Training Day 2 – Building Teacher Confidence

  What could be better than imagining your partner (someone you don’t know – although I don’t really think it would have been any less awkward if you did know them) being a tube of toothpaste – and yes, you needed to gently squeeze their arm, or leg; while repeating some … shall we say ‘interesting’…

Training Day 1

{9 schools 20 teachers 9 Headteachers 10 artists and 2 NPOs } This is it! We all met at Dance East a melting pot of anticipation, excitement, fear and some trepidation brewed as we gathered in the main performance studio. This was a day of learning from and with each other. Wendy steered the day,…

The Inbetweeners

These are the days where we have met as leaders of our project. Not necessarily in school time, we have met for twilight meetings, on the weekend and grabbed opportunity as we have passed in the corridors to affirm, confirm and outline where we go next. We are confident that the focus of vocabulary development…

Cohort Day 2 – Artists Practitioners 16th November 2018

A new venue but familiar faces. Today was filled with activities to interact with our PHF cohort -artists joined us to share in the creative fun. Throughout the day we used props, pens and paper, movement, dance and drama to build our confidence and understanding of our own experiences of the arts. Barriers to learning…

The Journey Begins

Teacher Development Fund Cohort Day 1 Imagine yourself surrounded by like minded colleagues, in an amazing environment – with a seemingly never-ending source of retro sweets and refreshments! From start to finish Wallacespace and our hosts from PHF made us feel exceedingly comfortable. It was a fabulous day and a half of networking with fellow educators and…