ROCK SCHOOL
Some of our work is in educational settings. Here's a few examples:
School of ROCK
We took a bunch of 10 year olds and help them learn their maths and literacy using rock music. In just one hour they wrote 3 rock classics designed to help them integrate their learning in an unforgettable way. The event was covered on National Television by BBC Breakfast News. So successful was the event that we were asked to repeat it and we are currently making a film of the approach for Teacher's TV.
Read the Press Release and what the Headmistress thought of the event
School’s Out
We were asked to provide keynote inputs to a staff development day for 300 teachers. The ambition was about applying multiple intelligences in the classroom, to reach more of the kids, more of the time. In just 30 minutes the whole audience rewrote the teaching anthem ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ and performed it on stage in a School Hall in Tunbridge Wells at 9 am in the morning, after only a cup of tea and a biscuit. No need for sex, drugs, not even two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, just pure Rock’n’Roll.
Emotional and Multiple Intelligences unplugged
Teacher's TV
We were asked to explain what teachers might learn from a greater focus on relationships, leadership and generating a classroom climate where the kids bring their minds, bodies and souls to learning. This was the Result!
Top of the flops - Failure and
Entrepreneurship
We have delivered seminars about our involvement in an entrepreneurial attempt to fly cult punk rocker John Otway around the World on a record breaking tour to rival classic movie rockumentaries such as 'Spinal Tap' and 'The Blues Brothers'. An overview of the seminar delivered for students is attached here. There are many transferable lessons for entrepreneurs and people trying to make new things happen at work. More about the tour here.
John Otway's most famous failures are captured in this short video clip.
