Early Years Arts in the Park

Early years arts in the park

Early Years Arts in the Park ‘I Could Do That!’

Nottinghamshire County Council Rufford Craft Centre, Ollerton Nottinghamshire NG22 9DF Tel: 01623 821 312 Email: artsadmin.cc@nottscc.gov.uk

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soundLINCS soundHOUSE 18 St Martins Lane Lincoln LN2 1HY www.soundlincs.org Tel: 01522 510073

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National Foundation for Youth Music Suites 3-5, Swan Court 9 Tanner Street London SE1 3LE www.youthmusic.org.uk

Tel: 0207 902 1060

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Welcome to - Nottinghamshire County Council Arts Service and soundLINCS are delighted to welcome you to the beautiful surroundings of Rufford Abbey Country Park for an exciting day of active creative learning.

Your bespoke workshops timetable is in your pack that accompanies this programme. Please ensure all adults in your group have a copy of this programme and timetable. please come to the Information and Registration Stand and let us know you have arrived. At this point, we will also require your completed and signed photography/media permission forms. For those children who cannot be photographed or filmed, please ensure you collect an orange wristband.

- Could we kindly ask that you arrive promptly for the start of each of your sessions. All sessions run on the hour every hour. As you will appreciate the day runs to very tight deadlines in order to provide opportunities for all. When a session is completed, please collect your belongings (and children!) and vacate the workshop space as quickly as you are able in order for the Artists and Music Facilitators to prepare for the next group.

- We are keen to know your thoughts on the day. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to win a soundLINCS First Notes Resource Pack by returning your Feedback form on page 9. Stickers are also available at each workshop for the children to place on laminated signs to let us know what they thought about the activities.

Your certificate of participation for these active learning sessions can be found on the back cover of the programme. These training sessions are part of EMEYN – East Midlands Early Years Network programme which is heavily subsidised by the National Foundation for Youth Music with additional support from the Nottinghamshire County Council Arts Service plus Lincolnshire, Leicester-shire, Derby-shire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Music Education Hubs.

- East Midlands Early Years Network provides Early Years professionals the opportunity to engage in discussions about new initiatives and practical approaches to Early Years Music; CPD/Training opportunities and how Early Years fits into the Early Years Curriculum.

If you would like to know more about any other training opportunities please sign up to soundEMission, our free monthly e-bulletin, packed with a wealth of information from across the region. soundEMission provides information and links to relevant services, work, development and a host of other items of interest. is the leading UK children's charity using music to transform the lives of disadvantaged young people. Every year the National Foundation for Youth Music funded programmes provides more than 90,000 young people with the opportunity to make music, helping them to overcome the challenges they face in their lives.

We hope you and your groups enjoy the music and arts workshops, and through participation learn something new and discover how the arts can deliver the EYFS in a fun way and that you leave the park inspired and realising that…‘I could do that… with my children!'

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Please be aware that we are expecting around 800 people in the park today. The Ranger team on site can provide first aid and assistance but we ask that you ensure you have a registered first aider in your party and please have a small first aid kit with you.

Please keep your belongings securely with you at all times. Please note there will not be room for buggies/pushchairs in the activity spaces.

Unfortunately we cannot guarantee sunshine on the day, so please make the necessary preparations for the eventuality of wet weather conditions. Equally think about sun cream if it’s hot!

Light snacks and drinks are on sale at the nearby Coach House CafĂŠ, however, due to the large number of visitors, we advise all participants to bring a packed lunch. A gift shop and craft shop can be found in the Rufford Abbey.

We do have official photographers and a film team at the event so please make sure to hand in your signed photo permission forms when you collect your registration pack. Anyone who cannot be photographed will be given an orange wristband – these will be distributed to setting representatives on registration.

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1 Led by Helen Knight You will learn how to build a wealth of musical activities which can be drawn on easily and which will ease the planning of music sessions, giving you more time to spend making music with your children.

Helen has been a Music Facilitator and Workshop Leader for soundLINCS since January 2003. She’s experienced in Early Years work and has run many soundLINCS Early Years sessions and enriched the lives of hundreds of local children, parents and carers by incorporating music, dance, and music games into their every day activities.

2 Led by Jessica Kemp Jess plans to use her vast experience of experimental mixed media arts in this workshop - you will have fun sprinkling glitter into dough blobs and gloop mixtures, as well as working with paper and lots of other bright and shiny stuff.

Jessica has been a Community Artist for many years encouraging people of all ages and abilities to be creative in a variety of ways. She works mainly in silks and mixed media, taking inspiration from the natural world, the food and flowers on her allotment and the wildlife that lives there.

3 Led by Georgina Bell Enjoy making and creating a town from boxes; time for lots of creative play with buildings, roads, parks, gardens and ponds - all the action takes place on large sheets of card on the floor.

Georgina Bell is a practicing Artist and Maker. With over ten years experience as a lecturer in Art & Design and fifteen as an artist, she has a commitment and passion for making things and sharing techniques and processes. Georgina regularly exhibits her work and attends contemporary craft fairs in the UK and abroad.

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4 Led by Sandy Bywater Clay is a brilliant, stimulating and tactile medium that early years children can really enjoy playing with. You will create textures and patterns in clay tiles and we will fire them later in a professional kiln.

Sandy is a Ceramic Artist working in porcelain for its whiteness and translucency. She loves working in clay as it’s an extremely versatile material and can be shaped into almost anything.

Sandy’s practice also includes teaching and running workshops and she works in a variety of settings, with people of all ages and abilities, sharing her passion and enthusiasm for the arts for its creative and therapeutic benefits.

5 Led by Andy Mason Andy has curated many exhibitions with and for young people - he hopes his workshop will encourage you to view a visit to a gallery as a fun learning experience for young children.

Andy has run his own studio since 1986, consequently gaining much valuable practical, and associated professional, experience. He likes to use rich, colourful glazes and still gets a thrill from pressing the button on his electric kiln controller.

6 Led by Eddy Mentzel Eddy will be using iPads to demonstrate a variety of tried and tested music apps for early year’s activities. This workshop will be a chance for you to explore and create music using the iPads, and gain advice from a music technology specialist.

Eddy Mentzel has been working as a Music Facilitator for the past 10 years. Specialising in music technology, he has worked with soundLINCS in a diverse range of settings and with groups from early years to adult. More recently Eddy has been delivering full class iPad workshops in primary schools across the county.

7 Led by Liz Lenten Basic Early Years Composition – learn how to change the words to simple songs you know well, in order to suit a situation or environment at that given moment. Learn how this can be used to manage behaviour, activity or emotions of a child.

Liz is a published Singer/Songwriter and Composer who has worked with early years groups for over 15 years. Working with soundLINCS, she has delivered music, vocal and composition workshops for children, practitioners, child-minders and families in all types of settings.

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8 Led by Cathy Royal Explore traditional tales and familiar stories as well as songs and rhymes that tell a story. The children will be encouraged to join in with hands, voices, home-made and conventional instruments to bring stories to life. You will also try to put together some of your own stories and use the sound effects to enhance your ideas.

Cathy, a soundLINCS Music Facilitator with over seven years of experience in music making activities with Early Years children, has worked in a range of settings from nursery schools to hospitals where she has music as a tool to help develop communication skills, self-confidence and other skills that can be used throughout later life.

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Led by Anna Roebuck A chance to experience sculptures first hand, use your imagination and creativity and enjoy your own engaging arty adventure.

Anna trained in Fine Art Tapestry in the 90’s, this was where her fascination with reusing and recycling began. She created installation based artwork using all sorts of mediums to explore the interaction between man and nature. Anna is a trained Teacher and has worked in lots of formal and informal educational settings.

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Led by Heather Benson This session will include exploring sounds and textures in the environment and how music can be created using objects around us, whether it be the scrunch of gravel, the tapping of trees, there are sounds everywhere for us to explore.

Please come prepared for the weather in this outdoor music making workshop.

Heather has been working with soundLINCS and creating music with the Early Years for the past five years. She has run workshops in children’s centres, schools, nurseries, village halls, community centres and various outdoor events.

Heather has also been involved in soundLINCS’ Root Notes programme providing advice to Early Years settings on how music can become an integral part of their day.

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The Whale is an utterly unique, visually stunning aluminium structure on wheels. Audiences enter through the Whale’s opening mouth one at a time or in small family groups to experience a witty and charming three minute theatre show, performed by a solo actor, just for them. Brought to you by Talking Birds.

Shaggy dog stories is an artwork in three parts: Part 1 (currently taking place): Tom will make and take silicone rubber sculptural dogs for walks in wheelbarrows. He will talk to people and collect stories from dog walkers and others in the park.

Part 2: Exhibitions of the dog in wheelbarrow sculpture forms.

Part 3: A free artist made tabloid newspaper, ‘Shaggy Dog Stories’ will be posted online.

To follow the progress of the art work please visit: http://shaggydogartproject.tomhackett.org/

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Free Prize Draw!

Win 1 of 5 soundLINCS’ First Notes Resource Packs by completing, tearing off this feedback sheet and handing it to the Information & Registration Stand.

Name: ___________________________

Email: _________________________________

We are keen to hear from you with regard to your experience of the day.

1. “Could You Do That?”

YES / NO

2. Have you been inspired by today?

YES / NO

3. What could you do more of now?

Create a musical game

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The Big Draw box town

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Write and sing a song

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Sensory sculpture trail adventures

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Create sound stories

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Sprinkly Art - new ways with the glitter pot

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Play music without instruments

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Gallery fun without fear

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Know about & use Early Years Apps

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Play with clay

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4. What didn’t work well for you?

5. Could we have improved today? If ‘Yes’, what could we have done better

6. Should we do this again?

YES / NO

Would you pay?

7. Any general comments, or room to expand any YES / NO responses

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YES / NO

The soundLINCS First Notes Resource Packs offer a complete guide to creative and constructive music sessions with young children. The packs relate directly to the Early Years Foundation Stage and are supplied in a robust, self-contained wallet, complete with a supporting CD and are available exclusively from soundLINCS.

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Attended and Participated in

Early Years Arts in the Park ‘I Could Do That!’

Friday 4th July 2014 Rufford Abbey Country Park

Signed ___________ Nikki-Kate Heyes MBE soundLINCS CEO

Dated 4th July 2014

Signed ___________ Dated 4th July 2014 Sue Cullen Head of Arts Service Nottinghamshire County Council

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