Please find below information about the 'Seeing with New Eyes' workshop we are offering to teachers in Gloucestershire in how to use photography effectively in schools.
- You will feel empowered to teach simple and effective photography skills to children
- Learn new techniques to use in the classroom to support children to see the world around them with a new perspective
- Pass on ideas and skills to other staff in your school
Please also find information about what to expect on the day and how children and your school as an organisation can benefit from photography.
The workshop is supported by Create Gloucestershire, Stroud Valleys Artspace, andGastrells Community Primary School
If you, or another representative from your school would like to attend, please let me know asap.
The workshop is supported by Create Gloucestershire, Stroud Valleys Artspace, and
If you, or another representative from your school would like to attend, please let me know asap.
Apologies for the short notice given. If you are unable to attend the 17th April but are interested in the workshop, we will run it again later in April/May/June.
With best wishes
Ruth
With best wishes
Ruth
Seeing with New Eyes
Free workshop at Gastrells Community Primary School
Workshop aim:
To deliver a pilot photography and film based workshop that will provide teachers with new creative tools and approaches to use in the classroom and for organisational development.
We will offer the pilot to up to 10 representatives from primary schools in the county, including those working with disabled children, and those with a higher number of children from BME communities and others facing exclusion. Gastrells Primary School
Activities:
- Use quiet, reflection and focus as a part of a contemplative process that encourages vision and creativity.
- Use mounts and cameras to look again and take photos – e.g. explore the relationship between the natural and built environment of the school, and portraits
- Download photos, edit, discuss
Facilitated discussion about using photography and film as a tool:
- Links with the curriculum
- Specific issues/needs/interests e.g. identity, health, wellbeing, food, the environment
- Use of treasure hunts, story boards
- Needs of schools as organisations: evidencing work and progress, the school’s vision, team building, promotion for website, reports etc.
- Technicalities, equipment, resources, exhibitions
Evaluation:
- Feedback and ideas for developing the workshop further: benefits to schools, reaching other schools, including secondary, and the wider community
- We will document the day through photography for evaluation and promotional purposes.
Outcomes:
- Participants will feel empowered to teach simple effective photography skills to children.
- Participants will pass on skills and ideas to other staff in their schools.
- Using the contemplative and Look Again approach, children will be encouraged to slow down and see the world around them with a new perspective.
We will use feedback and ideas from the workshop to develop it further and offer it to other schools, educational institutions and community organisations in Gloucestershire and beyond. As arts education funding is currently not readily available, we believe a more sustainable approach is to offer workshops to teachers as part of inset days/ staff development training. Leading on from this pilot we would produce promotional material that will broker links with educational providers who may wish to provide their staff with new skills to use in the classroom. We already have links with numerous schools in Gloucestershire, the Star College , Stroud College
About Ruth Davey
My current artistic practice explores the relationship between people and the planet, the juxtaposition and interaction of the natural and the made, our place in the world and human relationships. Colour, texture and abstract form are my inspiration, as are the people that I meet. Key interests include sustainable living, social justice, arts and culture, and the relationship between the local and the global. I have recently set up a photography/film-based business, ‘Look Again’, offering commissions, workshops and personal, community and business development projects.
Experience of working with schools / in education
Over the years I have worked with other artists in schools in The Gambia (with artXchange), Bristol
About Nikki Simpson
As a visual artist I utilise film and photography as my main mediums of communication. My work focuses on the human relationship to the natural world and how we as humans inform and effect our environment, I am a passionate advocate of the use of the visual arts as a vehicle for social change and I currently run a number of film and photography workshops within the local community. Examples of workshops:
Contemplative photography - A practice that encourages participants to slow down and to start to look more closely at the world around them, capturing what they see through photography.
Digital memory box projects – working with marginalised client groups (disabled, elderly) to produce a sequenced photographic or video piece that tells a story about their life or an issue they are passionate about.
Experience of working with schools / in education
As an artist I have run photography workshops in a number of Gloucestershire schools. I have been employed by GLOSS and RIO on a number of occasions. I have also worked as an arts co-ordinator setting up and running arts education projects both in the UK
March 2012
Ruth Davey and Nikki Simpson
(please do not contact Art Shape about the opportunity - contact Ruth or Nicky directly - no phone numbers were given to Art Shape)
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