessions  includes an integration of storytelling ,dance ,visual arts and music thus enabling the children to explore learning through different artistic mediums and  enabling practitioners and parents or carers to  identify new creative ways they can use to enhance their teaching styles.

ACTIVITIES

 Using story, movement and  freeze frames

to  explore "cat and mouse experiences".

Children  using instruments of their choice to represent animals in the jungle .

 Imaginative play as they transform their garden into a jungle. Using binoculars they search for jungle animals. A slide becomes an elephant and other objects they see are given  names of  jungle creatures. 

Using leaf printing technique they create patterns to make a jungle  sit -up-on.

Children build a plane using boxes. They pretend they are going on a trip to an African jungle.

Through discussions and reflection on activities introduced the teachers created a jungle area for  children to further use their imagination and explore other themes such as habitats and the young of animals.

 

      Incomplete elephant head piece at  a primary school 's carnival headpiece making  workshop    

 Exploring  Easter through dance.