Education

Education...

"Sally helped me formulate my ideas and see the big picture of what my project will look like. She has been a great support and very efficient point of contact"
Year 8 Teacher, Gorsey Bank Primary School

Artsmark Teacher Consultation........

Sally worked with Arts Council England to research the support teachers needs when applying for new version of the scheme (launched 2011); made recommendations about communities of practice, training and network support, online and in person.

Artsmark up to 2010 ........................

In 2010 at the close of the Artsmark scheme, Arts Council England presented Sally with an Award for Commitment to the Arts in recognition of her contribution to Artsmark. Sally was one of Arts Council England's independent national project team for Artsmark, a three tier award system acknowleding the depth and breadth of arts provision in primary, secondary and special schools and PRU units. The national team advised Arts Council England on appropriate changes to the scheme on an annual basis, and mark each Artsmark award application. Sally also visited and talked to schools applying for the award in her additional role as validator.

Children's Art Day.............................

As part of Flow Associates Sally worked with colleagues on developing an award programme for London schools as part of Children's Art Day. The awards focussed on the creative application or interpretation of drawing, working with an artist, and encouraging the outdoors or buildings as a theme. The awards were commissioned by the Mayor of London with Engage.

Building Schools for the Future.....

Arts Council England NW, Manchester City Council and Creative Partnerships contracted Sally to conduct some early consultation around the aspirations of three schools about to become part of the BSF first round of school rebuilds. The brief specifically asked for opportunities for staff and students to think about ways of working with creative practitioners (eg artists, designers, architects) to collaborate on creating the new school.
Final recommendations were categorised around:
* creative consultation with students
* professional development for staff
* opportunities to use activity to contribute to raising attainment
* profile raising for schools, staff and students involved

Earlyarts.........................................

Contracted as Evaluation Consultant for Little Acorns, a part of Liverpool Capital of Culture, Sally explored a programme aiming to identify good practice in artists of all types, working in early years settings across Merseyside. The project invited the artists, staff and children to find ways of exploring the central themes of Liverpool, community, heritage, identity and family.

Sally also worked as Evaluation Consultant for a programme of creative interventions in children's centres and schools across the NW borough of St Helens. The project was co-ordinated by local authority children's services as part of their wider Give Us a Shout strategy to improve communication in children under 5 throughout the borough. The project involved a range of artists and therapists working across eight settings over a full school year.

Both projects linked to the Earlyarts national networking programme created and run by Isaacs UK.

Tate Liverpool.................................

Tate Liverpool commissioned Sally to create a Masters degree level module exploring the role of the contemporary art collection and artist in facilitating learning and social development in areas of urban regeneration. The module was part of Tate's University Network consortium programme, and part of a specific partnership with Manchester Metropolitan's Urban Education masters degree. The module included the regeneration context; resources, policies and planning; artist and community collaborative practice; experiential learning and art; working with community stakeholders; case studies of working with young people and developing local employment skills.

"The project management has run perfectly. It's been smooth and flexible and met all the unit requirements we aimed to achieve"
Head of Media Studies / Collegiate Group KS4 Lead; Manchester

...............Creative & Media Diploma

Sally recently managed two projects for Ideas Foundation, working with year 10 students fulfiling a unit of the new Creative & Media Diploma. The bespoke projects worked with schools, creative industry professionals, colleges and universities, and museums and galleries to complete live briefs set by clients. Project One asked a group of 14 year olds to create an ambient marketing campaign for a film festival; project two invited another group to make two short films exploring the past, present and future of Manchester's relationship with the TV industry. Sally brought in a range of professional experts in advertising, marketing, design, film, TV and broadcasting, working with them to ensure their involvement was both age appropriate, curriculum linked, enjoyable and challenging. Both briefs were live and resulted in real creative and promotional outcomes.

........Creative Partnerships & Built Environment

Manchester Metropolitan University's Centre for Urban Education contracted Sally as a Creative Agent to oversee six Enquiry projects with primary schools across Greater Manchester. The six schools (including two special schools) are working through action research projects which explore the question "How can play and the built environment facilitate creative curriculum development?". Sally works as critical friend to the schools, supporting and challenging them through their projects; brokering between schools and artists, designers, film makers and pedagogs; managing the budgets; facilitating the evaluation and ensuring pupils are involved as both conconstructors and participants of the projects.

............................Find Your Talent

As part of the national Find Your Talent programme, working with Liverpool pathfinders through Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Evaluating Key Stage 3 pupils' understanding of live music within their Merseyside localities; the progression of their learning throughout the project; and measuring their change in opinions of the music national curriculum. Also evaluating the project's capacity to impact on teaching staff's knowledge of how and where to commission live music for schools, and interpret live music as a resource for school based learning.

..................................MyArtSpace

Digital design company The Sea commissioned Sally to act as Education Consultant to the development of their Culture Online project, MyArtSpace (now called OOKL). MyArtSpace allowed pupils to use mobile phones in museums to collect images, information and tags about a wide choice of exhibits. Selections were then immediately stored to an individualised storeroom from which pupils could select and curate their own exhibitions based on their learning, and telling any story the pupil chose to create. Sally advised The Sea on the recruitment of partner museums and galleries, educationally appropriate develoment of the service, and developed associated resource packs, lesson plans and teacher professional development; and worked with teachers to evaluate the programme.

SALLY FORT