Arts Education Team
Details
The strategic focus is to challenge, develop, enhance, advise and monitor the way that, arts, heritage and cultural activities that take place in Aberdeen City's schools.- Linking the best in arts, heritage and culture to education in City schools
- Co-ordinating the interface between policy and practice
- Making strategic links both locally and nationally
- Successfully attracting funds for arts & heritage projects in all City schools
Background - The Arts Education Team
The Scottish Arts Council in 1996 established a fund to place Arts Education Co-ordinators (sometimes called Creative Links Officers) at Advisor level in local authority education departments. The sole job purpose was to strategically develop and implement achievable and sustainable arts education in schools. This was to be achieved by creating links between education and arts, heritage & culture in order to enhance and extend all areas of the curriculum. Aberdeen City Council was the first local authority to recognise its worth and establish such a post (2000), and is currently recognised nationally as being at the forefront of arts education evolution.The Scottish Executive, as part of the National Cultural Strategy, initiated the Cultural Co-ordinators in Scottish Schools (CCiSS) Pilot Programme in March 2002. The aim of the pilot was to identify ways of maximising the contribution of arts and culture to children and young people’s education, and to maximise the creative potential in schools in a strategic fashion. The first phase (2 years) of the programme has demonstrated that arts education and the cultural dimension of school education can be a powerful context for learning across subjects and issues. Funding is now secure to extend the pilot until the end of 2009. Aberdeen City Council appointed 3 full time, discipline based cultural co-ordinators from teaching and arts backgrounds.
The Arts Education Team's service:
- is solely focused on school education
- is exclusively for children of school age (3-18years)
- is for pupils as part of the school day
- supports and enhances the curriculum (Curriculum Framework for Children 3 to 5, 5-14, Standard Grade, Higher & Higher Still, Extended 5-14 curriculum, Curriculum for Excellence)
- supports and organises CPD and other school staff development opportunities
- supports and enhances the work of Curriculum Development Officers
- forms partnerships with schools to seek funding for artist residencies for schools (100% success rate)
- designs, enables and monitors a range of school based projects which enhance learning in many curricular areas beyond the expressive arts
- advises teachers on creativity in education
If you wish to contact a member of the Arts Education Team, see the Contacts section below.
NB The Arts Education Team co- ordinates provision and does not deliver provision in school
Contact(s)
- Annette Murray
Arts Education Co-ordinator
Phone: 01224 346029
Email: anmurray@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Summerhill Education Centre
Stronsay Drive
Aberdeen - Louise Baxter
Cultural Co-ordinator (visual arts, film & literature)
Phone: 01224 346360
Email: lbaxter@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Summerhill Education Centre
Stronsay Drive
Aberdeen - Linda Lees-Hislop
Cultural Co-ordinator (music, dance & performance)
Phone: 01224 346358
Email: lleeshislop@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Summerhill Education Centre
Stronsay Drive
Aberdeen
- Heather Evans
Arts Education Projects Assistant
Phone: 01224 346361
Email: hevans@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Summerhill Education Centre
Stronsay Drive
Aberdeen
