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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Kiltonthorpe School , which is a Special school in Brotton, Cleveland, achieved Specialist Arts College status just over three years ago.

The students across all areas of the school have enjoyed a vast range of Art, ICT, Film and Dance opportunities , and the school community celebrate their achievements with a special event., on Wednesday 23rd November 2011 .

We invited all parents of Secondary and 6^th Form students to our afternoon Cinematic showing of the best of our Arts College work from the last three years, along with Governors and Friends of the school, including ex-students. .

Kiltonthorpe Film-maker and Animators Adam Reamswood and Ben Hopkinson presented an impressive show, supported by Lauren Henderson, Arts Facilitator.

The 40 minute programme of film clips, movies, animations and videos of activities, followed a packed morning where students attended workshops within school. Classes ranged from Physical Theatre and Stage combat , Circus skills, Photography, Drumming, Batik, Textiles, Art and Craft, Multi-sensory experience with Head massage and Face Painting.

It was a fabulous day, being able to share our successes with the students, staff, artists and practitioners who have featured highly in our Arts Programmes, over the years.

The event was planned by Director of Specialism, Kate Watson and organised by Neil Walker of Club Creative, (neil@club-creative.co.uk) with his team of student Event organisers.

Another great week in Lady Lumley’s School in Pickering and Ryedale in Nawton. Funded with the last of the Extended School budget (another victim of the cuts) these fantastic creative days allow Y6 pupils ‘stepping up’ to Y7 secondary schools the opportunity to have fun, make new friends and feel more confident about the coming academic year.

Activities provided by Club Creative included Graffiti Art, Carnival Drumming, Stage Combat and Bollywood dance. Photos and a short film will be uploaded soon so please keep checking back.

If you are sad to see the demise of Extened Schools funding and co-ordinators please feel free to leave your comments.

The children of Bader Primary in Thornaby and John E Batty in Redcar have been working all year with Club Creative artists on a range of arts after school clubs. Images from last half term can be found here and we can’t wait to see what they have been up to recently but the artists are very excited!

If you would activity for your school be it after school clubs, major projects, work with disengaged pupils or Gifted & Talented – Club Creative can help.

Club Creative is looking for an artist (or artists) to produce a minimum of three murals to be installed in a primary school canteen in Yarm, Teesside, England (NOT YARM PRIMARY SCHOOL). The murals will be designed with pupils in a series of workshops to take place in the summer term.

The school have been successful in obtaining Canteen Rescue funding from the School Food Trust and the object is to transform the canteen’s appearance and encourage pupls to take up school meals and in particular healthy school meal options. The pupils have already explored some design themes during the application process and these themes should be incorporated by the artist into the finished murals.

The key deliverable are: Fully redecorate all walls within the dining space with an artistic impression of Yarm High Street, to incorporate healthy food and school messages. Specific messages and themes will be discussed once an initial proposal has been accepted.

The murals should be both 2D and 3D and be sturdy enough to last many years in the busy canteen environment. The murals should be created on wall mountable plywood or other suitable material to enable the school to take them down safely for decorating purposes.

The budget for the project including a minimum of 6 workshop days, materials, design preparation, travel and installation is £3500.

Please use the contact form to express your interest. Once you receive a reply please email a proposal including relevant experience and examples of previous work in no more than 500 words, an up to date CV, and most up to date CRB number, issue date and awarding body by Friday 22 April for the attention of Neil Walker, Club Creative.

Additional info:

All mural heights are roughly 2 meters.

Approximate widths as follows:

Mural 1 : 5 meters width

Mural 2 : Corner mural 1.5 meters + adjoining wall 3.5 meters

Mural 3 : Corner mural 1 metre + adjoining wall 1 metre.

UPDATE 18/4/11

There has been an overwhelming response to this opportunity resulting in a slight delay in responding to enquiries. We will be making a shortlist after the submission deadline from which the school will select the successful artist. The successful artist will be notified by 11/5/11.

UPDATE 13/5/11

The school have been busy with SATS so the successful artist will be chosen w/c 16/5/11. Thanks for your patience.

Here are some pics from the last few weeks of after school art clubs that Club Creative is running at John E Batty primary in Redcar. We are running art clubs for every year group across the 2010-11 academic year

Hi all, it’s been a busy few weeks during which I have personally visited the majority of primary and secondary school in Middlesbrough, Stockton, and Redcar & Cleveland. New projects have been planned, and some have begun.

John E Batty Primary in Redcar has enjoyed the first half term of after school arts workshops. Club Creative will be working which each year group over the course of the school year, ensuring all pupils have the opportuntity to access after school creative activity.

Marton-cum-Grafton school near York has just finished 6 weeks of after school art club, with demand strong for the club to continue after half term. This is the first time Club Creative has worked in the school and we have enjoyed every minute.

Our partnership with Kilton Thorpe Special school continues to develop with weekly full day film making workshops every Friday. We can’t wait to see the finished results!

We continue to provide creative activity for the Main Project social clubs, and we begin weekly Short Breaks provision for children and young people with disabilities. Catering for all disabilities, this club is by direct referral via social workers only and is designed as respite care funded by the Aiming High for Disabled Children Fund.

Half term activity in Oakfields School in Middlesbrough signals the start of what we hope will be a significant and long lasting partnership with the school. Club Creative is providing film making, street dance and art sessions for a range of ages.

With cartoon clubs in Egglescliffe and St Mary’s schools underway,  art clubs and a Thornaby’s Got Talent club in Thornaby CoE Primary, an amazing project with East Coast Training to engage their young people with an artist to create a permanent piece of steel sculpture, Arty Parties planned with Tees Valley Leisure, and much more in the pipeline, it’s going to be a busy end to year!

That’s all for now.

Neil.

Click here for a review of our Shakin Summer Shakespeare summer school!

Step Up 7 in Pickering & Malton was a two week summer school for Y6 pupils held in their new secondary schools. Four creative workshops each day made for a fun packed two weeks with 12 Club Creative staff working each day.

In Saltburn artists Derek Mosey and Helen Gaunt created two large mosaics that are now hung in the main entrance and main corridor of the new school to welcome all vistitors. They look amazing. These pics are work in progress.

Hi again, our Shakin Summer drama summer school got off to a great start with a small but perfectly formed group of children at Layfield School in Yarm on Monday. The children will learn drama techniques, develop the script and dialogue, make costumes and design the set then perform for family and friends at the end of the week.

The mosaic project at Saltburn Learning Campus concludes today. A group of children from the primary and secondary school have been working with two artists to produce two mosaics which will be hung in the entrance and in the main entrance corridor to act as a welcome to the school. We can’t wait to see the results.

As previously mentioned, the Club Creative 2010/11 academic year wall planners are ready to be despatched. If you would like to order one, or your organisation would like a bulk order, please get in touch. A1 and in full colour, They make a much more  attractive calendar than your standard office wall chart!