Opportunity for New Media Practitioner/Film Maker

Manor High Foundation

Friar Park Road

Friar Park

Wednesbury

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We have recently become a Creative Partnerships Enquiry School, and as part of that we are looking for a New Media and/or Film  practitioner to work with a group of approximately 30 year 7/8 pupils who have mixed record of attending and engaging with school.

Our enquiry questions is:

Can we through working with New Media develop an approach that will re-engage more pupils with learning in school?

We are looking for an inspirational and dedicated practitioner who will help us develop the project in a student-led approach. We are hoping to learn strategies for our teaching and learning in how to engage all our students better. We are hoping to learn from the project how we can make working with new media and student voice sustainable in the long-term for the school.

Most of the contact time will be in the autumn term currently planned about half day a week for seven weeks before the autumn half-term, with some initial planning sessions with students and staff in the summer term.

We are also hoping to have a project launch in the autumn term.

We have left the brief deliberately open, so the practitioner can form the project with the student group and staff.

The project budget is up to £2,500 for practitioner fee (includes travel) with a an additional small budget for materials and the launch.

Selection and application:

We are looking for an exceptional creative practitioner who has:

-  An enhanced CRB disclosure (less than two years old)

- You will need public Liability up to 5million

-  An understanding of or an interest in how young people learn

-  A commitment to genuine collaboration

-  An ability to reflect and communicate

-  A willingness to learn and share skills

If you are interested please send us:

- A short statement, explaining why you want to work with us (no more than one page), please state clearly any technical requirements you will have.

-CV (no more than two pages)

- Two references

- Date of your CRB check

-a link to examples work

If you want to post a DVD please send to:

Gareth Kibby at Manor High Foundation, Friar Park Road, Friar Park, Wednesbury

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Please send all documents in the old word format or PDF, no docx please.

Selection: For the interview we will ask you to prepare a 30min activity to demonstrate your approach to collaborative working, this will be followed by questions from students & staff. We will pay an interview reimbursement fee of £50 to the unsuccessful candidates.

Deadline:  9. June 2010 at  5pm

Interview date: 18.6. 2010    9-1pm

If you cannot attend the interview date please get in touch.

All applications to be emailed to Iris Bertz, Creative Agent: ibertz@gmail.com

The project is part of Enquiry School project supported by Creative Partnerships www.creative-partnerships.com 

 and Black Country Creative Partnerships www.blackcountrycreativepartnerships.co.uk