Redefining Education for all

The Curriculum of Tomorrow

14 Oct 2024

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Date
14 Oct 2024
Venue
Aviva Studios
Tickets
Standard Ticket £30, Affordable : Concessions £15, Aviva £10 Ticket.

9.30am – 3pm

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Running time: 5 Hours 30 Minutes

Accessibility features available for this event: Wheelchair Access

Join Factory International and MADE (Manchester’s Local Education Partnership) as we shape the future of education, empowering educators to create a curriculum that reflects the needs and aspirations of all young people.

The National Curriculum determines what knowledge is taught in schools, determining who and what is celebrated, represented and prioritised. Whose perspective is taught? And how do we reimagine the National Curriculum to include a more diverse range of voices and experiences?

At The Curriculum of Tomorrow we envision a future curriculum that authentically represents the diverse experiences of young people, celebrates communities and cultures and fosters critical conversations around pressing societal issues.

This professional development event offers educators a unique opportunity to enhance their practice, with a focus on transforming teaching and learning across schools and communities. Held at Aviva Studios, the event features keynote speakers, panel discussions and workshops.

Please note the event is open to anyone to come along to and we especially welcome attendance from those working in the education sector.

This event has been rescheduled from Summer 2024. Original ticket holders will be contacted about attending the new date or receiving a refund. For any queries, please contact tickets@factoryinternational.org.

Workshops

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend two workshops as part of the event. Prior to the event, you’ll receive a form to select your preferred workshops and panel discussions, ensuring a tailored and enriching experience. Read more about the workshops on offer:

The Football Beyond Borders team will deliver an engaging session grounded in thinking and feeling, demonstrating how to engage vulnerable young people and draw out a range of skills and assets within a trauma-informed environment. The session will be grounded in personal and professional reflections, FBB's founding theories, and practical tips and activities you can deliver in your interactions with young people in your setting. 

Football Beyond Borders is an education and social inclusion charity who are working to ensure every young person has a trusted adult relationship during their secondary school years. Their work is delivered nationally and throughout Greater Manchester. 

Exploring a curriculum for science in an ever-changing world. Participants will have time to consider and question the purpose of a primary science curriculum and the principles to drive curriculum curation and development.

Prof Lynne Bianchi, Director of SEERIH/Vice Dean for SREDIA: Lynne specialises in science and engineering education, with a specialism in the primary phase and student-led learning. She became Director of the SEERIH in 2014. She has a well-established profile in the areas of teaching, learning and assessment of school science and engineering, and cascades learning by working with in-service teachers.

Join Southbank Centre and Factory International as we explore how creativity can support young people to explore identity and community through creativity. Using REFRAME: Inspire Schools Project, a creative multimedia project for KS3 pupils in schools Birmingham, London and Manchester as a case study, the session will provide strategies for adapting lesson plans to be more inclusive, culturally responsive, and relevant to students’ experiences, empowering them to express themselves through various creative outlets.

This workshop will explore Shakespeare, language, rhythm and drama in a fun and practical way. This is ideal for schools wanting to grow their students’ confidence in speech and language, or simply looking for some. This interactive session is designed to assist in building self-confidence and unlocking creative and artistic abilities by using tools like sonnet-writing and performing and creating their own original poetic and lyrical based on Shakespearian raps. We will work on pronunciation and diction but also work on young peoples’ natural instincts to play, explore and have fun.

Learning Outcomes

  • Introduction to Shakespeare’s language
  • Develop communication and expression skills
  • Increase confidence and wellbeing
  • An opportunity to learn in a playful and accessible way 

Join Manchester Art Gallery’s Associate artist to explore connections between resilience skills and the creative process. The artist will introduce Art Of Resilience, a programme that uses creativity, compassion and experiential learning to help pupils to develop skills in self-regulation and self-assurance. You will take part in an activity using simple materials to playfully connect with contemporary artwork, giving you a flavour of the principles and approach we use. 

Take part in a rhythm & sound workshop exploring creative ways of reigniting engagement in the classroom. This session will be led by the Z-arts Music & Sound Facilitator who will guide you through activities that will share engaging tools and techniques, demonstrating how sound, rhythm & movement can be used to increase focus and connect with students in a playful & creative way. Within this session you will also be exploring how rhythm & sound activities can provide engaging memory tools and techniques for retention, considering how repeating information can be transformed into creative activities.

Tickets

We have a range of affordable tickets, including options from £10 for those who may need them. You can find out more about our Affordable Ticketing Policy here.

For ticketing and box office related enquiries, please contact tickets@factoryinternational.org or call 0333 322 8679 (phone lines are open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm).

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Attending the Curriculum of Tomorrow

  • Secure your ticket to access the main event programme.
  • Tickets are £30 and include admission to a keynote address, a panel discussion and two workshops per attendee.
  • Prior to the event, you’ll receive a form to select your preferred workshops and panel discussions, ensuring a tailored and enriching experience.
  • Lunch is provided as part of your ticket.

FAQs

The Curriculum of Tomorrow is open to anyone but we particularly welcome attendance from those working in the education sector.

The Creative Learning team will contact all attendees prior to the event with a form where you can list any dietary or access requirements.

Prior to the event, you’ll receive a form to select your preferred workshops and panel discussions, ensuring a tailored and enriching experience.

Got any questions?

Please contact learning@factoryinternational.org with any questions.

Access information

Our full address is Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ and the what3words is chop.feeds.chase.

You can approach Aviva Studios along Water Street (coming from Quay Street) or along Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield). Both entrances to the building have double sets of glass doors.

Once inside Aviva Studios, there is step-free access to all areas of the venue. The flooring throughout the building is smooth concrete.

The entrance to the Hall is by lift, escalator or stairs from one side of the Social beside the brick arches. There is only one escalator, and this will take you up to the Hall before the show, and will be reversed so that you can travel down at the end of the performance.

The Social has a range of seating, including those with arms and backs.

The bars in the Social and Hall Foyer have lowered accessible service points.

Our building is large. We have portable stools available to borrow if you would benefit from resting along the way during your visit.

We have wheelchair spaces and seats at standing events for all events.

There is step-free access to all areas of the venue, with lift access to the Warehouse from the Social, and lift and escalator access to the Hall from the Social.

There are accessible toilets on all public levels of our building.

Accessible toilets are located inside the main toilets space in the brick arches of the Social.

Here you’ll find a mixture of accessible cubicles with left- or right-hand transfer, towards the back of the space, as well as ambulant accessible cubicles with grab rails, as well as a Changing Places facility.

The toilets in the brick arches of the Social are split into male, female and gender neutral – all of which contain accessible cubicles. There are shared handwashing facilities in each arch – they have soap dispensers under the mirrors to your left and dryers to the right. There are separate handwashing facilities inside the accessible cubicles.

There are additional single-room accessible toilets located in both Hall Foyers, at stalls and circle level.

There are additional single-room accessible toilets located in the Warehouse Foyer.

You do not need a key to use the accessible toilets at Aviva Studios.

Assistance dogs are welcome in our building, and we can provide mats and water bowls on request, just ask a host when you arrive. We can also take care of your assistance dog if you do not want to take your dog into the performance space. Please also refer to our assistance dogs policy.

If you are bringing an assistance dog to a ticketed event, please let us know in advance by contacting access@factoryinternational.org or calling our access phone number: 0161 817 4531 (phone lines are open 10am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday).

Travel information

Aviva Studios can be approached along Water Street (coming from Quay Street) or along Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield).

The Water Street route is the quickest way to arrive at our City Square entrance.

Our closest stations are:

Salford Central station: 0.4 miles

Deansgate station and Deansgate-Castlefield tram: 0.6 miles

St Peter’s Square tram: 0.6 miles

Manchester Victoria station is approximately one mile from Aviva Studios

Manchester Piccadilly station is approximately 1.3 miles from Aviva Studios

Click on the links above to find detailed access information for each station.

By Bike

There are 40 bike parking spaces at Aviva Studios including space for two accessible bikes.

National Cycling Route 6 passes close to the venue and this TfGM webpage can help with route planning.

You can also hire bikes from on-street docking stations across the city centre. The closest docking stations to our venue are currently on Deansgate by Liverpool Road and (400m from the building) and by King Street (500m from the building). Take a look at Transport for Greater Manchester’s webpage for advice on cycle hire.

By Walking and Other Active Means

Aviva Studios can be approached along Water Street via Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield).

If you're coming from Quay Street, the safest route to avoid construction works is via the cut-through opposite Gartside Street and past Booking.com.

All footways in the surrounding area are well lit and there are appropriate crossings across all main roads.

Pedestrians with visual impairment are recommended to approach the building via Water Street, from Liverpool Road. This route has traditional carriageway and footway design with fixed street furniture which should help with navigation to the entrance.

A footbridge at Left Bank in Spinningfields provides an accessible link across the River Irwell to Salford Central station, and a further footbridge also links Aviva Studios with the Salford area of Middlewood Locks.

Free bus services stop at all city-centre stations, and near to Aviva Studios along Deansgate, Bridge St and Quay St. Buses on these free routes are wheelchair accessible. For full details of the free bus routes, please visit the TfGM website.

There is a car park approximately 0.6 miles from Aviva Studios at Water Street Car Park, New Elm Rd, Manchester, M3 4JH.

There is also a NCP car park (Manchester Spinningfields) approximately 0.5 miles away from Aviva Studios at Spinningfields, New Quay Street, Manchester, M3 3BE. It has 35 accessible bays.

There are a small number of Blue Badge spaces along Water St and Quay St. Otherwise head towards Liverpool Road, Great John St and Lower Byrom St – close to our neighbours, the Science and Industry Museum where there are a small number of additional Blue Badge spaces.

For a list of other parking bays available in the area, visit Manchester City Council website.

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