Crawshaw Academy

Welcome to Crawshaw Academy. Here, we’re bringing together colleagues from Art/Photography, Drama, English and Music, alongside Teaching Assistants. Although we’re spread across venues, this is still very much one Red Kite Day, a chance to connect, collaborate and learn together through a programme of subject and role-specific sessions.

Red Kite Day 8 Programme at Crawshaw Academy

Time Session
08:30-09:10 Registration and refreshments
09:15-10:00

Keynote - Sanjay Bhandari, Chair of Kick it Out

'Reasons to be Cheerful'

Why, in Education, not only do we have reasons to be optimistic but that optimism is an essential ingredient to leading change. It's an obligation.

10:00-10:10 Comfort Break
10:10-11:00

Keynote - Nick Barley, Director, National Poetry Centre, Leeds

11:00-11:30 Break with refreshments
11:30-12:30

Subject/Workshop 1 - please see the drop down boxes below for more information about these subjects.

Art/Photography

Drama

Music
English

TAs

12:30-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:30 Subject/Workshop Session 2 with reflection time in school teams
14:30-14:45 Plenary

Live Keynote Speaker

Further Session Information

Art/Photography

Inclusivity and wellbeing through the curriculum

Session 1

GCSE carousel – Staff from each school to bring examples of how they currently teach the GCSE Art curriculum

Session 2

Staff to work in department groups to discuss and plan how this could be implemented/ altered in their current curriculum.

 

Drama

Creative approaches to delivering script workshops

Offering alternative ways to deliver script work. These can be used and adapted for all key stages.

English

Why does hope matter?

Group discussions: what are the challenges in English; what is there to be hopeful about; how do we encourage students with additional challenges to feel hopeful; how can we use literature to build hope?
 
Video featuring disadvantaged students discussing challenges they've experienced in English
Unseen poetry [Mary Oliver 'The summer Day', Henley's 'Invictus']
• Ways in to unseen poems
• Grammar in context
• Poetry as a stimulus for talk
• Poetry as a stimulus for creative writing

Music

Session details to follow.

Teaching Assistants

A number of workshops with a Speech and Language theme. Session details to follow.

Arrival and Parking Information

Colleagues can follow the main drive and follow the road to the left and signs for the Theatre for parking. Alternatively follow the road around to the right and park at the back of the sports hall. Colleagues will then need to make their way to the main reception at the front of school if parking at the rear.

Please wear your school lanyard.

Photography and Videography

Photography and videography will take place at this event for Red Kite marketing purposes, including (but not limited to) use on our website and social media channels. Attendance constitutes your consent to be included; however, if you prefer not to be identifiable in images, you may opt out by wearing a yellow lanyard. We will make reasonable efforts to respect this, but please be aware that it may not be possible to exclude individuals from large group or crowd shots.