Posted 6th August 2010

Lambeth CLC have now relocated back to our newly refubished centre in Clapham Old Town.

Our new contact details can be found here

http://www.lambethclc.org.uk/contact-us.html

Details of our new location can be found here

http://www.lambethclc.org.uk/find-us.html

Posted 23rd June 2010

Funding opportunity
London Schools apply now to ‘Olympic-themed’ Creative Partnerships Enquiry School Programme 2010/11  (Application deadline is 19 July 2010.)

The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are fast approaching, providing a rich source of inspiration for creative teaching and learning. So for the 2010/11 academic year, the Creative Partnerships Enquiry Schools Programme will follow an Olympic-theme. This is a one year programme for 150 London schools and Children's Centres.  For the first time the programme will be available to schools in every borough in London.    

For more information about the programme, and to apply - download the application documents from www.anewdirection.org.uk/esapplication

Please follow the link above for further information and an application form. However, if you require help with your application we are happy to support Lambeth schools through the application process. Please contact the Lambeth CLC Arts Team at arts@lambethclc.org.uk

Posted 17th June 2010

Teachers-Go-Free evening at Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Thursday 24 June, 6.00 pm                                                                                                                                   

Southbank Centre are hosting a Teachers-Go-Free evening at the Hayward Gallery to see their summer exhibitions – The New Décor : 50 Years and Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World

The New Décor brings together sculptures and installations from more than 30 contemporary artists, including some of today's leading sculptors. In the exhibition, the artists use interior design to explore changes in contemporary culture. By reinventing objects we take for granted in our everyday lives, they force us to look at our surroundings in a new light.

This summer, renowned Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto is transforming the Hayward Gallery with a series of spectacular installations. Neto is known for his immersive artworks, often made from stretched lycra, which give the impression of being inside a body. Spices, plastic balls and cushions are used to provide different textures and scents. Neto’s exhibition includes a pool installation on the roof, teachers are welcome to bring a swimming costume and towel – changing room facilities are available but numbers in the pool are limited to 20 people per session.

The Teachers-Go-Free evening also includes an exclusive exhibition tour by Brazilian artist Eduardo Padilha at 6.30pm.

This is an private opening – only for teachers so it is essential that you book in advance. To book:
Two tickets per teacher allowed. Telephone booking only. To book Tel: 0844 875 0070
Booking office open Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5.30pm Limited availability

Posted 15th June 2010

Lambeth CLC’s brochure for 2010 – 2011 is now available.  The publication includes details of all CLC activity across the three areas of ICT and technology, arts and culture and family learning.
Download the brochure below or email info@lambethclc.org.uk to receive a hard copy.

Download the brochure here:
Lambeth CLC programme for 2010 - 2011

Posted 3rd June 2010

Students from London Nautical and Lambeth Academy will have their films screened at the Cinematheque Francaise http://www.cinematheque.fr/ in Paris this week. The 2 groups of students have worked on long term CLC film making projects as part of a Pan European competition. They will be joining other young people from Spain, Portugal, Italy and France to share their films which explore the question ‘ Why move the camera?’.

Posted 11th May 2010

Lambeth pupils with their robots

On Saturday 27 March 10 Lambeth schools took part in the 3rd IBM Robo-Challenge at IBM Southbank. The Robo-Challenge is delivered by IBM in partnership with Lambeth City  Learning Centre and Clapham Youth Centre

The Challenge comprised of five pre-prepared challenges and a final  unseen challenge: Strictly Robo Dancing, Best Dressed Robot, Robo-Race,  Recycled Robots (constructing a robot out of recycled materials),  Programming Under Pressure and Team Presentations.

Teams were allocated points for each Challenge and for overall teamwork  demonstrated throughout the day. The judging panel included  the Chief  Executive of STEMNET, London Borough of Lambeth, FilmClub and Chris  Stanton aka 'Mr. Flatley' from CBBC’s M.I. High.  

Sarah Horrocks, Director, Lambeth City Learning Centre said: "This  collaboration between Lambeth City Learning Centre, Clapham Youth Centre  and IBM is exactly the kind of real world education that motivates and  inspires young people in their learning.The project has supported  pupils in developing high level programming, communication and technical skills working alongside professionals and specialists from all three organisations. This is a great example of a Global company working at local level with partner organisations who share the collective goal of raising the aspirations of young people in our borough."

Mark Wakefield, IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager said: "Not only is this a fun and educational event, the children  participating gain invaluable skills which will enable them to  contribute to their communities, to understand the role that technology is playing in their lives and to help them understand more about how technology helps to make the world work better. This year the IBM
Robo-Challenge brought together approximately 70 Lambeth pupils who took  part in a series of complex and demanding robot programming challenges".

Pupils said, "Robo challenge is the best thing for children to learn"."Thank you for this occasion this is the best Saturday ever." "It was the best experience of my life so far and I'd love to come again!"

Read the article featured in the Streatham Guardian newspaper

http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/archive/2010/05/03/news_streatham/ 8130792.Lambeth_youngsters_have_fun_with_robots/

 

Posted 6th May 2010

See below for information on forthcoming arts CPD opportunities from our cultural partners.

For booking please contact the organisation direct by clicking the links and following booking procedure

Tate Modern

Art in Language

http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/teachers/modern/18416.htm

Thursday 20 May 2010, 10.30–16.00
£95 (includes tea, coffee and lunch)

Combining practical and theoretical techniques, this course considers how art can be used to stimulate creative and critical thinking, observation and descriptive skills. It explores ways in which to encourage pupils to untangle metaphor and meaning for themselves.
This course offers:
• Both examples of artists who use text and the spoken word and suggestions for using language as a tool to unpick meaning in other art forms
• Creative methods for developing students’ confidence in their communication skills
• Practical activities that promote the use of text as a visual language.

Unicorn

CPD workshop: The Tempest for Key Stage 2 and 3

http://www.unicorntheatre.com/page.php?id=76

Monday 17 May 2010, 10.00am - 3.30pm
Cost £75 (including a light lunch)

An exciting opportunity to get more out of your work on The Tempest. This practical session will equip you to use drama and creative teaching strategies in your exploration of the play, using our online teacher resources http://www.unicorntheatre.com/for_schools/resources as a basis.

CPD workshop: Directing a play

http://www.unicorntheatre.com/page.php?id=76

Friday 11 June 2010, 1.30pm - 4.00pm
Cost £40

Ever fancied trying your hand at directing? This session develops the teacher as director and gives you the practical tools to stage a production in your school.

Posted 23rd April 2010

Year 6 pupils from Sudbourne Primary School visited us this week for a workshop entitled 'Game On'. View their work at http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/80044

Posted 22nd April 2010

Latest Termly Arts Newsletter now available to download from CLC website www.lambethclc.org.uk/arts

This edition includes information on highlights on what to expect from Lambeth CLC’s 2010 – 2011 arts programme, funding available for the next round of Creative Partnership Enquiry Programme (Olympic related), as well as free and inexpensive tickets and activities on offer from local arts organisations.

Posted 111th March 2010

Evelyn Grace Academy, Dunraven School and Lilian Baylis Technology School have worked with Lambeth CLC to create broadcasts for BBC News School Report on March 11th 2010.

Watch the students' reports on subjects including dangerous dogs, sustainability, the Haiti earthquake, cyberbullying, the recession and a new Brixton school designed by Zaha Hadid.

View the films here

Dunraven School
Evelyn Grace Academy
Lilian Baylis Technology School

Posted 19th February 2010

In September 2009, 11 schools from 4 London LAs including 3 from Lambeth were specially selected to work in partnership with their local literacy consultants, Pie Corbett and the National Gallery.

5 teachers from Archbishop Sumner CE , Bonneville and Crown Lane Primary took part in a series of CPD at the National Gallery with sessions led by Pie Corbett (educationalist and author), Susanna Steele (drama specialist) and practitioners from the National Gallery including Ali Mawle their Head of Schools.

Lambeth CLC has worked in partnership withthe  Lambeth Primary Strategy team to support this project.  The final phase involves all schools working alongside CLC tutors to create a piece either a film, animation or digital artwork for possible display in the National Gallery.

The project  focused on using paintings as a stiumuls on pupils’ storytelling skills but the results have impacted more broadly across the whole curriculum;

“I’ve loved being part of the project and have learnt so much, and I hope my class have too! The animation looks brilliant so far - the animators are back in today...and
the children are really enjoying the animation work. We can't wait to see the finished thing.”
Ruth Grimwood, Crown Lane Primary.

An exhibition is planned at the National Gallery for this project and another ‘Enriching the context of writing through drama and art’ for Autumn 2010.

For more information please contact Hannah Quigley, Arts Project Manager, Lambeth CLC hquigley@lambethclc.org.uk .

Posted 12th February 2010

Tempest Illustration

Unicorn invites you to find out more:
FREE Teachers’ Open Evening at the Unicorn Theatre
Thursday 11 March 2010, 4.45pm – 6.30pm

Join the Unicorn Theatre and find out more about London’s only purpose-built children’s theatre. Meet the Artistic and Educational teams, get a sneak preview of our ensemble of actors in some rehearsed readings of our May production The Tempest, and pick up some tips on how to engage your students with Shakespeare through workshop activities and resources around the show. All of this over a drink and for free! Each teacher attending the event will receive 2 free tickets to a Unicorn production, subject to availability.

To book, please call the Unicorn Theatre box office on 020 7645 0560. You are welcome to invite colleagues and come as a group.

For more information about the Unicorn Theatre please go to their website www.unicorntheatre.com

 

Posted 10th February 2010

Laptop Library Courses
Family Laptop Library courses are running in 5 schools this term both primary and secondary. See the film on the Family Learning pages to get a look at the course in action. 

Dad’s Family Photography
This term we are running a series of courses in Children’s Centres for dads and male carers and their children. Families will have the opportunity to work with a photographer where they will learn camera skills and develop a topic. These projects will culminate in an exhibition of photographs and books produced by the families.

Posted 1st February 2010

http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/new-primary-curriculum/

This week sees the launch of the National Curriculum website, which now includes the new primary curriculum and a range of tools and information to support it, including:

• an interactive video tour of the site's highlights
• a short introductory guide to the new primary curriculum
• a tool to help teachers design and plan their own curriculum
• an interactive tool which allows teachers to view selected curriculum areas side-by-side
• new case studies which show how schools have used their curriculum to make real improvements in outcomes for their learners

The website is a big step forward in making the new primary curriculum come to life for headteachers and the school workforce, and makes the curriculum easily accessible for all. Schools and teachers now have the information and support to start planning for the introduction of this new curriculum.

 

Posted 12th January 2010

Help low income families in your school to get access to a computer and the internet to get on line at home. Low income families in receipt of certain benefits can qualify for a grant to buy a computer and/or a minimum of one years’ internet access. This government programme is aimed at those that need it most and targets families that do not have access to a computer or the internet at home. Schools should promote the scheme and support families in applying. Act fast as the grants are limited. See information on how families apply at http://www.homeaccess.org.uk/

DCSF detail of yesterday’s Home Access announcement:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2010_0011

Watch the PM's speech at announcing the national rollout of Home Access programme yesterday:

http://www.number10.gov.uk/

Posted 8th January 2010

Lambeth CLC launches innovative  programme of work with Artist-in-Residence Duncan Chapman.

Experimental composer and sound artist Duncan Chapman will be working in partnership with Lambeth CLC on a number of creative digital music projects in Lambeth schools.

Our collaboration launches with Sounding It Out ; taking place across 6 primary school settings, pupils will be collecting and researching sounds from their immediate surroundings and  preserving ‘vanishing’ noises that represent the aural history of their school.  The resulting soundscapes will link and celebrate the past, present and future of sound in their local area.

Posted 16th December 2009

Season's Greetings from Lambeth CLC

Lambeth CLC would like to wish everyone in Lambeth, and further afield, a very happy Christmas and all the best for 2010.

Posted 16th December 2009

Lambeth Primary Schools' Arts Conference flyer

Lambeth Primary Schools’ Arts Conference – places still available
Friday 5 February, 9.30am – 4pm at the Royal Festival Hall, Booking essential
This whole day conference on the South Bank is designed to support and inspire arts co-ordinators and primary staff to develop arts provision in their schools.  Join colleagues from both education and the arts sectors to learn, share, debate and network.
Discussion: how the arts can inspire learning across the curriculum in light of the Rose Review.
Participation: practical workshops in drama, media and visual arts with ideas to bring back to the classroom.
Information: discover how your school can engage with arts organisations across Lambeth and the South Bank Cultural Quarter.

To book your place, contact Lambeth CLC on 020 7401 2345 or email info@lambethclc.org.uk with reference AC01 and your name, school and contact details.

Posted 11th December 2009

Pupils present their robots at this year's challenge

Lambeth CLC is working in partnership with IBM and Clapham Youth Centre on the 3rd IBM Lego Robo Challenge.

10 Lambeth Primary schools are taking part , with pupils learning to programme Lego NXT Robots supported by CLC staff and volunteers from  IBM.

Participating schools, represented by a team of pupil-technicians, will each design and programme a Lego NXT robot for a series of challenges. A final competition against other schools will be hosted by IBM on 27 March 2010.

This year’s project got off to a great start last week when 20 teachers and IBM volunteers spent the evening getting to grips with programming their robots.

Next on the agenda is a screening of Wall E at the Ritzy Cinema in January and a half term Robo Camp at Clapham Youth Centre in February.

Posted 3rd December 2009

Sue Berelowitz, deputy Children’s Commissioner

Sue Berelowitz, the deputy Children’s Commissioner attended the premiere screening of the film Restorative Approaches in Schools at BFI Southbank on 2 December. The film was developed by Lambeth City Learning Centre, the Lambeth CYPS Restorative Approaches Co-ordinator and St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls. Students dramatised real life events and interviewed pupils, teachers and the headteacher about how the restorative approach is used in the school. They, filmed and edited the film working with CLC film maker Sam Lawlor.

Sue Berleowitz said,  ‘It’s such a convincing film, you could take it anywhere and I hope it does go round the country because there are very important lessons here for everyone’. Sue quoted a student from the film, ‘’‘It’s a chance to speak and a chance to put things right’- I thought that summed it up magnificently’.

Posted 3rd December 2009

Arts Award Showcase

Lambeth CLC featured on the Arts Award London website. The news item highlights the 6 schools who participated in the pioneering 2009 Lambeth CLC Arts Award Primary Pilot, and includes links to 2 films documenting the experiences of pupils and teachers involved.  The project enabled 81 year 6 pupils to gain their Arts Award Bronze Award, as well as many of the pupils learning skills in evidencing their participation using digital portfolios. 

Lambeth CLC will be running training again on 21 January 2010.  Lambeth Primary schools wishing to apply for a place or wanting to find out more should contact Hannah Quigley at arts@lambethclc.org.uk

http://www.artsaward.org.uk/site/?id=1382&action=preview&backTo=index

Posted 25th November 2009

Wednesday 2nd December
10.30am to 12.30pm
NFT 2 at British Film Institute, Southbank.

 

Students from St Martin’s- in-the-Field’s High School for Girls worked with a CLC film maker and the Lambeth Restorative Approaches Co-ordinator to explore how restorative approaches are successful in supporting pupils and staff in conflict.  The content of the film was led by the students. The film uses role-play based on real life scenarios and interviews with those involved in the process to show the value of restorative justice in schools.

There will be a short introduction by the director and a Q & A session with the cast following the screening.

We still have places available for this screening. For more information please contact Kim Morrison either
on 0207 401 2345 or e-mail kmorrison@lambethclc.org.uk

Posted 19th October 2009

Due to popular demand, the Nintendo DS sets and maths games loan sets (TL03) are now fully booked for the academic year 2009-2010.

Posted 6th October 2009

Due to popular demand, the following Technology projects are now fully booked for the academic year 2009-2010.

Black History Month - TP01
Sounding IT Out - TP02
Animation Festival - TP03

Posted 10th September 2009

The following Arts courses are now fully booked.

Tate Local - AP02
Hands-On-Design - AP03

Posted 11th August 2009

Half day sessions

Join the borough's network meetings and find out more about Family Learning in Lambeth

Wednesday 30 September 2009
Wednesday 3 February 2010
Wednesday 9 June 2010

A meeting open to all staff working in the area of family learning or who want to know more. The meetings offer support, guidance, training and the opportunity to share resources and ideas. Please email Suki Coe scoe@lambethclc.org.uk for more information.

Posted 23rd July 2009

Lambeth City Learning Centre's programme for the next academic year is now available for download. Highlights across the three programmes include Games Design sessions for primary pupils, a music technology programme for both teachers and pupils, school residency opportunities with Tate Modern and support for schools wishing to develop family learning programmes. The CLC is also offering a comprehensive CPD programme in both the arts and technology.

Bookings open at the end of July. Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

Please note – Black History Month Film Festival (TP01) is now fully booked

Download the brochure here:
Lambeth CLC programme for 2009 - 2010

Posted 23rd July 2009

Lambeth CLC arts programme for 2009-2010 is now open for bookings. Highlights for this year include a year-long programme of projects and training with Tate Modern, CPD in dance, visual arts and drama; a pilot project with the Design Museum to explore new schemes of work in line with the primary review and opportunities for year 6 students to gain an arts accreditation. Book now. Places are limited.

For more information see the attached brochure and booking form.
Arts pages from brochure
Arts booking form

Posted 28th July 2009

The CLC technology programme for 2009 -2010 has been launched. Activities include games design for KS2, CPD for teachers and teaching assistants, podcasting for EYFS and support for schools working on the SRF towards ICT Mark. Bookings are open & places are limited. Please note Black History Month Film Festival is now full.

For more information see the attached brochure and booking form.
Technology pages from brochure
Technology booking form