“Learning through the arts and culture and creativity enriches education, stimulates imagination and innovation, and provides children with exciting and fulfilling experiences that they build on throughout their lives. We want to see more of that kind of activity experienced by more and more children and young people in every part of Scotland.”
EDUCATION AND THE ARTS, CULTURE & CREATIVITY: AN ACTION PLAN
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Louise
We would really like to see more children and young people engaging with poetry. We feel that using Glow to facilitate a virtual writing group would be a fantastic method of getting people together who couldn’t normally interact. In this manner we can encourage more children to get involved with our poetry competition in the first instance, but also provide a “place” where children can support and encourage each other to write and share their poetry.
If there are any young people who use or attend the other groups who you feel might liek to be invloved with this – please let me know so we can pull a group together fife-wide.
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Zoe
StAnza
The setting up of the Creative Learning Network has come at an ideal time for Fife Council’s museum service as we are redeveloping Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery and working on an HLF bid for a new museum for Dunfermline. This gives us a framework within which to devote more thinking and planning time than we sometimes feel we get in the day-to-day running of a service. We’ll be looking at how we interact with all our visitors but children – both visiting with their families and as part of formal education – are one of our key audiences.
Arts, Culture and Creativity compliments and enhances Curriculum for Excellence to the benefit of educationalists and children in Fife.
There needs to be stronger links between key education contacts and creative practitioners. There are places within Fife where creative practitioners have fantastic relationships with schools but it does not happen throughout the whole of Fife. Hopefully Fife’s Creative Learning Network is a positive step in looking at this but it is only a small step in the grand scheme of things.
I feel that we have some amazing creative and cultural practitioners right here on our doorstep, but still they struggle to make those links into Fife schools. What stops that? How can Fife’s Creative Learning Network help address that? Does the Education links on the network need to be wider? What are the pros and cons to developing creative projects within schools and utilising external creative and cultural practitioners to deliver these projects? Does it all just come down to budgets at the end of the day?
We have the technology of glow, but perhaps creative practitioners and teachers need an opportunity to discuss this face to face through some organised networking opportunities. I also feel that perhaps some support is required in the form of workshops eg ‘Curriculum for Excellence for the creative practitioner’ or along that theme.
Area Cultural Co-ordinator
North East Fife/Levenmouth Areas