Swansea University are advertising for Creative Facilitators for the First Choice 12 Project.
It is an ESF-funded project delivering intensive personal development workshops using drama, art and dramatherapy to assist children and young people at risk of exclusion address some of the underlying problems that cause them barriers to engagement.
They are seeking professionals who have a positive attitude to Heathcote’s techniques and would be willing to work with them in a team of mixed arts professionals.

Friday 16th March 2012 9:30am-2:30pm,

CEME Centre, Marsh Way , Rainham, Essex , RM13 8EU

Neil will explore ways to meet a range of learning needs within the classroom,

including Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD and Autism.

1. Advance Mantle of the Expert – 2 Day Training Course at Copthorne Hotel London Gatwick, West Sussex
Date: Thu, 09/02/2012 and Fri, 10/02/2012
Duration: 2 days

2. Half Day Study Visits Available at Pound Hill Infant School , Crawley, West Sussex
Date: 26/06/2012

With a wide-ranging review of the national curriculum in full flow and rapid (possibly irreversible) change happening across the whole education system there has never been a more pertinent time to ask: Does the curriculum have a future?

This day-long inquiry conference, suitable for school leaders, teachers, and advisers, will be an exciting opportunity to learn about the current state of the government’s review and the possible shape and scope of the new curriculum. It will also provide a valuable forum for professional discussion on the challenges and opportunities of the new curriculum and school restructuring.

West Midlands Mantle of the Expert Network

Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th January, 2012

We are delighted to announce a special 2-day event with Tim Taylor, looking at steps in planning a Mantle of the Expert project, and ways of covering the curriculum.

The event will take place at Woodrow First School, Longdon Close, Redditch, B98 7UZ.

Dorothy Heathcote MBE, who has died aged 85, was a world-renowned teacher who revolutionised the use of Drama in Education through a variety of pioneering techniques.

It is difficult to grasp how the 14-year-old girl who entered a Yorkshire woollen mill to work in 1940 could become a key international figure in the world of education and drama and yet by the age of 24 she had become a lecturer at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne campus of Durham University, beginning a career that was to span 60 years…

In the past few years much has changed on the educational stage in the UK and internationally. Drama for learning methods as well as the adoption of Mantle of the Expert systems in many learning contexts is becoming more widespread in the UK and in several other countries. We are therefore initiating a Quality Mark with regard to the work of Mantle of the Expert specifically in schools where the use of the system is significant and perhaps affecting whole school policy in curriculum structures and pedagogy.
We are offering schools using mantle of the expert the opportunity to apply and be awarded the QM for a period of three years if they can evidence and comply with the selected criteria they wish to address concerning the use and development of MoE practices [...]

We are pleased to announce our expanded range of training courses for 2011 -12. Our courses can be tailored to all Key Stages and learning environments, including – schools, academies, clusters, universities, special schools and conferences. For more information or to make a booking please contact us at: mail@mantleoftheexpert.com [...]

Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to inform everyone that a new Kent MoE network is being established by Verity Allan and Anna Green from The Bridge Community Primary School and  Joydens Wood Junior School. The network will serve schools and interested parties in and around the Dartford area. There are a possible 13 schools in the [...]

It was announced on June 11th, 2011 that Dr Heathcote has been awarded an MBE for services to drama as education.
Along with all her friends, colleagues and family we would like to congratulate Dorothy on this wonderful honour and once again thank her for inspiration and guidance over many years.
If you would like to send [...]