Happy New Year to you all from Club Creative. 2012 promises to be a busy year for us with some big developments in Creative Enterprise and Arts Mark in schools, and work with hard to reach young people and adults in the community. We also continue to offer our regular programme of after school clubs, Y6 transition activities, creative fun days, workshops, events and much more.

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Since September 2009 we have worked with over 60 schools, youth centres, special schools, borough councils and community organisations. We have delivered over 600 individual workshops enabling over 6000 children, young people and adults to engage with creative activity. We deliver all art forms including performing arts, visual arts and crafts, digital film & media and circus skills.

Some examples of how Club Creative can work with you:

• Replace Creative Partnerships artist provision and project management
• Help improve your Ofsted rating
• Artsmark Status support, selecting artists, cultural venues and providing advice
• Bespoke Creative Enterprise projects
• Specialists working with SEN children, Special Schools and Gifted & Talented pupils
• Alternative provision for Disengaged Students
• Transition Days
• Create Performances, events, and concerts

Club Creative takes pride in being flexible, responsive and non-prescriptive. We work in partnership with schools and pupils to create bespoke projects. We can work with all ages and abilities from small groups of students to entire year groups

We can work across the curriculum to create projects that raise attainment, improve literacy and numeracy, train teachers and deliver a whole school approach to creative learning.

Club Creative has been working with schools in Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton and soon Middlesbrough to provide practical arts based alternative education for the most challenging, disengaged students.

We have years of experience designing learning programmes for those students who for a variety of reasons are not engaging with the school curriculum. Often with a strong Enterprise focus, we will teach students new creative skills whilst working towards a final exhibition, performance or even selling their produce at market to the general public.

The results have been astonishing with students surprising their teachers, support workers and parents with their focus and commitment. We have noticed a marked improvement in concentration, communication skills and confidence in the students.

Our Alternative Provision programmes are designed first and foremost to engage students with creative learning. We can also work with the school to fit the programme into existing qualification frameworks.

Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.

Club Creative has just won a contract to deliver a programme of creative activity for a Redcar & Cleveland Secondary school. The weekly full day sessions will aim to engage to most disengaged Y10 & Y11 students. Beginning with a series of taster workshops in the summer term, there will be a full programme of activity starting in September.

We require creative practitioners with experience of working with hard to reach young people. The overall aim is to engage, inspire, build confidence and self esteem whilst learning new creative skills. There should be an enterprise agenda built in to each activity.

Please get in touch if you would like to more information.

Thanks,

Neil

Club Creative is delighted to be providing Enterprise Workshops for young people attending Stockton Riverside College. Stockton Borough Council Regeneration and Economic Development department have enlisted our help in delivering two areas of enterprise activity.

The first is working with a group of 18 year olds to create jewellery and accessories which will be sold at Stockton Market. The difference is that these accessories have been made from old computer components and are completely recycled! Pics are here

The second activity is working with a group of 14-15yr olds to learn the basics of digital photography. The group will learn basic techniques then create their own abstract photographs using professional standard equipment. The images will be printed and mounted in recycled frames for sale at Stockton Market. Images will follow in due course.

If you would like to know how Club Creative can help your organisation deliver Alternative Provision, Enterprise Activities or any other type of creative activity, please get in touch.