News archive Sept 08 – June 09

Posted 20th May 2009

Free outdoor performance at SBC

The Southbank Centre and the Young Vic are currently in rehearsal with schools in Lambeth and Southwark to create a major new outdoor production to be performed outside the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 4th July.

There are 2 performances which are both free to the public so please come along to support Lambeth pupils from Wyvil Primary School, Heathbrook Primary School, Stockwell Primary School and The Livity School.

The performance is inspired by the classic poem The Wedding/The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem will come alive through original music by Southbank Centre Artists in Residence, Bellowhead, and a cast featuring 150 children from Lambeth and Southwark primary schools.

Performance date and times: Saturday 4 July at 12pm or 3pm Location: Southbank Centre Square, (back of Royal Festival Hall), Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX

Posted 13th May 2009

Year 12 Students from Turney School premiered their new composition, 'Turning to Sound' at the British Film Institute at the beginning of May. Pupils worked with CLC tutors and guest artist Duncan Chapman to create their new audio visual work using a new software developed by Goldsmiths College, Lumisonic, for use with Wii Controllers. Students were able to control and manipulate their recorded soundscapes using the controllers. Following the success of the programme the CLC will develop this work for other special schools in the borough. For more information please contact

tech@lambethclc.org.uk

Posted 30th April 2009

Lambeth CLC has been working in partnership with the BFI to support the 2009 Future Film Festival.

The Festival was a great success, and as a result there are a number of exciting opportunities for young people in Lambeth aged 15 to 25 to engage in films and film-making, including cheap and free film screenings

Check the BFI website for more details:

www.bfi.org.uk/futurefilm

Posted 9th April 2009

Friday 8th May at the Royal Festival Hall

Tickets £2.50 plus 1 free teacher place per 10 pupils

This unique production based on one of the most popular pieces of classical music for children showcases a new Oscar winning animation of the story with full narration accompanied by the City of London Sinfonia. The event, created especially for schools, will introduce pupils to the instrumental cast of the orchestra and to some of the stop-frame animation techniques used to create this unique version of the piece.

Tickets are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Appropriate for KS2+

For more information or to make a group booking please call the box office on 0871 663 2598

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Posted 9th April 2009

For the third consecutive year the CLC has worked with students from Lilian Baylis Technology School as part of the BBC School Report.  Year 8 students worked alongside BBC professionals and CLC filmmakers developing the necessary journalistic & media skills to broadcast their own news reports on the BBC website  on 26 March 09.

Visit the BBC website for full details of the school report project http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report

See the Lilian Baylis report http://http://lbts.lilianbaylis.com/LBTS_School_Report_09.html

Posted 31st March 2009

A new laptop library programme has started at Bishop Thomas Grant Secondary School.

The course supports parents of children who received an ASUS EEE PC through the Computers for Pupils Home Access programme.

Lambeth CLC is investigating how the ASUS EEE PC, with its linux operating system, may offer opportunities to support families.

The course has invited parents and carers to use the laptop to engage with their teenagers at home, by making presentations using photographs of the family, and sharing their slideshows with the group.

One parent commented that she can now understand why her teenager spends so long online after she was able to make contact with a long lost friend on Facebook, while using the Wi-Fi access in a coffee shop.

Posted 23rd March 2009

As part of The London Film Festival, Lambeth CLC, The BFI, and Sibelius ran a workshop allowing young people could work alongside professional musicians to produce a film score.

Click here to see how it all happened.

Posted 16th March 2009

On Saturday 14th March Lambeth primary schools took part in the IBM Robo Challenge II.

After months of preparation and support from IBM Volunteers, Clapham Youth Centre and staff at Lambeth CLC, teams of children and teachers gathered at IBM HQ to test their programming and engineering skills using Lego NXT robots.

Eight primary schools competed in various challenges throughout the day including: a robot race, best dressed robot, team work, a presentation, robot dancing, and the final challenge, programming under pressure.

Special thanks goes out to all IBM staff and volunteers, Vincent at Clapham Youth Centre, and all the Lambeth teachers and pupils who participated.

Congratulations are in order for Archbishop Sumner C.E. Primary School, the overall winners of the event, and Glenbrook Primary School, who won the judges special prize, and earned themselves a trip to the set of MI High courtesy of the BBC.

See a full report on the Lambeth Council site by clicking on the following link http://bit.ly/SKNjg

Posted 3rd March 2009

As part of the Speaking Up programme funded by Lambeth Commissioning Services, students from Livity School participated in a theatre residency and performed their devised work in school at the end of February.

Working with practitioners from the Young Vic Theatre (including a director, actor and musician), students from Orange class created a magical story which took the audience and performers on a journey through the sea, sky and a jungle in order to crack the password which would return a friend to them.

The next Speaking Up event is a Poetry Slam at the Ritzy Cinema on Wednesday 11 March involving Lark Hall, Telferscot, Richard Atkins and St John's Angell Town.

For more information contact Hannah Quigley either on 0207 401 2345 or e-mail hquigley@lambethclc.org.uk

Posted 12th February 2009

In December 2008 a photography exhibition took place at the Young Vic Theatre (on the outside billboards and inside the foyer). It included work by Year 10 & 11 students from the Olive Centre who had taken part in a partnership project with Lambeth CLC, the Young Vic Theatre and Spectaculu (a school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

The project, linked to the Young Vic Christmas show, Amäzonia explored nature, the Amazon and the impact man and cities are having on the environment. The exhibition compared and contrasted young peoples' photographic responses to these ideas and problems in two very different cities.

Students at Spectaculu are currently organizing an exhibition at a Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro.

Posted 21st January 2009

The next Family Learning Network Meeting will be held on 12th March from 12.30 to 4.30 pm in the Blue Room, Spirit Level at the Royal Festival Hall.

Please contact Liz Abbensetts either on 0207 401 2345 or e-mail labbensetts@lambethclc.org.uk for more information.

Posted 16th January 2008

Lambeth CLC wishes you all a Happy New Year! We have a full and exciting program planned for this term. Watch this space for details, but highlights will include our animation festival, more CPD sessions, an IT Diploma day, our animation festival, family learning courses and events from our newly expanded Arts Team. Full details to follow shortly...

Posted 17th October 2008

The deadline for round 9 of Artmark is fast approaching. If your school would like support in completing the application in time for the deadline of the 21st November, please contact arts@lambethclc.org.uk

For further details visit the Lambeth CLC Artsmark pages.

Posted 3rd October 2008

Participants in last years lego challenge

Working in partnership with IBM and the Clapham Youth Centre, Lambeth CLC will help co-ordinate the second IBM Lego Robo Challenge.

The challenge provides 10 Lambeth Primary schools with an exciting opportunity to learn to use Lego NXT Robots.

Participating schools, represented by a team of pupil-technicians, will each design and program a Lego NXT robot for a series of tests. A final competition against other schools will be hosted by IBM in March 2009.

To help prepare for the finals each school will be assigned a Lego NXT specialist advisor.

Posted 1st September 2008

Olive Group's Visit to Hayward Gallery

Year 10 students from the Olive Centre in Kennington have all achieved their bronze level Arts Award at the CLC. The students who are all new arrivals, attended weekly sessions at Lambeth CLC, working on a variety of digital media projects from animation to web design. This successful scheme, now in its second year, was recently featured on teachers' tv as part of its Innovations season.

www.teachers.tv/video/27091

Posted 1st September 2008

For the second consecutive term the South Bank Centre in partnership with Lambeth CLC is offering free introductory sessions for KS2 classes on the Royal Festival Hall's beautiful Javanese percussion ensemble…. The Gamelan, made up of tuned metallophones, gongs and drums, is easy to play and requires no previous experience. For the first hour of these 2 hour sessions half the class will work with one of the RFH Gamelan tutors while the other half visits the Saison Poetry Library before swapping for the second half of the session.

Sessions will be allocated on a first come, first served basis (1 workshop per school).

Tuesday 18 November 2008 10.30am
Tuesday 25 November 2008 10.30am
Tuesday 2 December 2008 10.30am
Tuesday 9 December 2008 10.30am

For bookings call the RFH box office on 0871 663 2598 with your preferred date and class details quoting Lambeth Schools Gamelan Offer.

Posted 1st September 2008

Six Lambeth schools have been accepted onto the Creative Partnerships Change School programme for 08/09. The scheme will enable schools to engage in an intensive programme, lasting between one and three years, exploring whole school creative development. For more details visit the Creative Partnerships section of the website.

Congratulations to the following schools;
Archbishop Sumner CE Primary School
Hill Mead Primary School
Holy Trinity CE Primary School
Julians Primary School
Lambeth Academy
Norwood School

Posted 1st September 2008

Black History Month Project -
Filming session

Lambeth CLC launches its 2008 Black History Month Film Festival at the BFI Southbank at the end of September. Using Floella Benjamin's highly acclaimed 'Coming to Britain' series as a stimulus, 120 pupils from across four schools, will create their own short documentaries which will be screened in a special premiere event in NFT1 on Wednesday 5 November.

Posted 1st September 2008

Our very successful Laptop Library course was featured on Teachers TV as part of a series of programmes on Innovation. If your school is thinking of running a Family Learning programme or laptop library this is essential viewing to better understand the process and the benefits.

www.teachers.tv/video/26184