Schools
TVA works with early years, primary and secondary schools, PRUs & colleges; with gifted and talented students, students with special needs, disengaged learners & those at risk of exclusion, and not forgetting those who are steadily getting on, but are sometimes overlooked.
We deliver ‘pure arts’, where an excellent artistic process and outcome is the main focus, but more often than not, arts are the medium – as a tool of engagement and learning across the curriculum. Science and environmental learning through the arts is a particular area of expertise, but we also deliver activity which can address all areas of the curriculum, as well as whole-school issues such as behaviour & attendance.
TVA can work with you in a number of different ways:
Off-the-shelf
Joe Dunne, our Heritage and Environment Officer, offers a range of one-off visual arts workshops for all Key Stages, looking at recycling, habitats and minibeasts, carbon footprints amongst other things. Click here for Primary and here for Secondary
Cost: £200 + VAT for a half-day session
Outdoor Environmental Learning through the Arts workshops at Hemlington Hall Farm & Lake 2012
TVA funded programmes
We devise creative educational projects of varying scale and with varying focus. We often devise these projects with teachers, advisers and other specialists and then source appropriate funding for them, meaning schools can apply to participate for a highly subsidised rate.
Our current programme is Green TV – environmental learning through the arts and is suitable for Primary and Secondary schools. To see more about this project click here
To see examples of previous TVA funded programmes go to
Evolve
Green Hearts
Bespoke Projects
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We can work with you to design a bespoke or tailored project/ programme to suit the needs of staff and students - whether it’s a series of workshops, a week long residency, or a full year of activity (or anything in-between). We can work with a range of budgets, and if needed, we are happy to look at sourcing funding with you.
Click here for examples
Training
TVA delivers Arts Award Adviser Training for Bronze and Silver (Level 1 and 2 qualification) and Gold (Level 3 qualification – 35 UCAS points). We run public training dates throughout the year – click here for booking and can also offer in-house training. If you have 8 or more people to be trained (and you may want to ‘share’ with one of your partner schools), then in-house is more cost effective.
Click here for more info about Arts Award
CPD
Within our funded programmes, we often build-in CPD for teachers and school staff but we can also work with you to deliver stand-alone CPD. This might be with a ‘pure arts’ focus – e.g. gaining skills in drawing & using different materials such as charcoal or looking at using drama techniques to deliver cross-curricular subjects. Sessions can be delivered within curriculum time or as twilights after school, exploring creative approaches to teaching and learning and giving staff the confidence and skills to try new things.
Teacher Quotes:
One noticeable aspect of being involved with the Green TV Project was the improved behaviour and positive attitude of a very boisterous, boy heavy class, due to the Outdoor Learning Environment They enjoyed learning new techniques in an out of classroom environment with experienced artists and environmentalists. They loved working with the natural resources found on each site – clay from the lake area at The Whinnies, leaves, flowers etc at South Burdon. During and after the Green TV Project the pupils from Year 3 felt so empowered that they took their parents to the wildlife centres to show them the art work they had done on site. They were so proud of their achievements! The parents had no idea that the sites existed on their doorstep! Now they go on family visits and the children lead the art activities for younger family members.
HeadTeacher, Gurney Pease Primary, Darlington
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