Current Education Projects
NEW: Teachers' CPD
Inside: Out
8th July 2008
On Tuesday July 8th, Northern Architecture will be holding a CPD day for KS2 teachers based on exploring and designing in the school grounds. During the event, at Peases West School, County Durham, teachers will work with a landscape architect and artist to experiment with new ways of working outdoors with pupils. Peases West School and Colour: Urban Design Ltd, who are helping support and deliver the event, will be showing what they have achieved so far, through their school grounds-based Creative Partnerships project, whilst artist Vicky Holbrough will be demonstrating how pupils can create their own willow dens. There will be the opportunity for delegates to practice various techniques and reflect on how the activities could translate into work with pupils back in school.Places on the CPD course are limited and cost £110 per delegate, including lunch and all materials. To book a place or for further information, please contact Sarah Allen on 0191 2602191 or email sarah@northernarchitecture.com
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Space Explorers
Key Stages 1 - 4
January - June 2008
On 18th January 2008, 15 volunteer architects/architectural assistants made their way to the Eversheds Office at Central Square, Newcastle, to take part in a training day in preparation for the Space Explorers project, which will send artists and architects to work in regional primary and secondary schools.
After a short round of introductions, participants were given the chance to find out about the different ways in which people learn and tested their own preferred styles of learning using the Inspiring Learning for All Learning Styles Activity. The activities devised for each of the 15 school projects will hopefully reflect this new knowledge, not to mention future presentations participants prepare for clients and stakeholders!
The remainder of the training event was an opportunity for volunteers to sample just some of the ways in which they could make exploring and understanding architecture accessible to children and young people. Four activities were set out, which participants trialled in order to evaluate their effectiveness and inform their own plans. These activities were:
1. Creating an interactive architecture ‘cool wall’ in which pupils could bring in images from magazines and newspapers to add to a the wall, evaluating how ‘cool’ the building was using criteria such as sustainability, style, comfort, character…
2. A simple language exercise to demonstrate how buildings and places communicate with us, exploring the facts, thoughts and feelings a building or place reveals when we observe it carefully
3. Using a simple recording template to support pupils when recording their observations of a place
4. Using word and image cards to explore the character of a building or place
From February to May, architects, artists and school teachers will be meeting, planning and delivering a series of activities to enable pupils to explore an element of their local built environment. If further funding applications are successful, the work of pupils will later be exhibited alongside schemes of work and activity plans to enable more teachers and pupils to experience and learn from the techniques trialled during the project.
Funded by: CABE, ACE, Ernest Cook Trust
Supported by: Ainsworth Spark Associates, Assael Architecture, Eversheds, Creating_Space, FaulknerBrowns, Halsall Llloyd Partnership, IDP-Northern, Jesmond Group Chartered Architects, Mackellar Architecture Ltd, Mosedale Gillatt Architects, Nicholson Nairn Architects, Purves Ash, Ryder, SMC Parr Architects, Walker Simpson Architects, Xsite Architecture
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