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Catalyst: Inspiring Arts Ideas for Teachers

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Struggle for confidence when teaching the arts? Looking for some fresh lesson ideas you can use across the curriculum? Catalyst is a programme of inspiring arts-based teacher training days running across the academic year.

Each Catalyst day is designed to help integrate the arts into your teaching practice. During the day you will work with professional artists and practitioners to build confidence in using the arts. Workshops will teach techniques and skills that you will feel confident to use across the curriculum.

The day will pass on interactive and innovative teaching ideas for P3 to P6. Each event will work with two art forms from: poetry, visual arts, drama, storytelling, dance and music.

There are a maximum of 30 places available per day so we strongly recommend booking soon as places fill up quickly. Catalyst 11.12 Booking Form

Thanks to generous funding from the Maaike McInnes Charitable Trust each day costs just £45 per person which includes lunch and a free copy of our 120 page Teachers Book.

Our Scotland dates for 2011/12 are:

25th April – Palace of Hollyrood, Edinburgh – Visual Art & Poetry

11th May – Aberdeen Arts Centre – Drama & Music

26th & 27th April – Dumfries House, Ayrshire – art forms tbc, call for more info

 For more information and to book please email catalyst@childrenandarts.org.uk or call 020 3326 2230

Curriculum for Excellence, Music

CPD opportunity- primary teachers

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This one hour introductory session demonstrates how the ukulele can be successfully used to deliver the music curriculum to primary pupils by the class teacher. No previous musical or instrumental experience is required. The session is hands on with all present involved in learning to strum along to some simple well known tunes.

Participants will learn two chords and a simple strumming pattern on the ukulele, allowing them to accompany some well known songs and play along to a backing track – all within one hour!

Mon 23rd-Apr-12 4-5pm ASDARC

Fife Youth Music Initiative are looking for a limited number of schools to be involved in a “Ukulele in the Classroom” project in session 2012/13 which would include funding of instruments for one class and full training and support materials for the class teacher. More details of this funding opportunity will be discussed with staff attending the twilight session and expressions of interest can be registered at the end of the session or there after.