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October 5th - 9th 2009
December 7th - 11th 2009
February 1st - 5th 2010

Gateshead City Learning Centre brings you... Wii Will Rock You!

A whole day activity for one class per school (first come first served).

Your class will take part in a Battle of the Bands style competition based on the Wii Rock Band game. More than that, this is an exciting, cross-curricular, creative project comprising multiple elements to get everyone involved!

• There will be 3 full week heats with 10 schools per week.
• This is a whole day activity for one class
• Winning school from each week to go forward to glittering Final event in early 2010
• Awesome prizes for Heat/Event winners
• Each school to nominate band members, dancers, management, promotions team, video/media crew, guitar designers

Your class will produce...

• Band Performance (using Wii Rock Band)
• Dance Performance (using Wii Dance)
• Band Logo and Promotional Material
• Merchandise Design
• European/World Tour Itinerary
• Guitar Design (fascia will be manufactured)
• T-Shirt design (examples will be manufactured)
• Band Video
• Radio Interview
• Band website

Places are limited to 2 schools per day. Please call us on 0191 460 2900 to book your session

Please note: participating schools will be expected to attend a twilight briefing session about this project.

Over the past few days we've been running several sessions which have focused on the 1941 air raid disaster at Wilkinsons Lemonade Factory in North Shields.

Using text, archival materials and artifacts the children from Bill Quay and Windy Nook have explored the incident and have used Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners to understand the wider, Tyneside Blitz and Home Front context. The sessions have concluded with the creation of music soundtracks to Blitz footage (using Jam Trax) and comic strips promoting air raid awareness (Comic Life).

We also encouraged the class from Bill Quay to participate in some propaganda!

An Out of this World Poetry Festival with 4 leading UK children's poets.

We have 12 sessions in total aimed at children in Years 3,4,5 and 6.
Due to expected demand availability is on a first come, first served basis with schools limited to one session (35 children maximum). Each session will comprise a performance and a workshop led by the poet.

Children can contribute their own poems and poetry podcasts to the Festival website.

The Poets
Nick Toczek
Paul Cookson
Craig Bradley
Gez Walsh

We've just had a great Djembe master class at the CLC with Sam Maitland and Zozo Shuaibu from Kuzari. 120 children from St Philip Neri and St Mary and St Thomas Aquinas schools attended the morning and afternoon sessions.

Sam and Zozo gave each child a mini-drumming lesson, taught basic djembe drum language and then got the children even more active with songs, stories and games.

Look out for further whole-day sessions in November/December with Sam and Zozo.

You can see more photos from the day at the Kuzari website

You can download our programme for Primary schools for 2008-2009 below

Primary Programme (PDF)

Students from Whickham School studying ICT visited the CLC today for a one-day session on Dreamweaver. The students learned how to create a basic, multipage website with text, images and hyperlinks. They also discussed elements of web design and good practice.

We're now offering local schools half day or full day sessions aimed at creating new content for the CLC webradio station. We're looking for 20-30 minute pieces which combine talk/music/jingles. These contributions could be school documentaries, poetry/story readings, school music, drama, MFL....We help you with the technical ins-and-outs....You get your hands on professional radio kit and software. Fun!
Please contact Mike Carter/Peter Bolger on 0191 460 2900

KAP is a mixed media approach to creating short videos shot from a slightly different perspective.
You can see a sample video shot combining Google Maps, our indoor Blimp and a wireless video camera. Contact us if you would like to bring your class down to the CLC to take part in this exciting new course.

See the streaming video here

Foundation Stage-Early Years/KS1/KS2 Music

We're pleased to announce a whole day course for teachers led by Kevin Hamel (author of the critically acclaimed website www.tuned-in.org) and Zozo Shuaibu - a fun, hands-on exploration of the tuned-in resource, offering know-how, support and tips for both the "terrified" and confident teacher.

November 13/14/15 2006
09.00-16.00
Gateshead City Learning Centre (Watermark)
FREE - Contribution to supply cost available

BOOK NOW - SPACES LIMITED
0191 4602900

Download Poster (Word: 124KB)

visit tuned-in.org online