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Albert's Brain

Background

The Learning Partnership.com CIC (TLP) and its partner organisations in this project have been at the forefront of the delivery of brain friendly learning to early years, primary and secondary school learners in the UK for the last several decades. Following the conversion of TLP into a not for profit organisation at the start of 2006, this group began the planning of a national program of engagement and change within the learning community in the UK.

During a series of meetings in August 2006, the Royal Albert Hall (RAH) Education Manager, Alastair Tallon, and its deputy CEO Heather Walker explained to team that the RAH wishes to extend its educational programme to include a focus on more long-term, value-added events that create a sustainable impact on attendees. As the remit of the RAH from an educational perspective is to engage with both the arts and the sciences, the goals of the team to teach brain friendly learning awareness through high impact arts orientated events seemed to be a perfect fit.

As discussions progressed the concept of Albert’s Brain was formed, with the RAH event sitting at the centre of a national programme to bring the science of brain functionality into an arts based experience to help children and teachers understand their brains better, and how to make the best use of them in the classroom and in their future learning.

Concept

Combining the skills and assets of the RAH, TLP, Creative Arts Net, Sound Strategies and The Roundtable Foundation, we propose a large scale, intensive, interactive and relevant learning experience looking at the functioning of the brain and creating a better understanding as to how best we can utilise its properties and maximise its capacity for learning and life in a contemporary context. Albert’s Brain will be aimed at primary and secondary school students and will explain how our new appreciation of brain functioning has major implications for personalised learning. In each of the three delivery formats the experience for the school, teacher and learner will follow similar pathways bringing a sustained, holistic experience to their respective learning.

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