Monthly news: October 2006
Issue 10, October 2006
Welcome to our tenth issue of education news! Every four weeks these pages will provide our pick of current news from the world of education, to help keep you up to speed with what's on in this dynamic and diverse sector.
We hope you enjoy this issue but we also want to ensure that the news here is balanced and varied, and that it meets your needs. Please contact the team at ruler@rarepublishing.co.uk if there's anything you would like to hear more about from us. Happy reading!
These days, you don’t have to be a prospective Picasso, budding Botticelli or emerging Emin to have your artwork exhibited. A new website is allowing people across the globe the chance to enjoy pieces, not from bohemian cafes of pre-war Paris, Renaissance Italy or even a grubby 1990s London bedroom, but from today’s schools.
Schools across the country have been celebrating creativity and enterprise with a little help from the Future Vision Tour bus, which rolled in to the grounds of John Cabot City Technology College in Bristol earlier this month. The visit began a two-week nationwide tour of award-winning schools that have demonstrated learning through creativity and enterprise in the local community.
Science teachers will now be able to aspire to the same professional heights that accountants, engineers and surveyors have long since taken for granted.
Black History Month in October celebrates the cultural heritage, history and influence of Black people in British society. Theatre performances, art exhibitions, music concerts, discussion groups and food tastings are being held all over the country to mark the occasion, so there are plenty of resources at teachers’ fingertips to bring black history alive in the classroom.
October might be Black History Month, but resources on black history are available all year round. We visit the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum to find out what it has to offer teachers.
Cleo Sylvestre is a respected theatre and TV actress. She recently starred in Vagabondia (a film shortlisted for The Turner Prize) and Antony Sher’s play, I.D. During Black History Month, she performed her one-woman show, Forgotten Woman: Travels with Mary Seacole, which she wrote and directed, and will be touring schools in the UK.
