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Shine Invites

schools, their partner organisations and the young people they work with to join this growing national festival.
You can make Shine happen in your own school. Start by seeking out the talents in everyone and find creative ways to illustrate them all.
Plan your own events and celebrations and use the free Shine creative kit to help.
Celebrate during the festival week 6-10 July 2009.

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View the Shine 2008 archive web site www.shinearchive.co.uk...

Latest News...

  • Talent2Trade is focused on developing commercial design talent in students. It works through every stage of development from idea to marketable product.

    Designed to fit into a six week period T2T provides a design brief and lesson plans and a 'Product Development Journal’ for each student. The T2T journal is intended to engage the student in profit and loss, costing, budgeting and market research along with the issues of sustainability, local/global citizenship and climate change. Read on

  • Shine week 2008 hailed as a great success see the evaluation here. Over 2,500 schools and organisations took part. Around 10,000 celebratory events took place under the shine banner. Around a million young people joined in the celebrations 10% of England's young people were involved. Over 2000 talents were uploaded to the website BBC Breakfast, News 24, The Sun, The Daily Mail and regional press and media loved the Shine story. See what they said here

Shine Is...

Shine is about...


passions aptitudes abilities
ingenuity ideas

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It's a catalyst enabling every talent to come forward and helping each young person to Shine!

Read more about Shine 2009 here...

     
   
Celebrating a talent for enterprise, Peter Jones put his own money into a Dragons’ Den at Manchester Academy
Denbigh High School, Luton, one of the schools which set out to find a talent in every child
A pupil from St George’s School near Darlington learning how to make a Sand Mandala with a Tibetan monk
Hardeep Singh Kohli hosted acting workshops at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was interviewed by students from Thomas Tallis School, London
Dame Kelly Holmes met with students at the City Academy, Bristol to give them her own tips on how to shine in sport
 
In association with:
Channel 4 Creative Partnerships Talent and enterprise task force Department for children, schools and families Arts Council England