Our Offer to Partnership Schools: Creative Workshops

Platinum Performing Arts

Through interactive workshops facilitated by trusted adults and mentors, Platinum Performing Arts provides a safe space for children to express their concerns and vulnerabilities related to:

• Gang affiliation
• Knife and gun crime
• The negative and positive effects of social media in this context

Each session incorporates a creative art form – addressing the lack of arts and humanities in public schools – such as spoken word, drama, street dance, and role play. Children will be given, or can bring, scenarios they have encountered or might encounter. They will explore the positive and negative consequences of their choices and learn how to navigate these situations to make better decisions, ultimately reducing risky behavior.

All identified C&YP will experience a creative option for 1 to 1.5 hours per week for the duration of the project. This also includes signposting and engagement in extracurricular/positive activities on weeknights and/or weekends.

The culmination of these workshops will be a final production based on the C&YP’s lived experiences, performed at the Millfield Theatre in Edmonton. This inspiring production will be free to attend and aims to reach an audience of up to 2,000 children, parents/carers, and teachers across Enfield.

Blingwear Street Arts

Utilizing trusted adults to facilitate activities, Blingwear Street Arts offers an opportunity for creative expression through art on a variety of materials for up to 30 children in each school.

Children will be supported to develop entrepreneurial skills by working in groups on a theme for their product. Groups will conduct fact-finding exercises based on street art. Following this, artists will create their own logos using lettering and characters for their “Blingwear,” which will be applied to t-shirts, bags, caps, and canvases.

These activities build confidence and decision-making skills from conception through to the final product. Examples of some of the artwork created may even be exhibited at the Millfield Theatre during the Platinum Performing Arts final showcase performances.

Outreach Element: Targeting Hotspot Areas

The British DJ and MC Academy, with trusted adult facilitators, will provide sessions for C&YP to express themselves through lyrical work, track production, and technical skills. This will culminate in the creation of a radio station presented by children for children, promoting self-esteem and a sense of self.

C&YP will be actively involved in creating the studio, setting up the station on a secure and firmly moderated platform, playing their own tracks, and participating in podcasts on current matters that mean the most to children and young people in Enfield.

We are specifically targeting six hotspot areas for this outreach:

• Weirdale Avenue, Edmonton
• Edmonton Green
• Klinger Estate
• Bounces Road
• Fore Street
• Baxter Road

Our Learning & Approach

Children and young people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are almost six times more likely to underachieve at age 15 than their more advantaged peers, highlighting a strong intergenerational transmission of educational disparity. Such inequities don’t just appear at age 15, nor do they end there.

Our new learning-focused project, built upon the insights from our Year 3 pilot phase, directly addresses this educational disparity, specifically targeting Black, Brown, and Bulgarian/Roma C&YP. Quality early intervention childhood education and care (ECEC), when delivered by qualified, trusted adults with lived experience over a sustained period, has proven to be a major contributor to equity for C&YP from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.

To further this goal, we also deliver six-week STEM intervention workshops with a significant focus on English Language skills and maths for C&YP.

Contact Us

For any enquiries about the “Dream, Believe, Succeed” project, please contact Trevor at Trevor@Edmontoncommunitypartnership.org.