Making the Case for the Arts - Opportunity and Experience

A CapeUK film making the case for using the arts and creativity in education to boost children's learning. This film shows how staff and pupils at Barugh Green Primary School have used the arts across the curriculum.

Commissioned by CapeUK (IVE) 2015 (1 of 3)

CAER HEDZ

In July 2015 pupils from Glyn Derw High School and Michaelston Community College spent a day on a live archaeological dig. Working with CAER Heritage Project lead artist Paul Evans and filmmaker Jon Harrison, they made their own 'celtic heads' from clay then brought them to life in a pop-up animation studio.

This Caer Heritage Project production for the Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities Festival 2015 won the Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community trophy at the 2017 Times Higher Education Awards.

A film by Jon Harrison and Paul Evans 2015

Scrapstore (Educational workshop film)

Children reflect on the Scrapstore scheme and it's impact on their learning and play. This is one of over 30 films made by year six pupils during the 'Malin Bridge Mash-up' a 3 month workshop residency with Malin Bridge Primary School. The project was led by Lovebytes, a Sheffield based digital arts organisation and Dr Becky Parry, a researcher from the University of Leeds. Funded by First Light the project was developed with the Institute of Education with the aim of researching children’s film production practices at home and at school.

June 2013 Malin Bridge Primary School, Sheffield

Den Making in Greno Woods

Greno Woods is a site of ancient woodland recorded as far back as the Middle Ages. It's own by Sheffield Wildlife Trust. Greno Woods is a large and beautiful reserve covering 178 hectares, next to the residential areas of Grenoside, Ecclesfield and Chapeltown. There is evidence that Greno Woods existed as early as 1600AD and has played a critical role in the local economy ever since. Here students from the University of Sheffield's School of Architecture help with the sustainable conservation and management of Greno Woods so it can continue to play an important role in the well-being of local wildlife and local residents.

2014 for Sheffield Wildlife Trust

Eileen Adams: Agent of Change

NAEA Gallery (26 Sep–15 Dec 2015)

This exhibition showed how revolutionary initiatives have prompted change in art, design and environmental education, taking art out of the gallery into school grounds and onto the street.

Recorded 27 October 2015 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Art Educated 2

The National Arts Education Archive was established in 1985 to provide a documentary trace of the development of arts education in the UK and worldwide, by collecting children’s and students' work and the papers, letters and work of key educators and artists in the visual arts, music and language. YSP has managed the Archive since 2009. This material, comprising more than 100 catalogued collections, is based in the purpose-built Lawrence Batley Centre on the former Bretton Hall College campus and is available to researchers, lecturers and the general public by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays each week.

Recorded 14 May 2016 at NAEA (National Arts Education Archive)

Herbert Read & Alec Clegg: A Revolution Realised

NAEA Gallery (31 Jan–29 Mar 2015)

Two of the most influential educators of the 20th century - Herbert Read, English anarchist, poet, literary critic and co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Sir Alec Clegg, Chief Education officer for the West Riding of Yorkshire (1945–1974).

Recorded 25 March 2015 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park