Blaenycwm Primary School are looking for a creative animation team working as Creative Practitioners for the Spring term 2019

Blaenycwm Primary School is a successful, vibrant and happy school, which offers excellent learning opportunities for all of our children. We envisage an exciting visual arts project, working with the pupils and the teachers of our keystage 2, years 5 and 6 team.  The concept is for an animation project, building creative storytelling skills with the pupils, making short animations which can then be shared potentially as short film sessions with the other pupils, other teachers.   The focus of this project will be on creativity, digital competency wellbeing and literacy. 

Roles and Responsibilities

In this exciting role, the successful candidates will work closely with children and teachers to help realise the ultimate goal of the project: to provide fun and engaging opportunities for the children to explore and develop their creative skills.  

The teachers involved would like to undertake specific training in animation before the project starts to be able to be fully involved in the activities.

 Next Steps

If you are interested and have the skill set to meet the requirements of this creative role, you can apply by sending:

A covering letter:

With a brief initial description of your ideas as to how you might approach this project working with the pupils and the teachers. 

Please email this together with your CV and up to 8 photo attachments each no larger than 1mb or your website URL if available.

The names of 2 Referees to

email sarah.bryant@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk and  to  Lynette Margerison Creative Agent  email walklikecat@gmail.com

If you have any questions, please fell welcome to telephone Lynette Margerison Creative Agent on 07951315821

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sarah Oliver-Bryant  School-Co-ordinator

Lynette Margerison   Creative Agent

 The successful candidates will:

Have experience of working in a school setting, and be able to guide staff and students through the exploration and process of devising and realisation of the project.  The artists will be

• Creative, dynamic and flexible
• Work well with children
• Proficient in using animation and multimedia, i.e. potentially puppetry, model making, drawing/painting etc.
• Able to work as part of team to achieve the goals of the project.
• Be able to encourage the pupils own creativity
• Feedback and evaluate with pupils and teachers throughout and at the end of the project.

Timeline:

Deadline for applications October 8^th 2018

Interviews Monday 15^th 2018

Creative Practitioner Training November 26/27 (Newport)

Planning Autumn Term 2018

Delivery Spring term 2019

Evaluation early summer term 2019

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