Comino
St Gabriel’s is fortunate to be partnered with the North West Comino Creative Consortium.
NWCCC is a Community of Practice funded by Comino Foundation to work with schools across Greater Manchester.
They are committed to helping young people experience learning in settings that link the curriculum to real life practice. Through real-life learning, students experience learning opportunities in industry and through cultural partnerships. Our collaboration with Comino and other partner schools has enabled us to enrich our students’ curriculum experiences and provide opportunities in the creative and digital industries.
Our partnership work has included:
What does it Mean to be Human? – In this project students were able to engage with a range of mentors through leaders from the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights and poets from Manchester’s Young Identity poetry collective. Students were involved in a series of interactive poetry and performance workshops. Students wrote poems and performed their poems at a Human Rights Event at Bury Met.
Summer schools at McCann Advertising Agency – This project gave students the opportunity to experience first-hand how it feels to work in the creative communications industry at their Cheshire site
Clive Booth Photography Project – The internationally renowned photographer Clive Booth worked with our GCSE photographers on a brief of ‘Identity’. Clive led a worshop with students in the classroom and this helped inform their project which was critiqued later in the year by Clive.
Poetry in Residence – Working closely with the Manchester Poetry Library & MMU, students worked with post-graduate creative writing students and their English Teachers. Following a trip to the cultural partner of the National Football Museum, students produced a body of work that was displayed in the museum.
From Public Life to School Life – Former MP James Frith delivered a project to students which then involved a project in which devised a campaign around the subject of voting. Students then visited London to see Westminster in action.
