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CCI LEAP (LEarning through Art Practice)
Since the CCI’s official launch on 27 April 2010 at the Royal Festival Hall with Jonathan Edwards CBE (Olympic Triple-Jump champion and London 2012 Board member), CCI LEAP Education has come to be touring its multimedia road show education bus, the LEAP Bus, to visit schools for workshops, as well as being invited to the Bucks Youth Games 2010 on 26 June with guests, among others, Olympians/Paralympians and MPs including the speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow.
Thames Valley University is leading the development of a unique package of learning material and activity based on the CCI vision, mission and objectives. Drawing upon the varied output of the 13 universities, CCI Education and Learning programmes will develop and deliver:
- Teachers’ educational booklets
- Educational online learning site
- School workshop road show multimedia LEAP bus tour
Programme of Schools Workshop Tour culminating at Bucks Youth Games 2010 and details of CCI LEAP team and workshop leaders, click here (PDF opens in new window, or right click save as to download)
Interactive online dynamic learning site in development: (opens new window)
http://www.creativecampusinitiative.co.uk/collab/
CCI LEAP Education (Learning through Art Practice) extends the CCI universities’ educational output, exploring the London 2012 Olympic/Paralympic Games in arts context. CCI LEAP, as with CCI, is an "Inspire" Mark project as endorsed by LOCOQ (London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games), working to encourage greater participation of schools/colleges in Get Set (official London 2012 education programme).
CCI LEAP is pleased to welcome on board the following schools on the LEAP Bus school workshop education tour (14-22 June 2010). (SNE schools range from moderate to profound learning difficulty and disability.)
14 June 2010 - Mark Way School (SNE) Andover, Hampshire
14 June 2010 - Norman Gate School (SNE) Andover, Hampshire
15 June 2010 - Kent College Infant/Junior (Independent day/boarding) Canterbury, Kent
15 June 2010 - St Nicholas School (SNE) Canterbury, Kent
16 June 2010 - St Edmund's School (Independent day/boarding) Canterbury, Kent
16 June 2010 - 16 June 2010 - Valence School (SNE) Westerham, Kent
17 June 2010 - CCI Symposium, University of Kent
18 June 2010 - Thomas Coram School (Church of England) Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
18 June 2010 - Woodfield School (SNE) Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
21 June 2010 - Mabel Prichard School (SNE) Oxford, Oxfordshire
21 June 2010 - John Watson School (SNE) Oxford, Oxfordshire
22 June 2010 - Arbour Vale School (SNE) Slough, Berkshire
22 June 2010 - Holy Family School (Catholic comprehensive) Addlestone, Surrey
Thames Valley University is delivering these school workshops with workshop leaders drawn internationally from CCI universities and beyond. The LEAP Bus is equipped with a 32i presentation plasma, DVD player/camcorders, 10 wifi laptops with arts software (Audacity music technology, Tux Paint etc.), musical instruments (violin, flute, sheng – bamboo mouth organ etc.) and art exhibition/research materials.
The LEAP Bus workshops (led by two workshop leaders each day) facilitate pupils’ artistic creativity and entail designing ‘reusable,’ ‘sustainable’ medals for the CCI (umbrella, baseball cap, fan and ball - reflecting elements: water, fire, air and earth), embodying the 7 values of the Olympics/Paralympics (Respect-Excellence-Friendship & Courage-Determination-Inspiration-Equality) .
Working with CCC (Create Compete Collaborate) and Bucks 2012, CCI LEAP Education Bus is pleased to be present at the Bucks Youth Games 2010 (Sat. 26 June 2010), featuring up to 1000 young people held at the Stoke Mandeville Stadium (spiritual home of the Paralympic Games). Bucks Youth Games 2010 has also been awarded the prestigious London 2012 “Inspire” Mark with competitors portraying the values of the Olympic & Paralympic Games. Create Compete Collaborate (CCC) is the South East’s principal objective for 2012 working to ensure that every young person in the South East has the opportunity to take part in a project with young people from another country between now and 2012 to broaden their horizons, new skills, and enhanced global awareness and connectedness.
CCI LEAP Education is designed to create a tangible educational legacy leading up to the London 2012 Games and beyond that will help widen participation in higher education and inspire more young people to enter into the arts and creative industries in the region. CCI LEAP has been engaging with partners to take its work to a wider national and international audience through collaborative arts and educational activities/platforms, including partnering with organisations abroad developing outreach activities and open access learning materials to share and take educational resources internationally from the West to the developing world.
