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SparkPlus
Presenting exceptional live performance in primary schools lies at the heart of the Spark Festival. We have developed a bank of experiential learning ideas and teaching strategies to enhance this experience.
Through teacher led interventions we can support pre-performance experiences that reverberate in the imagination – making a longer impact on learning and teaching.
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We want to work directly with children as cultural critics, programmers and ambassadors for the performing arts – a catalyst for future creative activity in the classroom. We do this by:
- Helping young people develop skills involved in watching a performance: interpreting, engaging, sympathising and responding
- Supporting teachers to draw upon multiple processes involved in unravelling layers between illusion and reality, decoding and engaging empathetically.
SparkPlus aims to gather evidence about approaches to using performing arts to:
- Impact on children’s development and learning and contribute to school improvement.
- Enhance enjoyment, developing knowledge and understanding of the performing arts.
- Develop staff knowledge, confidence and transferable skills in delivery of arts-based learning activities, with a whole school approach.
Through teacher led interventions we can support pre-performance experiences that reverberate in the imagination – making a longer impact on learning and teaching.
SparkPlus was piloted at The Spark Festival 2018 as a new way of working in schools, transforming how we deliver our annual festival, making a bigger impact on children’s lives and academic outcomes.
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Thank you to the following funders for supporting SparkPlus: The 29th May 1961 Charity, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Didymus CIO, Oakland Foundation, Scops Arts Trust.
