Hybrid:arts have developed vocational learning packages for some time which concentrate on the types of teaching and learning techniques that are now being recognised as crucial in dealing with the individual and their strength, these include student centred and personalised learning that uses ground breaking digitised learning plans and e portfolios.

Hybrid:arts will continue and develop the service we currently provide to Warwickshire LA, through schools and other organisations. We plan to take this service forward to the future by working in collaboration with the schools consortia in the development and delivery of the new Diplomas through providing a simulated work environment for additional and specialised learning, extended projects, and general curriculum enrichment. Alongside this exciting vocational applied learning we anticipate an involvement in the delivery of the new occupational Creative and Media Apprenticeships. The Apprenticeships are designed to fill the gaps for those not accommodated by current educational training provision within the training industry.

The developing educational training climate offers Hybrid:arts the opportunity to widen its accreditation basis to include approved status by the Edexcel and NCFE awarding bodies, thus allowing us to match employers’ skills needs with the potential of the learner.

Breadth of arts delivered
Creative technology is a term we use as an umbrella for a multitude of arts activities. This includes music technology- recording and mixing, Visual Production- graphics, animation, digital imaging and video production. In visual production, to compliment the technological, software based elements in this programme there are always hands on tasks such as model making, drawing, using cameras. In music the practical activities include drumming and instrument playing, to encourage team working. Singing and rapping encourage creative writing and story telling, break dancing and street poetry support self esteem.

For disaffected students we employ learning by stealth methods to help them reach set targets. With the application of technology young people are subconsciously undertaking additional training in literacy, numeracy and decision-making. By making learning fun and learner led the whole experience helps to grow confidence. Our tutors are all practitioners in the creative industries, from freelance DJ’s / producers to graphic designers / film makers.

Our aims as a company.
Hybrid:arts has been avidly following the progression in statutory and vocational learning with the development of the Children’s Trust in Warwickshire. We hope we will be recognised as a dynamic partner be to deliver some key specialist services in partnership with the Directorate of Children, Young People and Families.
We have a regional and national reputation yet we seek stability of our workforce represented by longer-term mainstream contracts if we are to sustain the quality and breath of the services we deliver.