Project Name: School(s): Meadowbrook College Local Authority: Oxfordshire Creative Partner(s) Dionne Barber and Pegasus Creative Agent: Judy Munday Year Group(s) / Young People involved: Years 10 and 11 Start Date: September 2009End Date: July 2010 Change Schools Virtual Scrapbook

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisation change What didn’t work so well ? Next questions Photograph from Spatial awareness workshop

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisatio n change What didn’t work so well ? Next questions Enjoy and achieve Higher levels of Motivation Awareness of wider community and social conscience Achieving economic success – the enterprise project encourages the link between personal input and economic results Meadowbrook College Enterprise Exhibition May 26 th -20 th June John Radcliffe Hospital

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisation change What didn’t work so well ? Next questions Confidence in using creative approaches Fresh incites Better communication leading to higher levels of engagement Improved behaviour of young people Enterprise artwork produced by year 11 student

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisation change What didn’t work so well ? Next questions Type and insert pictures here … Term 1: Project planning time and meeting and introducin g project to staff Term 2: Harlow Centre Visual workshops with Dionne Barber working with staff and students. Focusing on Identity- self expression, self awareness; exploring students own character- likes/dislikes, control, reaction and attitude. Westbar enterprise, working with links with Help The Aged (selling on behalf of students at Banbury Market- with a donation and a spokesperson to come in to give a talk to help put into context). Taking on company job roles and creating stock, looking at other Enterprise initiatives with the students.

Term 3: Westbar & Harlow Centre Willow Workshops, Clay/wire and painting workshops with Dionne in response to Museum experiences and starting mask making, thinking about identity Museum of Natural History Visit both sides to run a handling and introduction workshop Visits out to Oxford University Museum of Natural History, The Pitt Rivers Museum, with drawing and photography

Term 4: Westbar: working on curriculum subject’s inking with The Museums collections and the theme of identity and self expression Westbar & Harlow Centre Visit to the Ashmolean Museum The Oxford University museums education staff visiting centres; providing students and staff with the opportunity to handle the collections; on site work produced in education rooms; Working alongside Dionne Barber to create and express responses and findings of experiences. Continuing findings back at school

Term 5: Enterprise Exhibition at the John Radcliffe hospital, also students advertising and running 2 hospital; stalls selling cards and postcards of printed artwork in the exhibition, with donations going to the children's hospital. Staff and Students were also given a tour of the children's hospital to see where the money will go. Spatial awareness workshops looking at movement, moving onto pattern with tea bag throwing Starting to think of designs for outside space- looking at stenciling and using poetry from English Literature as inspiration Harlow Centre visit Dionne Barber & Adam Griffths’s Exhibition “Live Art” and respond to work

Enterprise Cards & Postcards, images on front with company logo on back

Term 6: Both Centre's putting together designs for outside space, then learning how to work and paint on a large scale; using colour and application techniques to transform the space Change Schools Exhibition at Oxford University museum of Natural History, celebrating all the work produced over the year

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisation change What didn’t work so well ? Next questions Type and insert pictures here … Students and staff doing Art GCSE, used advice and guidance from Dionne to inform their choices during their exams and coursework; using new materials, approaches and techniques resulting in B & C GCSE grades

A rise in artistic confidence and knowledge from staff and students enabled Westbar to produce a mural in the outside space in a day workshop; transforming the outside space, and highlighting progression of staff and students.

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisation change What didn’t work so well ? Next questions Starting point was meeting with staff to build relationships and plan workshops effectively November- December 2009 weekly visual workshops with Dionne Barber. Focusing on Identity, self Awareness; exploring students own character- likes/dislikes, control, reaction and attitude January handling visits from the Museum of Natural History, giving students incite and knowledge and the confidence to make full use of the return visits to the museums These experiences were then used to inform and inspire work over terms 3-6 Museum of Natural History visit to the Harlow Centre January 2010, Please click on icon to listen to audio “I reckon Dionne is a good at showing how to do art, and easy to get along with; what we’ve been doing is relaxing and I enjoy doing it” Year 10 student June2010 Regular discussions and feedback from staff and students was essential to the progression of the project, students were also given sketchbooks which worked really well for some students

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisation change What didn’t work so well ? Next questions I have been more flexible in my anticipated outcomes Offered a variation of options to students and staff in workshops so participants have choice Giving regular project updates in different form- calendars visuals and written Staff have learnt new approaches & techniques Staff have learnt new ways of creating dialogue with students Harlow Centre Staff during Willow workshops

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisation change What didn’t work so well ? Next questions Deciding on an appropriate product to see initially for enterprise side of product Once work was started on the printed cards for enterprise this flowed really well and engaged students with successful outcomes Group sizes varied due to students timetables changing, this did have positive outcomes for keeping the project fresh and energised Identity Workshop November 2009

OverviewContextInitial Questions ProcessImpacts on Young People Young People’s Creativity Adult Learning & organisation change What didn’t work so well? Next questions Change Schools Exhibition, Oxford University Museum of Natural history July 14 th - August 2 nd 2010 Visits out at the start of the project to springboard the project giving it respect and value; helping put it in context for students and staff Students to all have sketchbooks to use for personal reflection and to help record reflections and progress Link with The Oxford University Museums collections Build on links built through initial visits in year 2 of change schools Visits to museums in terms 1 & 2 (between September and December 2010), to springboard project; putting change Schools into context for students and staff Using specific areas of the collections as a focus Young Ambassadors: students and staff to make the University of Oxford Museums more accessible through their eyes; creating visual advertisements for the museums from their perspective. With students and staff using their own experiences to create artwork to encourage others to use the museum facilities. Working through and discovering the preconceptions of their own and others; students will be gain new skills and experiences, helping with motivation, social skills and attitude; with a new familiarity and understanding of museums. Possibility of work created culminating in an exhibition at one of the museums, and some designs made into advertising posters

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