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5.8.7 EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS<br />
All our programmes will be specifically planned<br />
to ensure that where there is an appropriate<br />
application for children and youth that this will<br />
be exploited to the full. From Early Years to Third<br />
Level we will ensure that no demographic is<br />
excluded. Dedicated members of the Galway<br />
2020 team will have specific experience, training<br />
and responsibility to deliver this priority. We are<br />
guided in our work with children and youth by the<br />
tenet that the best cultural experiences involve<br />
making and doing as well as looking and listening.<br />
Education and Schools Projects<br />
Over the last 12 months Galway 2020 has placed<br />
a special emphasis on developing projects which<br />
will facilitate participation by students across<br />
primary secondary and third level educational<br />
institutions. THE IMMERSIVE CLASSROOM p59<br />
will see students across Ireland combine digital<br />
literacy skills and creative thinking to create art<br />
using virtual and augmented reality mediums. The<br />
National University of Ireland Galway has designed<br />
a full programme of independent projects,<br />
festivals, conferences and outreach activities that<br />
will be rolled out across their campus in 2020.<br />
Children and Youth Projects<br />
An additional suite of projects have been<br />
specifically designed for children and youth<br />
audiences in out of school environments.<br />
HY BRASIL p58 will see children across Galway<br />
create a new society and a new island engineered<br />
by the imagination of our children. HOPE IT<br />
RAINS p34 will be a year-long celebration of the<br />
rain with rain dances, rain based playgrounds<br />
and interactive rain projects for children<br />
taking place across Galway. AN ARTIST IN<br />
EVERY PLACE p32 and SMALL TOWNS/BIG<br />
IDEAS p34, two of our widespread community<br />
programmes, will have specific projects<br />
designed with and for children and youth both<br />
in schools and as extra-curricular projects.<br />
IMMERSIVE CLASSROOM p59<br />
This project will develop bespoke microcurricular<br />
digital and artistic programmes to<br />
target increased digital literacy in schools using<br />
immersive technologies. Interaction is the key to<br />
any digital experience and the goal is to augment<br />
students’ engagement with digital technology<br />
throughout Ireland and Europe. Students will<br />
cultivate a host of sustainable digital skills where<br />
they will design and create culturally significant<br />
immersive experiences inspired by their lives,<br />
language and landscape. Training courses will be<br />
developed for teachers working in classrooms<br />
and an online environment with students. The<br />
project will develop and integrate immersive<br />
technologies into teaching and learning activities<br />
and will culminate in 2020 with an international<br />
immersive world's exhibition and symposium.<br />
SYM-PHONIC <strong>WAVES</strong> p59<br />
This project will create a sustainable music<br />
education legacy for young people in Galway<br />
by developing a new Western Symphonic Youth<br />
Orchestra (WSYO), linking with three established<br />
youth orchestras in Germany, Finland and<br />
Scotland and a professional orchestra in Ireland,<br />
up-skilling music teachers through an online<br />
continuing professional development programme,<br />
hosting an international competition for new<br />
works and culminating in a series of large scale<br />
performances and recordings by WSYO together<br />
with European partner orchestras and choirs.<br />
Institutional Involvement<br />
We are already working with The Department of<br />
Education and Teacher Centres in our region to<br />
maximise the impact of our work with children.<br />
We are particularly aware of the need to offer<br />
regional leadership with the Implementation<br />
Body of The Arts and Education Charter, a<br />
recent national initiative by The Departments<br />
of Arts and Education with the Arts Council.<br />
Our approach to provision for children and<br />
youth is in synch with the Cultural Strategy.<br />
Training and Child Protection<br />
All artists and Galway 2020 team members<br />
who will work with children and youth will<br />
have special training to ensure that they have<br />
appropriate pedagogical and communication<br />
skills for their work. They will also be required<br />
to undergo police vetting procedures. The<br />
highest standards of Child Protection will be<br />
assured in our Child Protection Guidelines.<br />
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