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This year SEND delivered a 10 week Family Learning music course at the Joseph Wittaker Secondary School in Rainworth nr. Mansfield.Family Learning courses are after-school short courses set up by the A.C.L.S. (Adult and Community Learning Service) for parents to spend more time with their children, allowing them to learn together and in-turn, also teach each other.

Our group spent 10 weeks learning and mastering digital music production techniques using Ableton Live http://www.ableton.com/ with thanks to our professionally trained, Ableton representative in the East Midlands, Lee Marriott.

SEND would like to thank all the Parents and young people for taking part in the course and enabling themselves to reach their full potential in an extra-curricular activity using quite difficult, industry-standard software. SEND would also like to give a big thank you to the staff at the school who helped us to deliver the course, and the A.C.L.S. for implementing the project.

For two weeks over July and August this summer, six lucky young people from the Derbyshire youth offending service were given the chance to work with the SEND Project in an Arts Award summer programme whereby they were able to explore their individual creative talents in digital music production and urban street art.

The video above shows the wall that three young people designed and painted at Long Eaton community youth centre, which also hand in hand created a new legal graffiti site for young people in the local area to help stop tagging and what is seen as ‘acts of vandalism’ around Long Eaton.

The Send Project would like to give a massive thank you to all the young people who achieved their arts award, giving another 100% pass rate, and to Leanne Sutton for designing and implementing the summer programme pretty much by herself!

All the young offenders enjoyed the experience and learned some new transferable skills and we are looking forward to delivering another one next year!

Many blessings to Billy. You will remain in our hearts forever and we wish you all the best.

We would like to give a massive thanks to all staff, volunteers and everybody who helped SEND in the development and delivery of a 6 week summer project for a group of young people from St Stephens C of E primary school in Sneinton.

During June and July a group of yr 6 children who were moving from primary to secondary school spent their summer weeks with the SEND team at the greenway centre taking part in a series of AQA accredited courses in Music technology, T-shirt print design and CD cover design. We also held group mentoring sessions during the weeks to help with bullying, any anticipations, fears and preconceptions of moving up to ‘big school’.

The transition group was marvellous and worked very hard throughout the 6 weeks!! After a (short) 2 day reunion during half term to do some painting and/or write some music, the group has settled very well into Greenwood Dale School in Sneinton, and we look forward to seeing them again in the future and to next year’s project!!

Due to the great success of our Family Learning course at the Joseph Wittaker school in Rainworth this year, SEND are starting another course for parents to come and learn how to make music at the same time as their child(ren). On Monday 9th November we are hosting a drop in session for parents and children to come and have an introductory look at what the course will involve and meet the staff.

The course is free for all and open to all skill levels!! Please feel free to come in on Monday between 3:30 and 4:30 to join and have a chat.

SEND Project are hosting introduction to break dancing lessons at the greenway centre every Wednesday evening from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. The sessions will only cost 50p per session for any age and for any level of experience. These sessions will be working on a first come first serve basis due to restrictions in group numbers and the success and popularity of our courses, so if you wish to join please call the above phone number to book a place or turn up early.

The SEND, Groundhogs and Greenway centre staff are employing a NO TOLERANCE policy and will not accept any form of abuse or disrespect to the staff and the building.

We are here to help and support you all to create, enjoy and achieve!

During the half-term week in February, local young people from Ripley involved themselves in a Stencil and Graffiti art workshop run by SEND’s creative arts director, Dj Boysie and project director, Moon, at the Blend Youth Project in Derbyshire. The aim was for the young people to design and paint a mural to be mounted on the coffee bar within the project building, as well as having the experience of practicing the art of stencilism and graffiti in a safe and legal way whilst learning about the legalality of graffiti and tagging and its consequences. The project was a big success with all persons involved having input into the design of the mural and very eager for SEND to return to Blend in the near future for further music and art workshops.

Below are a series of photos taken during the week and a video montage of the whole week

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The films below were produced as part of a collaborative project between St Stephen’s C of E Primary in Sneinton and SEND.  The project was based on a book the year 6 class were studying called ‘Way Home’ and the children were taught how to use Ableton Live to create a soundtrack storyboard to the book where they explored their emotional reaction using a variety of senses.
The soundtrack they produced was arranged together with an edited video recording of the book.
The children were also involved in a stencil graffiti workshop where they painted 5 pictures taken from the book using stencils designed by one of SEND’s staff.

And the making of….

Big thanks to the pupils and staff of St Stephen’s for their enthusiasm and patience, especially Samina and Rebecca.

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A massive thank you to both Renewal Trust and the Area 6 Local Implementation Group who came to our aid following the burglary of our office at TRACS building in Sneinton. Damage to equipment and uninsured losses meant that our capacity to operate was severely restricted. Thanks to the funding we received we were able to replace vital equipment and get back up to working speed with the minimum of fuss, allowing us to concentrate on developing services and facilities for the community. Watch this space for future updates…