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  • Successful and cost-effective campaigns and outreach programmes created

  • Highly-effective teaching materials developed which address national curriculum targets as well as being interactive, creative and fun

  • Innovative approaches to both primary and secondary levels

  • Projects delivered flexibly and on budget, tight timescales met

  • Tendering processes managed for creative design and photography services, integral design service supplied where appropriate

 

 

Angkor

 

This innovative programme of study for KS1 primary pupils raises awareness of how population size affects consumption. Lessons move from studying how much pupils consume in the present day back to the history of the fascinating city of Angkor in Cambodia which harnessed its water supply to grow into the largest city in the pre-industrial world. Available free over the internet, lessons foster creative thinking skills in the next generation, providing teachers with flexible, easy-to-use materials they will want to return to again and again.

 

Piloted by pupils in an inner-city London school, Angkor address NC programmes of study in: English, Maths, Geography, Science, Citizenship and Religious Education.

 

>> see teaching materials

 

 

 

Eggs, spaghetti and the Olympics

 

This workshop programme brought engineering to life for schoolchildren. A talk by the stadium's engineer was followed by a whole-school competition to select the lucky pupils who would visit the stadium. This was followed by a full-day workshop exploring structures and masterplanning, as well as finding out more about how the Olympics will work in 2012. 

 

 

 

Cambridge School Anthologies

 

Cambridge University Press commissioned Alex to write a series of books to promote best practice in the teaching of pre-20th century literature. The books combine familiar and less well-known texts with activities bringing them to life. Aimed at pupils aged 11-13, the series comprises: ‘Poems from the Past’, ‘Tales from Times Past’, ‘Drama through the Ages’ and ‘Introducing Dickens’.

 

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>> Poems from the Past

>> Tales from Times Past

>> Drama through the Ages

>> Introducing Dickens

 

   

GENE MEME

 

This collaborative project for GandA Harvie resulted in the creation of a dramatic art installation, public debate and education programme addressing the issue of rising global population. Held in the atmospheric Crypt Gallery under St Pancras Church, the art show included a wall of fifty abstract paintings by artist Gregor Harvie representing humans as a biological proliferation, and fifty elegies by Alex for societies whose drive to grow had catastrophic consequences.

 

>> see the GENE MEME elegies

 

   

 

Design Council

 

As Education Manager for the Design Council, Alex wrote ‘Design Decisions’ to encourage primary and secondary teachers to use design thinking in new areas of the curriculum. The project was undertaken by 2,000 UK schools and findings were fed into the government’s review of the curriculum. The pack won a Design Week award.

   

Design in Education Week

The Design Council developed this initiative to raise the profile of design across the UK. Co-ordaining events, seminars, product-launches, conferences and publications into a single week to highlight the value of an education in design. As part of the management team, Alex helped develop the strategy as well as presenting events in Glasgow, Cardiff and London.

 

 

 

Educational publishing at the Dome

Alex worked with educational publishers including Dorling Kindersley and Manning Partnership to create books with a broad educational intent. These ranged from the ‘Pop-up Book of the Dome’ which included environmental information aimed at eight-year-olds, to ‘My Millennium Record Book’ and ‘My Millennium Fact File’ encouraging reflection and expressive writing. Books for older students included ‘Dome’ explaining the engineering and architectural features of the Millennium Dome

 

 

 

The Green Trail

The Dome was host to the 30th Earth Day celebrations, the largest global environmental event. Thirty thousand visitors participated in environmental activities across the site. Alex wrote ‘The Green Trail’ which took the visitors around the environmental features, from the water recycling to the new foreshore for the river’s wildlife.

   

 

 

Ó alex harvie 2011