The Carnival of the Animals and the Creative Curriculum

 

 

The Carnival of the Animals is aimed at engaging KS2 pupils. It aims to develop the role of partnerships between schools and the creative and cultural sector, demonstrating a commitment to:

• Creative and collaborative learning
• Cultural engagement
• Risk taking

The project aims at developing creative teaching practices in partnership with artists and professionals from a range of areas, fostering children’s abilities to think independently and flexibly

 

Proposed Partnerships:

Cumbria Primary schools and communities

Lancashire Primary schools

Lancashire Sinfonietta

South Lakes Wildlife Conservation Park

Danni Dee (Cantaloop): Hip Hop performance poet

Carlisle Museums and art galleries

Lancashire Music Service

Cumbria Music Service

Kuzari (West African musicians)

Staveley Carnival  (TBC)

Manchester Indian Classical Music Society and Vinata Godbole (South Indian dancer)

CLEO (Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online)

 

The Carnival of the Animals will build on new and established work by creative professionals in Cumbria and Lancashire.  Working with children and their teachers, they will encourage

 

• Different approaches to problem solving
• Experimentation and risk taking

 

Children in Cumbria and Lancashire schools will work independently and collaboratively devising solutions to challenges involving the study of animal behaviour across curriculum areas. They will draw on Saint Saens’ Carnival of the Animals as a stimulus. 

e.g.

·        Using ICT solutions to structure and orchestrate music to be performed by Lancashire Sinfonietta in local, regional and virtual concerts

·        Composing music to reflect ways animals move, using voices, music and ICT (with LA music services)

• Interpreting animal behaviour and movement through creative dance (with South Indian Dance practitioner
• Animation
• Designing habitats and spaces: Global dimension: conservation issues
• Designing carnival costumes and masks, and planning and organising a carnival procession within communities (with Carnival artists)
• Performance poems
• Planning and organising a virtual carnival across schools using videoconference technology (with RBC)

A DVD/CD Rom has been produced to provide a wealth of ideas and resources to support this project. It will be available from January 2008 at a cost of £85 but we would strongly recommend that you attend our one-day ‘Carnival of the Animals’ training courses at a cost of £150 where you will be provided with the DVD/CD Rom resource free of charge.

 

You can book a place on the course through the LSES site just click the link www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/lses

If you are unable to attend the one-day course but would like to purchase all the resources on DVD/CD Rom please download the order form.

For further information download the two word files and the pdf file.

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To order the 'Carnival of the Animals' Resource DVD/CD Rom, download the order form and send it into our admin office.