See Me See You

See Me See You is a community relations programme for schools. The programme uses creative methods to explore difficult issues using areas and targets within the Curriculum.

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Poetry Competition

This year the Verbal Arts Centre hosted the Derry City poetry Competition. This programme is a foundation level activity for children from both primary and post primary schools across the city.

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BUZZ

The BUZZ Programme is a verbal and related creative arts-based drugs and alcohol education project which is based in schools in the borough of Limavady.

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Spark

SPARK is an educational arts programme run in local schools and youth groups.

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Listen Up

Listen up is a series of concise activities tailored to specific needs in the classroom. These projects tackle specific areas of the curriculum with particular emphasis on critical and creative thinking. Some packages will be available through CYP and others can be bought directly through VAC.

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Early Years Programme

The Early Years Programme has been developed to encourage both oracy skills and community awareness for 3–7 year olds. Using storytelling and visual triggers to develop children’s stories and understanding of the world around them.  From a study at Queen’s University www.qub.ac.uk/edu/research/ created for the Office of the First Minister www.ofmdfmni.gov.uk the influence of community stereotyping can be found even in very young children from Northern Ireland. 

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Spotlight

The Verbal Arts Centre is collaborating with the WEA www.wea.org.uk to deliver an accredited performance course for young people between 16 – 21 years old.  This course starts in October and runs over two terms until March 2006 to find out more or to register your interest in this course click on (James C has a site for this project.

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