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National Museum of Ireland: Schools Autumn/Winter 2022 Programme National Museum of Ireland (NMI) The National Museum of Ireland (NMI) is delighted to invite teachers and students across the country to reconnect with culture over the coming school term with an in-person visit to one of its sites. The Museum has launched its autumn/winter 2022 programme of tours, events and activities, which educators can use to get up close to history, spark curiosity, encourage learning, and promote enjoyment of culture. Much of the NMI’s school programme was offered virtually over the past two years due to pandemic restrictions. Many schools enjoyed engaging with the Museum online so there will also still be elements of the programme available to access directly from the classroom. - Primary level: Browse the full autumn/winter 2022 programme - Post Primary level: Browse the full autumn/winter 2022 programme There are four public sites of the National Museum of Ireland now open to the public and available for school visits. School visits are free but booking is essential for all school groups. Continue reading for some selected highlights from the programme: Onsite guided tour: Recovered Voices: Stories and Experiences of the Irish at War: 1914-1915 This tour at the Museum of Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks is available at primary and post primary level, focuses on the people involved in World War One and how the war impacted their lives. View more details here. What’s the Sceál: Objects and Stories A mix of traditional and contemporary stories linked to artefacts in the National Folklife Collection at the Museum of Country Life, Turlough Park with some of Ireland’s premier traditional storytellers, in collaboration with Poetry Ireland. Available online and onsite for primary and post-primary levels. View more details here. New Onsite Workshop: Go Extinct Discover amazing extinct Irish animals in the Museum of Natural History, Kildare Street in this primary level workshop led by a Museum Educator. View more details here. Leaving Certificate Art Tours An onsite tour at the Museum of Archaeology, Merrion Street specifically designed to cover key objects that appear on the History of Art Leaving Certificate specification and traces the development of art in Ireland from the Neolithic to the 12th century. View more details here. For full programme details go to www.museum.ie/en-ie/museums/archaeology/engage-and-learn Architects in Schools Exhibition: Student Response Workshops National Museum of Ireland – Country Life Dates: 1 May to 30 June 2022 The Irish Architecture Foundation and the National Museum of Ireland invite you to Architects in Schools Exhibition. This is a national exhibition created by Transition Year students, teachers and architects responding to themes of Community, Sustainability and Home. This exhibition features 2D drawings and 3D models and were made in workshops by young people, in collaboration with architects and teachers. The exhibits are displayed in different locations throughout the Museum. An exhibition map is available to guide you on this exhibition trail. There are a number of objects in the Irish Folklife collection that link to the exhibition themes so keep an eye out for them! The National Museum of Ireland is facilitating Student Response Workshops in response to the Architects in Schools Exhibition. These school visits are an opportunity for students participating in Architects in Schools to meet each other and share their views and ideas. As part of their visit, they will participate in a workshop facilitated by an architect. Dates: 1 May to 30 June 2022 For more information on the Architects in Schools Exhibition or to book your school slot on a Student Response Workshop, please see www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Country-Life/Exhibitions/Architects-in-schools Resource: Mayo County Council’s A Splash of Blue Mayo County Council Arts Service & Kids’ Own Publishing Primary school resource A Splash of Blue is a Schools Exhibition and classroom resource available on loan from Mayo County Council Arts Service to primary schools in County Mayo. The artworks in the exhibition are part of the Mayo County Council Collection and are by artists from or living in Mayo, or who had an exhibition in the county. A Splash of Blue is an initiative of Mayo County Council Arts Service in collaboration with Kids’ Own Publishing and was developed to make the collection accessible to schools and show children how to explore artworks through looking, thinking, talking and responding in creative ways such as art, writing, music and more. The collection and accompanying resource A Splash of Blue is available now to tour to schools in County Mayo. This booklet is jam packed with children’s thoughts and ideas on how to engage with the artworks in a fun way while they are at your school. So now you can become a creative explorer too and use this booklet to support you on your journey of discovery of the Schools Exhibition. If you would like your school to become a creative explorer and to use ‘A Splash of Blue’ to support you on your journey of discovery of the Schools Exhibition, simply email mayoarts@mayococo.ie or call 09490 64666 to arrange a tour of the collection to your school. For more information see: www.mayo.ie/arts/programme/youth-art/schools-exhibition Event: Wire, Strings & Other Things music performance Linenhall Arts Centre Date: 10:15am, Tuesday 22 February 2022 Linenhall Arts Centre invites your school to ‘Wire, Strings & Other Things’. This music performance encourages you to always be curious. To listen, respond to and communicate through the sounds, music and stories that are all around you – wherever you are and whoever you are with. Meet Ed, Andrea and James, three totally different people with one thing in common – they are crazy about music and sound. Anything can happen as they find each other and start to invent music together. What stories will they share when, with your help, they explore the magic and mystery of how to compose, perform and improvise? Perfect for all primary school classes, Wires, Strings and Other Things links in with the Listening and Responding strand units of the Music curriculum. It fosters a sense of excellence in and appreciation of new music. Through storytelling and composing, this show encourages an awareness and sensitivity to the inter-related elements of music and musical understanding. Experiencing this live music performance means children will see and hear outstanding musicians performing brand new music on a range of instruments including the viola, bass clarinet and improvised musical instruments made from a variety of objects. Date: 10:15am, Tuesday 22 February 2022 Suitable for students ages 6 and up. Pre-booking essential. For more information, see thelinenhall.ticketsolve.com/shows/873630591 New Music Generation Development Officers appointed in Cavan/Monaghan, Galway City and Mayo Music Generation Music Generation is delighted to share news of the appointment of three new Music Development Officers in Cavan/Monaghan, Galway City and Mayo. Mairéad Duffy has taken up the position at Music Generation Cavan/Monaghan, one of the most recent Local Music Education Partnerships (LMEPs) to commence participation in Ireland’s national music education programme, led by Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board with support from Cavan and Monaghan County Councils. Karen Dervan has commenced the role at Music Generation Galway City, another new LMEP under the leadership of Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board together with Galway City Council. One of the first LMEPs established as part of Music Generation, Mayo now welcomes Laurie Barrett as new Music Development Officer. Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board is the lead partner on this programme. In their new posts, Mairéad, Karen and Laurie will have responsibility for developing and managing affordable and accessible local performance music education programmes for children and young people ages 0 to 18. This will include the coordination of music tuition services within the counties, working in partnership with schools, community music groups and centres in the formation of choirs, ensembles, multi-genre performance initiatives, and more. Initiated by Music Network, Music Generation is co-funded by U2, The Ireland Funds, the Department of Education and Skills and Local Music Education Partnerships. For further information go to https://www.musicgeneration.ie A Journey with our Children Tell us the story of your project – What was the impetus? What was it about? Who was involved? How did you begin? This project was a collaboration between early childhood educators at Woodland Park preschool in Westport; Karen O’Brien, Mary Skillington, Joanna Kuruc, Kasia Rymarczyk, Bridgit McNamara, Ciara MacNally, Erszi Whyte and resident visual artist Lucy Hill. The collaboration between artist and early years setting began in 2007. The early years setting was located in a building that was previously a primary school and so had a large site with an excess of classrooms. An arrangement was made to use one of the classrooms as a studio space in exchange for collaborating on visual art projects including creating temporary play environments for the children with materials sourced from the Creative Resource Centre. This particular documentation project grew out of many conversations. There was a strong desire to try to highlight the very many ephemeral moments at preschool where children display positive learning dispositions that could easily be invisible to adults or even understood as ‘mis-behaviour’. The project was grounded in the belief that very young children are competent, capable learners who demonstrate an explorative attitude as they ‘re/present’ their ideas, thoughts and feelings with multiple mediums. Much of the learning, discoveries, creativity and innovations of very young children happen in front of our eyes but need to be framed in understandable ways in order for adults to fully grasp the power and impact of what is unfolding. So for this project, there was no theme, no direction, no grand plan other than this question of how to capture children’s agency in the tiniest everyday moments that may be deeply impactful as an education tool for adults if framed in an understandable way and so the idea for a book document developed. The book would then provide a reflective tool for children where they could visit and revisit their creations in partnership with peers, educators and their parents. How were the ideas developed and how did the young people, artist and teacher work together? The children followed the everyday routines of work and play within the preschool day. During free play children made choices as they selected materials and explored the affordances of these materials. The artist and educators together captured many photographs, conversations and children’s everyday activities over several months. There were weekly meetings which explored children’s lines of enquiry and observed interests. These were followed with discussion on how the documentation was developing, what was being captured, what could be found through knowledge of individual children and the particular schema they may be working within. The relational foundation between educators and children was fundamental to revealing the value of the moments being captured where knowledge of individual children’s interests, personalities and competencies was crucial. The artist as documenter was able to take a ‘bird’s eye’ view of the everyday. The main headings within the document emerged slowly through the editing and discussion process. It felt important to allow sufficient time for the project and so it happened in a very unhurried way over several months. An exhibition was planned for Westport library in order to celebrate the children’s artwork and provide visibility of their learning to the wider community. Key competencies were highlighted and dispositions such as involvement, persistence, problem solving and creativity were exemplified through a display of poster pages. What was your personal experience of the project in terms of successes and challenges? Artist: My personal experience of the project was an awareness of the delicacy and responsibility implicit in documenting young children’s work and play practices. At all costs we wanted to avoid moments that might frame children from an adult’s aesthetic or that could be seen as a promotional tool. The purpose was to try to get to the core of what was occurring for the children, often using the children’s voice. In the end, the photographs used were all taken by the educators themselves, and included the messiness of the working space, the un-staged every-day. I helped with the design of the document and putting it together but each of the educators also had full access to the editing process and there was much discussion around what should go where and there was no time deadline imposed. Mary took responsibility for the main body of text in the book and Joanna took responsibility for the exhibition design and layout. Educators: This project provided us with an opportunity to reflect on the learning which took place as children engaged with each other and the environment. Through observation we began to recognise the affordances the environment offered as children engaged with a wide variety of materials. Decisions about what to document was a challenge as there was an abundance of images and narratives collected. What was significant for you about the project that is worth sharing? Long term collaborations between artists and educators are hugely useful, interesting and valuable scenarios from which children and adults equally stand to benefit and learn. Has anything changed in your work as a result of the project? Artist: This project had a significant impact on my practice. It has led to us collaborating on my current PhD project. Within the research, the focus on what is unfolding for the children can be accessed in a very privileged way, due to the trust and respect that has been established over the past ten years. I am very grateful for the continuous openness, generosity and opportunities to learn. Educator: The artist provided alternative perspectives on children’s creative and communicative potentials as we worked together to promote children’s developing ability to symbolically represent their ideas with clay, constructions, drawings, and paintings. The artist opened us up to the tools and the need to communicate children’s understandings through various media. As we collected and contemplated transcripts of children’s conversations and detailed renderings of their developing understandings, we also began to refine our own form of symbolic representation. Working with an artist prompted us to advocate for more reciprocal adult–child conversations. Over time, documentation became more integral to our practice, illustrating the principle that culturally constructed ways of life depend on “shared modes of discourse for negotiating differences in meaning and interpretation” (Bruner, 1990, p. 13).
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Acmhainn: ‘A Splash of Blue’ le Comhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo Seirbhís Ealaíon Chomhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo & Kids' Own Publishing Acmhainn bhunscoile Is Taispeántas Scoileanna agus acmhainn ranga é ‘A Splash of Blue’ atá ar fáil ar iasacht do bhunscoileanna i gContae Mhaigh Eo ó Sheirbhís Ealaíon Chomhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo. Tá na saothair ealaíne sa taispeántas mar chuid de bhailiúchán Chomhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo, agus baineann siad le healaíontóirí atá ag cur fúthu i Maigh Eo nó a raibh taispeántas acu sa chontae. Togra de chuid Sheirbhís Ealaíon Chomhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo is ea ‘A Splash of Blue’, a forbraíodh i gcomhpháirt le Kids’ Own Publishing chun go mbeadh rochtain ag scoileanna ar an mbailiúchán lena thaispeáint do leanaí conas saothair ealaíne a fhiosrú trí fhéachaint, smaoineamh, caint agus freagairt ar bhealaí cruthaitheacha. Tá an bailiúchán ‘A Splash of Blue’ agus an acmhainn atá ag gabháil leis ar fáil anois le cuairt a thabhairt ar scoileanna i gContae Mhaigh Eo. Tá an leabhrán lán le smaointí ó leanaí maidir le conas dul i ngleic leis na saothair ealaíne ar bhealach taitneamhach agus iad á dtaispeáint i do scoil. Anois féadfaidh tusa bheith i do thaiscéalaí cruthaitheach, agus an leabhrán seo á úsáid agat chun tacú le do thóraíocht taisce ar Thaispeántas na Scoileanna. Más spéis le do scoil a bheith páirteach agus ‘A Splash of Blue’ a úsáid chun tacú le do chuid taiscéalaíochta ar Thaispeántas na Scoileanna, cuir r-phost chuig mayoarts@mayococo.ie nó cuir glaoch ar 09490 64666 chun cuairt saor in aisce chuig do scoil a eagrú. Le haghaidh tuilleadh eolais, féach: www.mayo.ie/arts/programme/youth-art/schools-exhibition