Evaluation Report 2018-9 Table of Contents
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EVALUATION REPORT 2018-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. CONTEXT 3 2. INTRODUCTION 4 3. METHODOLOGY 5 4. LEARNING PROGRAMME 6 5. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS 8 6. REPLICATE 9 7. INNOVATE 10 8. PARTNER 11 9. BUILDING GEOGRAPHICAL REACH 12 10. ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING 13 11. CONCLUSIONS 16 2 CONTEXT Little Green Pig (LGP) is a registered charity based in Brighton & Hove who offer free Little Green Pig Vision writing workshops for children and young people (CYP) in Brighton & Hove and Sussex. We believe that writing can LGP serves all young people in the city but focus resources on young people most in positively change lives. Our need. They do this through the strategic partnerships they develop, the varied vision is that all children and programme they deliver and the locations in which they work. young people in Sussex have LGP began in 2008 with two weekly after school writing workshops, inspired by a space and time to write for writing centre and shop for pirates set up in San Francisco by writer Dave Eggers called pleasure and purpose, and the 826 Valencia. LGP is now part of a network of similar writing organisations across the opportunity to share their stories. world, from the Labo des Histoires in Paris, France, to 100 Story Building in Sydney, Australia. LGP continues to work with a wide range of partners to draw inspiration, share best To date, LGP has worked with practice and engage with new ideas. As well as advocating for the power of writing to over 3000 children and young people, trained 250 volunteers transform young people’s lives, LGP works in local schools where pupils experience and is working with a growing social or educational disadvantage, as well as continuing to have an active out-of-school number of professional writers provision. All sessions are facilitated by dedicated workshop leaders and supported by a and artists. team of trained volunteers. 3 INTRODUCTION Autumn Arts Award, with Towner Gallery, Bourne Primary School and after school clubs Everyday & Extraordinary project with Towner Gallery, Bourne Primary School and after school clubs In the 2018-19 academic year, LGP Authors, Illustrators, Icons & Legends workshop with Hove Junior published a new three-year strategy School Storymaking workshops with Queens Park Primary School document with clear targets for East Sussex Music Service Big Sing in Firle Church of England Primary organisational and programme School, Cradle Hill Community Primary School, Seaford Head School, The Baird Primary Academy and St John's, Crowborough growth. The strategic plan sets some Shoebox Stories workshop at Fabrica Gallery key objectives for the learning programme, recognising the Spring potential to reach more young people with high quality experiences through replicating successful 6 Boxes Graphic Novel Project with after school clubs projects and delivering them in new Storymaking workshop at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School geographical settings. Building on the evaluation from the previous academic year, the Summer following report explores how LGP Past, Present, Future film project with after school clubs has begun to deliver on these AMPLIFIED with Brighton Festival Me, Myself, Us with Virtual School ambitions. Storymaking workshop at Burgess Hill Library Travel guide workshops with Bourne Primary School We are all creative workshop at Fabrica Gallery Storymaking, comic strip and writings activities in Newhaven 4 METHODOLOGY LGP collected evaluation data in the following ways: o Participation data o CYP self-assessment at the beginning and end of sessions o Plenaries with CYP at the end of workshop sessions o CYP self assessment using an Evaluation Wheel o Debriefs with volunteers at the end of every session o Informal feedback from teachers and parents at the end of sessions and showcase events o Feedback from workshop leaders For the purposes of this report the following terms will be used: LGP – Little Green Pig CYP – Children and Young People This year – will refer to the academic year of September 2018 - August 2019 (including the summer holiday) 5 LEARNING PROGRAMME PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS RANGE OF STIMULI Poetry and poets Arts Award Graphic novel artist and writer This year LGP piloted Explore and Discover Arts Award in its work. Working in partnership Young people’s life experience with Towner Gallery, LGP concurrently delivered Arts Award through after school clubs in Gallery exhibition Brighton & Hove. As a result of this project 100% of participants achieved Arts Award; 107 Filmed performance CYP in total, with 59 at Discover and 48 at Explore level. In addition to the achievements of Photo documentation of daily life participants, LGP workshop leaders and volunteers gained valuable skills and experience in Interviews with members of the delivering the award. community Local landmarks The Everyday and Extraordinary This project involved two new partners in Eastbourne. CYP from Bourne Primary School had SHARING WRITING workshops in school and at Towner Gallery to write poetry inspired by the Arts Council Live public performance England Collection. The final pieces were performed on film and shared at a public event at Published graphic novel the gallery. As well as achieving excellent outcomes for the young participants, the project Radio performance consolidated partnership working in the new geographical area. Furthermore, working with Filmed performance partners in this way resulted in some valuable learning for the LGP team as they build a Anthology of new writing Documentary of CYP activity wider geographical reach. Filmed performance Six Boxes Graphic Novel Project Whilst LGP has done one-off comic book and illustration workshops before, this was the first TYPES OF WRITING Poetry project focused solely on this art form. In twelve weeks of workshops over three after school Graphic novel clubs, sixty children met with professional artist Ottilie Hainsworth to explore the graphic Public speech novel as a medium for telling stories. CYP created and illustrated their own individual stories Radio performance over six boxes, which were published in a collection. The collection was launched at the best Filmed performance attended launch event to date. The project was developed in partnership with the artist Historical fiction Ottilie Hainsworth, who originally started as a volunteer illustrator with LGP and she is now a Imagined diary entries published author/illustrator. Future postcards 6 LEARNING PROGRAMME PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS AMPLIFIED A group of young people aged 12-19 explored their own life experiences in a series of workshops, supported by professional writers, workshop leaders and volunteers. Their stories were shared at three live public speaking events, including to an audience of 150 at LGP has given him a boost to the main public event as part of Brighton Festival 2019. Feedback from participants, families pursue his dreams at a time when and audiences was overwhelmingly positive, citing that the project resulted in greater he feels unseen, unheard and confidence for the participants and the audiences gained greater understanding of the unvalued…Brighton is full of challenges YP face. LGP staff and CYP also featured on Radio Reverb, BBC Sussex and a series cultural courses but for Joss of four films documenting the stories. nearly all of them are in Me, Myself, Us (film & publication) accessible, LGP have beautifully After hearing about AMPLIFIED, Brighton & Hove City Council commissioned LGP to work included him and given him a with the Virtual School, supporting CYP in care to explore their identity and personal story. platform to shine. This was both a new partnership and new group of CYP who accessed LGP. CYP expressed Parent / guardian their individual stories in a range of mediums, including poetry, prose and illustration. The participants displayed outstanding bravery and openness to produce work for the end publication and film. I have seen a huge change in [P]. Past, Present, Future film project Her confidence is through the This project brought CYP together with communities from across the city, crossing age roof. She loves to share all she barriers and ethnicities, and encouraging empathy, sharing and learning about each other’s does with everyone. Little Green lives. Each group focused on one of the three strands (past, present or future) over 6 weeks. Pig has been amazing for my The 50 children, aged 7 -11, visited local landmarks or community spaces, interviewed daughter… people from their communities and used their research to create original writing pieces. The Parent / guardian writing, pictures, interviews and audio were edited into a final 16 minute film which was shared online, at a public event and in local school assemblies, reaching over 600 people. Two young participants and the Learning Manager will also be interviewed on Latest TV about their experience in the project in November 2019. 7 KEY ACHIEVEMENTS 2017-18 2018-19 Number of young people worked with: 849 724 Number of creative experiences: 1993 2294 LGP delivered a rich and varied learning programme to (one child partaking in one workshop) 724 young people this academic year. Working with Arts Award enabled LGP to work in a more focused way. Number of workshops run: 136 139 Consequently, the number of CYP worked with went down and the number of individual creative experiences rose. LGP also increased the number of Number of schools worked with: 17 22 one-off workshops delivered, expanded its geographical reach along the coast and worked with more schools. Number of after school clubs: 3 3 LGP continued to deliver the same number of after school clubs. However, this year all after school clubs Number of professional artists & writers took place in primary schools, with an additional school 9 9 engaged: coming on board this year. LGP worked with professional artists and writers across Number of volunteers: 52 80 the projects. To manage the growing programme, LGP grew the volunteer pool and provided more individual Number of volunteer opportunities : 367 461 opportunities for volunteers.