Drama Geezers are a duo with a passion for drama and want to share that with young people. The partnership includes Simon, who worked with many of our schools last year on our Confident Creators project and you may recognise from Channel 4s The Secret Life of 4 and 5 year olds. They have shared some great activities, both in school and for parents and children at home, on their You Tube channel . Find out more on the link!
https://www.dramageezers.com/youtubechannel
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Our partners at Oxford University Press are focussing on how they can support children whether at home or school over the coming months. Their weblink for parents gives a wealth of ideas for things to do at home, in addition to activity sheets and ebooks available for free.
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/advice-for-parents/fun-ideas-learning-at-home/
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We wanted to share the web address of artist Keri Smith who has set up daily art ideas for children to do at home using objects around us.Here’s an example from yesterday:
Mar 18 Written By Keri Smith
Listen to all of the sounds in your environment. We are going to use these sounds to represent different drawing commands. For example, If you hear music, then you draw some squiggly lines. If you are hearing many sounds at once you must pick one at a time to draw. Here is a set of rules, but feel free to make up your own rules based on the sounds unique to your environment. You could also use different sounds to represent different colors.
music = squiggly lines
human voices = small dots
bird sounds = dotted lines
traffic/car sounds = fast scribbles
machine sounds = circles
dog barking = triangles
silence = cloud shapes
person yelling = dark, thick lines
airplane = smudges
Research: Pauline Oliveros
“Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing.” -Pauline Oliveros
https://www.explorationoftheday.com/
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In these uncertain and unprecedented times, we want to share as many useful resources as possible with our school communities. The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families has developed pioneering mental health care for over 60 years. They have shared the following guidance for supporting school communities. Please share with your networks.
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Its been wonderful seeing how our friendly occasional matches and one off girls football tournaments for primary children have developed over the last few terms into a 16 team league! We are very lucky to have built a partnership with a local charity, Girls United FA, Fulham Foundation, Powerleague and The Black Prince Trust. Girls United works with girls and women promoting football opportunities for all ages. They are currently running a number of inspiring events open to everyone to come to, and a tournament on International Womens Day, 7th March, for teams to join – from beginners to intermediate and a men’s tournament. We look forward to developing lots more opportunities over the year.
Play like a girl – 7th March womens football tournament.docx
Here are just some of the activities families can do together this weekend.
Today is the last day of term for most of us and what a busy term its been! Thank you to all our amazing partner organisations and individuals who have worked with us this term and enriched the learning for our staff, children and young people. A few highlights have included the development of our primary girls football offer through work with Black Prince Trust, Powerleague, Girls United FA and Fulham Football Club. Last month over 100 girls were playing football together and next term we shall start our league with 16 teams signed up! On our Paul Hamlyn Foundation Confident Creators programme, now in its second year, we have been delighted to work with Pegasus Opera and artist Liz Atkin – some wonderful lessons have been delivered this term from songwriting with year 1 classes on The Stick Man to children making fabulous Antarctic sea creatures from clay in year 2 and many more. We are delighted to have made a start with our new creative writing project with storymaker Steven Camden and Cath Greenwood from the Unicorn Theatre. funded by the Laurel Trust, and look forward to developing this work in 2020. The BLC is interested in supporting the whole child and our work with Guys and St Thomas’ Charity puts children’s health and well being high on our agenda. We are excited to see the new Oval House theatre building go up in Brixton and have been delighted that pupils from Hill Mead and St John’s Angell Town Primary have been working with architects Matt and Fiona to design a temporary performance space that will be used in the summer whilst the permanent building is completed. Our Science partnership with Ogden Trust has got off to a great start with high quality training for teachers across the cluster, Nursery through to KS4 and we look forward to a strong Science focus next term with our annual Science Fair at St Gabriel’s College. This is just a snap shot of some of the things we have done this term. Thanks to all the staff and families in our schools for their endless support and enthusiasm this term and of course to the pupils in our schools. Wishing everyone a very happy break and looking forward to 2020.
Yesterday over 100 primary aged girls congregated at the Powerleague pitches at The Black Prince Trust to take part in our latest girls football tournament. We have seen girls football grow over the year, from some friendly matches in local schools to an event that now attracts teams from across the borough playing together. This has been largely due to the building of a partnership of organisations supporting the work – The Black Prince Trust, Fulham Football Club, Girls United and Powerleague working with our cluster and our neighboroughing clusters Oval and Windmill. Following 4 group heats and 2 semi-finals the winners yesterday were Walnut Tree Walk Primary. It was fantastic to see girls from different teams putting teams together and playing whilst the semis and final were going on, before the presentation of team and individual medals. Thanks to all staff, organisations and the pupils for a great event.
The Brixton Learning Collaborative 