Creative Practioner for Interior Design/Design

Arrow Vale Community School, Redditch, B98 0EN

We are a class of year 9 pupils working with our Art teacher on a project where we are exploring the following question:

“How can we improve our corridors & public areas to make them more friendly and representative of our school?”


For this project we are looking for a practitioner to work with us, we imagine that you might be an interior designer, architect, graphic designer, graffiti artist or visual artist. We want somebody to help us build an approach with which, we can convince people that we can affect change in the building. We also have agreement to change one area in the school-so this is a real project.
The most important thing for us is that you are passionate about your work and that you are prepared to work with us in a co-constructive and collaborative manner.

For this project we have identified one or two areas of the school that could be improved through simple but ambitious ideas. We will be running this project in our timetabled lessons on Thursdays and there will be some full days also in the project.
Please see planned timetable below.

Project Dates:
20.1, 27.1, 3.2, 10.2, 17.2, 3.3., 10.3, 17.3- half days morning
25.3. & 1.4. whole days






We are looking for a practitioner who
-is good with children
-enthusiastic
-takes us seriously
-is responsible
-understands & listens to us
-understands where we are coming from
-helps to put our ideas into professional reality
-lets us get involved
-lets us take credit
-engages us
-gives us ideas
-takes our ideas on board


Project Fee:
8 sessions @ £120 = £960
2 full days @ £220 = £440
1 day planning & review in school @ £220 = £220
1day planning at home @ £220 = £200

Total £1,820

A materials budget up to £ 600 will be available.
Please do not apply if you cannot attend on the majority dates above or interview date.

If you are interested please send us:

- A short statement, explaining why you want to work with us ( max.1 page)
- CV (no more than two pages)
- 6 small images
- Date of your last CRB check
- You will need public Liability up to 5million

Remember you are applying to the pupils, our Creative Agent is just supporting us with this project.

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

Deadline: 30 November 2010 at 5pm

Interview date: 9. December 2010 ( Morning)

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

For further information on: Arrow Vale High: http://www.arrowvale.worcs.sch.uk


This project is part of a Change School project supported by Creative Partnerships
www.creative-partnerships.com and Bright Space www.brightspace.org.uk