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Earlier this year South East Dance was invited by Creative Partnerships Hastings and East Sussex to work with year six pupils from two schools in Hastings. We matched artists from Underground7, a new dance group based in Brighton, with teachers and pupils from Red Lake Primary School and Castledown Primary School. To devise the project Kyla from South East Dance and Victoria Fox, Jason Keenan-Smith and Welly O’Brien (Underground7) met with teachers from the two schools to discuss topics the pupils were learning about in other areas of the curriculum and to work out the literacy skills that needed to be improved ahead of the SATs exams.
Over the ten week project the artists used recycling as the topic for Castledown School and the Egyptians in Red Lake School. At Castledown School, the pupils danced the story of the ‘life of a plastic bottle’ to develop narrative and looked at the opposing arguments of scientists and campaigners about climate change to understand how to construct arguments from different perspectives. At Red Lake School, the sessions enabled the young people to describe different emotions and to develop character through movement.
In both schools, the pupils were incredibly enthusiastic and looked forward to the sessions each week. At Castledown the pupils decorate T shirts as a means of documenting their learning each week and at the end of the project they wore them as costumes for the final performance. You can see these in the photograph.
South East Dance is now evaluating the project and working towards a final sharing day of a range of Creative Partnerships projects in July. We hope that the relationships begun with both schools and Creative Partnerships will continue and that the pupils will feel confident as their SATs exams approach!
For more information about Underground 7 click here.
For more information about Creative Partnerships click here.
Email: Kyla Lucking, Head of Community & Learning | Tel: 01273 645267
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