Chameleon Creative Learning Project Management

The Chameleon Creative Learning Project is working with 15 schools in the North East Lincolnshire area and is financially supported by funds from:

• Education Excellence Cluster,
• North East Lincolnshire Council,
• participating schools
• the Department of Children, Schools and Families - DCSF (formerly DfES),
• Arts Council, Yorkshire.

There are four such Pilot schemes in the Yorkshire and Humberside region. Leeds, Calderdale and Wakefield are the others.

Photo by Scott Middleton

The two key outcomes from the DfES funding are:

1. A greater number of schools and school staff will be changing their practice to place creativity at the heart of learning and teaching, and will be working innovatively with creative practitioners and organisation to help achieve this aim.
2. A greater number of Local Authority children's services and other regional organizations will be delivering Creative Partnerships objectives on their own accord, with 'learning for creativity' at the heart of their strategies for children and young people.

The Chameleon Creative Learning project has two main strands:

1. Continuous Professional Development - a series of training programmes for teachers and for creative practitioners was held in 2007. As a result, 118 teacher days places and  51 creatives days were reached across 6 days of training.
2. Project delivery: 15 schools have taken on a wide diversity of creative projects, ranging from film-making, drama, book-making, writing, crafts and sculptures and totalling 228 days of contact time.  Each individual project is designed to impact on an aim in the School Improvement Plan.

The project - and the celebratory conference on 9 July - is coordinated and administered by Alex Hallowes and Tim Harris for the Music and Performing Arts Service of North East Lincolnshire Council (MAPAS).  For further details, please contact MAPAS.

Photo by Scott Middleton

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