Video ‘evaluation’ of the Girly Girls and Macho Men project we did with Billericay School. It’s about 18 minutes long but loaded with great ideas on how the project was conducted.

We’ve worked with West Essex CSS (Children Support Services) in Harlow, Essex for the past two, three years. Often with photography and video based projects we’re limited to what we can share online (due to child protection issues) but these animations are perfect for sharing. Although we were limited with the time we had to work with the pupils, they were able to produce some high quality animation work. The theme was bullying and these mix media animations are the pupils take on the subject. Hope you enjoy they them and leave a comment as an encouragement to the kids!

Social Network – Cyber Bullying

Robot Bully

Armadillo

Project Title: ‘Girly Girls and Macho Men’
School: The Billericay School, Essex
Funding/Organisation: Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships

Suklaa Role: Project Manager/ Creative Practitioner/ Documentation
Description:
 This gender intervention project was designed as creative approach to tackling a real issue within the school. Staff noticed that certain groups of both boys and girls were not achieving what they were capable of. When interviewed the groups of girls told us they found it difficult to think of people they are inspired by. This sent alarm bells ringing! We must find inspirational women for the young people to engage with! This project is completely collaborative and is co-designed by young people, staff and creative practitioners who are unpicking gender stereotypes and issues of masculinity and femininity. The girls project was launched when the girls were picked up in limos and driven to a country house to look at how women are portrayed in the media and explore their intelligences. The boys launched in West Ham United Football Club where they toured the stadium and found out about the multiple roles men play within the business. This aspirational project will link with various businesses and professionals from multiple industries. We don’t know quite what the outcomes will be but hope the girls who design, organise and host a conference full of talks by inspirational women and the boys will go on to write, produce and star in a piece of theatre that explores what it means to be a man. Watch this space for updates!

The following videos were made by teachers and teaching assistants at Briary Primary School in Kent, UK. They were made in under an hour in an attempt to learn how to plan, film and edit videos quickly. Most of the participants had never edited videos before. We think the results are great- and they told us they’d be very happy making podcasts with their students now!

This project was part of the Future Creative managed Creative Partnerships Change School Programme.

How to use Kodak Zi8 cameras.

Click here to watch: http://suklaa.s3.amazonaws.com/perm/how-to-use-kodak-zi8.m4v.

Review of our experiences in out ICT Twilights.

Click here to watch: http://suklaa.s3.amazonaws.com/perm/teachers-experiences-of-ict-training.m4v.

Learn connective words *AND* how to wash your hands!

Click here to watch: Connective words plus how to wash your hands.

How to tie your shoe laces

Click here to watch: How to tie your shoe laces.

Simple Multiplication

Click here to watch: Simple Multiplication.

Quick intro to speed stacking

Click here to watch: Speed Stacking

How to use a badge maker

Click here to watch: How To Make Badges

Use clay, make a thumb pot.

Click here to watch: Thumb Pot Video

More coming later this week!

Project Title: Leadership and Creative Collaboration
School: Gable Hall Performing Arts College
Funding/Organisation: Gable Hall School

Suklaa Role: Darina from Suklaa collaborated with Claudia Barwell to design and deliver this work.
Description:
 Claudia Barwell and myself were briefed by Corinne Franceschi, Deputy Head Teacher at Gable Hall School to design a day for the newly appointed Student Executive to help them become good leaders. During the packed day we considered each team member’s individual skills and talents; we ran activities that explored multiple intelligences; we looked at making change happen; we worked with ideas generation and how to host successful meetings; we helped the students pitch ideas to senior staff members. We hope this day is the start of a longer relationship with this core team of students- where we help them make change happen within their school community and beyond.

Some quotes from the participants:

I think it was good how we got to learn everyone’s strengths and weaknesses so that we can now give people tasks to work to their advantages and have people to help with their problems. It was a great day.

I’ve learnt actual life skills that I can apply in real life situations. I learnt how to handle a meeting situation and learnt a lot about myself.

We’ve discovered who we are and our strengths and weaknesses. I feel empowered to make change and don’t feel like I’m being babied anymore. I feel like my ideas are accepted and respected. Thank you so much.

If we did what we did today in year 7, we would have been a much closer group of people so much earlier on. Boundaries have been broken down, judgements of people and judgements of ourselves. Definitely an exercise everyone should have the opportunity to take part in.

If you can change 26 attitudes in a day; then if we did this with everyone, you can change everything – drastically. Everyone should do it.

Project Title: India – A Sensory Overload
School: Winter Gardens Primary School, Canvey Island
Funding/Organisation: Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships

Suklaa Role: Creative Practitioner- production designer
Description:
 In six days, set across six weeks, we worked with year 3 students and teachers to help boost imagination and literacy skills. Using their chosen topic of India we worked with the 50 young people all together and in small groups allowing them to create scenes for a play. The play had 5 scenes each set in a Delhi market place, and each one was designed around one of the senses. The young people then performed their interactive short play in front of their proud parents and other classes- finishing the whole extravaganza with some fantastic Bollywood dancing! This was a massive achievement for the year group- everyone had a part to play and the literacy lessons really came alive!