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FREE LOVE STREAMED CHRISTMAS ASSEMBLIES FOR ALL SCHOOLS

We’re delighted to announce two All School, All Schools #AIMHIGH20 Tour assemblies that any one can join from two of our favourite schools and which anyone is welcome to join in on

BE WARNED: We will be launching a 200 foot high cardboard rocket at the end of each session from Mr Dyson’s KS1 playground at Parklands Primary In Leeds.

These sessions are completely free and anyone is welcome to join them via YouTube, Facebook and Twitter live streams.

Any schools wishing to join via a closed Zoom link to enable classes to participate via webcam can request the Zoom log in details by emailing us at yourturn@steamco.org.uk

BE PART OF #OURXMASNO1

Yes, we’re aiming higher than high this Christmas. We want to knock Mariah Carey off the No.1 spot.

We’ve got a song, we just need a video of you singing it to put in the film to be played on TOTP on Christmas Day.

So grab your phone, click the link and sing along to ‘Come in from the cold’ - by the Commoners’ Choir, a song about how our schools and their leaders like Chris Dyson at Parklands Primary in Leeds provide food, presents, warmth and love for our children, especially at this time.

See film below of progress so far.

Info, song sheet and karaoke video here

Tuesday, December 8 - Copmanthorpe Primary, York

Hot on the heels of Headteacher Chris Dyson’s marathon Christmas bubble assemblies, and the epic weekend live streaming from stately Yorkshire Sculpture Park, STEAM Co. packed up the campervan and hit the road on a mini-UK #AimHigh20 tour!

First stop was York, where we rocked up on the playground of Copmanthorpe Primary to set up our studio and green screen much to the delight of the teachers and pupils, and parents watching from home thanks to their exclusive YouTube access!

Wednesday, December 9 - Swallownest Primary, Sheffield

We then drove to Swallownest Primary School in Sheffield. Nick delivered a masterclass in rocket making and used the building of the capsule’s nose as an analogy to remind kids to stay positive by seeing a half-filled container as not half empty, but half full! 200 delighted kids stood in their bubbles, screaming, and shouting as though facing their teen idol when the dynamite rocket ripped into the sky.

Thursday, December 10 - St Laurence Primary, Ludlow

Our last stop this leg of the #AimHigh20 tour brought things full circle, as Nick found himself on the stomping grounds of his old school and youth in Ludlow at what is now St Laurence Primary School.

In a tribute to his loving Mum and Dad, whom Mulumba had the good fortune of meeting and saying a socially distant hello to, the rocket fired here went higher than high.

A fitting metaphor for all parents and teachers out there who go beyond the call of duty to give their time, trust, and creativity to kids up and down the country.

This was only three schools and three days, but rest assured, we are looking forward to setting creativity alight in hundreds of schools next year.

NO VIRUS IS STOPPING US CONNECTING COMMUNITIES

If we can live stream from the top of a cliff in Cornwall, we can live stream an assembly from your assembly hall to your class bubbles on Zoom and out to your community via a secure YouTube link, maybe even to everyone on the internet too.

And with emergency Culture Relief Funding from HM Treasury and DCMS that’s what we’re going to do.

THE THREE GREATEST GIFTS?

They might have made scents then (geddit?), but to us Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh are a bit too old testament so we’re updating them to meet the needs of our times.

Introducing the 12 Days of (Creative) Christmas UK Tour - The 3 Greatest Gifts.

See the film here of what it looked like last time and how a Christmas telly ad from John Lewis with Sir Elton John, a train-set and a lad in Leeds helped inspire it.

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT?

There are a few options:

• LIVE FROM HERE - we can live stream a 30 minute assembly to you there from here. Using Zoom it will be beamed into all your classes, as well as family/community homes via a secure YouTube page.

• LIVE FROM THERE - we may even be able to visit your school and live stream from your hall or playground.

• ASSEMBLY - the assembly talk is a roller coaster ride of talk, films and challenges to inspire everyone.

• ACTIVITIES - we can provide resources for creative activities from rocket making to coding and inventing.

• ROCKET LAUNCHES - we’ll show how to make a paper air rocket and fire it, we’ll show you the 200 foot tall cardboard rocket we built at Parklands Primary and the film of it launching and, if we come to you, even launch a real dynamite rocket in your playground and live stream it to the community.

The session consists of:

• All School Assembly - a roller coast ride of a talk to help connect kids with their art and to help them realise it’s not just about painting, but as much to do with photography, cooking or coding, fashion or football, robots or rockets. Inspiring for kids, teachers , parents and all creative carers.

• Creative Workshops - we can provide inspiration and resources for a creative activity for every class - from the #ARTofCODING to the #ARTofINVENTING and the #ARTofIMAGINATION to the #ARTofROCKETS

• Community Rocket launch - before we say goodbye and hit the road we will launch a real dynamite powered rocket with parachute recovery system to leave the whole community buzzing like a fridge.

SPONSORS WANTED

We need your help to help make it happen as the National Lottery and Arts Council England are adding marketing support but no money this time.

We are a non-profit community enterprise and it’s a pretty hand to mouth existence, believe us. We usually request a £300 donation to stage these half day sessions and are reaching out to creative people, organisations and businesses to cover these for schools that really can’t afford it (you’ve probably read about the funding crisis in our schools).

So here’s the ask.

Will you sponsor us to deliver these half days sessions in school on this tour for £300.

Would you even consider sending a few of your team along to help on the creative activities - we promise you it’ll be one of their best days ever working with you.

If you need convincing, listen to what the Barclay employee had to say in the film above on an #ARTofCODING day on which we collaborated with Google, BT, CPC and Nesta, but more importunity what a mum and her daughter had say about the day their community came into the school.

We need session sponsors on the dates shown below and three tour sponsors, and ideally someone who can loan us a car with a tow bar like Havas and Peugeot did last year.

So sign up to sponsor this now and we’ll get your name up on the table below.

Please note that this is a provisional time table and we’re open to invitations to go anywhere so do get in touch if we appear to have missed you.

HERE’S ONE WE DID EARLIER

Check out these short films of days we’ve already run as part of the National lottery and Arts Council England support for the #ARTCONNECTS19 Festival of Creative Schools, Work and Lives