The REACH strategy aims to address critical issues such as:

• Building consistency, balance and sharing of quality teacher practice across the FNQ Region in the Arts across allphases of learning.
• Maximising student articulation to pathways (primary-secondary-tertiary-training-employment) in the arts by Indigenous and non-Indigenous students in FNQ.
• Aligning agency programs to coincide with significant Whole of Government investment and partners in community Arts industry development.
• Maximising capacity for all school communities to engage in Arts Industry including Indigenous Arts enterprise initiatives in the FNQ region.
  
  

The REACH strategy will maximise and utilise key inputs such as:

• Existing Quality Arts Curriculum – Bound for Success, Senior Phase and P-10 Phase syllabuses, TAFE modules and certificates.• Key Arts Education teachers – Primary, Secondary and across all 5 Arts strands to implement the strategy.• Key Arts Industry and Whole of Government personnel and partners.• HR staffing allocation to support teachers to manage and administer key aspects of the strategy.• Existing Education Queensland Arts spaces and facilities.• Regional Professional Development Funding • Arts Queensland investment in Indigenous Arts centres throughout FNQ.• TAFE Queensland investment throughout FNQ• Existing Professional Arts teacher networks.• Existing FNQ and State Galleries, Performance spaces and Tertiary Institutions.

The REACH strategy targets:

• Students

The strategy aims to target Indigenous and Non-Indigenous students in urban, rural and remote centres by providing opportunities for them to participate in Arts Excellence curriculum programs and events that connect them with other REACH students, educators and industry members and artists throughout the region. The strategy aims to create a strong network between education, training and industry within Far North Queensland to support their Arts development while enrolled at their own school site whilst enabling them to build relationships and share experiences with others when involved in activities under the “REACH” banner.

• Teachers

The strategy aims to support FNQ teachers in Primary and Secondary schools in sharing, developing and maintaining excel-lence in Arts curriculum and classroom practice in a planned and strategic way. Important in this process is the identification of existing Arts 
Education success and expertise and the sharing through a parallel practise model this expertise whereby specific teachers work in classrooms alongside other teachers to build up confidence and strategies in teaching the Arts. Related to this goal is the need to renew, support and enhance the work already being done by professional Arts teacher networks.

• Wider Arts Industry and Community

Integral to this strategy is the development of relationships between schools and the wider Arts community, including tertiary and training institutions, regional Arts organizations, industry professionals, Arts practitioners and 
community arts audiences. The strategy aims to achieve this by improving communication, partnerships and opportunities for collaboration with local arts organizations and professionals, utilising Arts practitioners for Artist in Residence experiences, and increasing opportunities for celebrating and showcasing FNQ students’ successful Arts outcomes to a range of audiences.The Regional Excellence in Arts and Culture Hubs (REACH) strategy aims to engage Indigenous and non-Indigenous students across the whole of the Far North Queensland region within the Arts (Dance, Drama, Music, Media and Visual Arts) to support the development of a creative generation. The focus of the strategy is to increase consistency, balance and excellence in Arts Education delivery to Indigenous students, non-Indigenous students and teachers including all phases of learning and urban, rural and remote contexts.

The REACH strategy is designed to:

• Support Excellence in Arts teacher practice • Identify talented Arts students and improve their learning, career or tertiary arts pathways • Develop and Support the staging of excellence courses for students using an Artist in Residence model • Exhibit and Promote the successful outcomes of Arts students throughout FNQ • Disseminate a range of resources to support practical implementation of Arts in schools throughout FNQ • Build Relationships, Connections and Articulate linkages between schools, arts industry, artists and Whole of Government organizations to enrich learning outcomes for students The strategy complements and extends but in no way replaces the specific opportunities and unique programs already fully developed and recognised in individual schools throughout the region. Simultaneously though, the strategy aims to engage and support excellence in the Arts in schools who have not been able to build and sustain programs excellence and extension programs for students to access.

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