Network | Art Teachers and Leaders 2024-25
Join our fun, creative and informal Art Network. We aim to create a supportive and creative community where art teachers can connect, share ideas and collaborate with one another. Offering opportunities for ongoing professional development through practical workshops, webinars and guest speakers and sharing our resources.
Face to face twilight sessions will be held termly from 4pm to 5.30pm at Sandringham School. The network will be charged at £30 in advance for the year or £10 per session when joining part way through.
- Session 1: Monday, 7th October 2024
Whether you’re a seasoned Art teacher or just starting out, our network meeting is the perfect place to ignite your creativity, gain valuable insights, and find inspiration for your classroom.
The meeting focus will be sharing ideas of how we can raise the profile of Art in our schools. Discover fresh ideas and innovative approaches to engage your students and foster a love for Art.
Guest artist Daisy Smith will lead a collage based workshop and sharing her creative approach to collage which can be used at both primary and secondary level.
https://www.instagram.com/daisymay.smith/
- Session 2: Monday, 3rd February 2025
Join our friendly informal and creative group of art lovers who are passionate about creativity. Next session we will be creating a textiles piece with Sara Button a local painter and textile artist.
Don’t Miss Out!
Register Today and take the first step towards enriching your art teaching journey.
- Session 3: Monday, 30th June 2025
Session content will be made available each term
Who is this course for?
- Primary and secondary art teachers from ECT to HODs.
Meet the facilitator
Sarah Gidden, Sandringham School
Sarah is a fine artist specialising in oil painting and photography. Sarah has taught art to all ages from infants to University of the third age. With over 20 year teaching experience she is passionate about art and education. After becoming a mum to twins in 2011 Sarah enjoyed a career break to raise her family and develop her art skills further. She has exhibited in many galleries including The Collective Gallery , The Nude Tin Can and St Albans Museum as well as Courtyard Arts in Ware and The Broadway in Letchworth.
Liz Kelly, Director of Learning (Visual Arts and Arts Coordinator), Sandringham School
Network | Music Teacher 2024-25
Alban Education are delighted to continue their collaboration with Hertfordshire Music Service promoting this year’s network giving teachers of music a chance to get together to discuss current issues and changes in the music curriculum. This network is now fully funded by Hertfordshire Music Service.
There are two scheduled face to face sessions planned as follows:
Secondary Network 1 – Thursday, 17th October 2024 from 2.00pm to 3.30pm
The rhythm and notation workshop | Caz Wolfson
Mid Herts Centre for Music and Arts – Birchwood Avenue, Hatfield, AL10 0PS
Caz Wolfson is a percussionist, music educator and passionate advocate for inclusive music-making. She has been teaching music for over twenty years, across a wide range of sectors, engaging with participants aged 3 – 90. She has experience teaching individual and small group percussion lessons, delivering whole class and community workshops in samba drumming, South and West African drumming and dancing and Japanese Taiko drumming, has run school, community and County-level ensembles, and facilitating Creative Music Nurture Groups.
As a freelance percussionist, Caz has performed in major venues across the UK with ensembles and artists including Northern Sinfonia, the Karl Jenkins Festival Orchestra, comedian Bill Bailey and Blur’s bassist Alex Jones. She has been broadcast on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 and her playing has taken her to Europe, Africa, Australia and India.
She graduated with a First Class degree in percussion from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, followed by a Masters at the Guildhall School supported by the Leverhulme Trust and an MBF Music Education Award. After a period of freelance performing, teaching and workshop leading, Caz joined Hertfordshire Music Service in 2015 where she is the Whole Class & Community Music Development Lead for North Herts & Stevenage.
Secondary Network 2 – Wednesday, 5th February 2025 from 4.00pm to 5.30pm
Embedding creativity in composing in the KS3 curriculum | Sally Nicholson
Mid Herts Centre for Music and Arts – Birchwood Avenue, Hatfield, AL10 0PS
Sally Nicholson, Subject Lead for Music – Haileybury Turnford School
Sally Nicholson is currently subject lead for music at Haileybury Turnford School in Hertfordshire, where she has taught for 10 years. She serves on the board of Hertfordshire Music Education Forum and recently completed the Listen Imagine Compose master’s degree in music education with Birmingham City University and Sound and Music.
Who is this course for?
Teachers of Music, Primary and Secondary
MTPT Return to Work Workshops 2024-25
Colleagues returning from a period of maternity, adoption or shared parental leave this term can enjoy a fully-funded place on The MTPT Project’s Return to Work workshops. This 90 minute virtual workshop will inform you of your legal entitlements and the best practice you can expect from your school, as well as a powerful space to set boundaries and get your emotional and logistical ducks in a row before you go back.
NEXT SESSION: Monday 3rd February 2025, 09:30-11:00
DATES FOR 2024-25
Spring
Monday 3rd February 2025, 09:30-11:00
Thursday 27th March 2025, 09:30-11:00
Summer
Monday 12th May 2025, 09:30-11:00
Thursday 13th June 2025, 09:30-11:00
Tuesday 15th July 2025, 09:30-11:00
Fully-funded for all state school teachers in Hertfordshire thanks to Alban & Chiltern TSH
Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.
Book in a call with me: www.calendly.com/emmasheppard
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