Ace CraftWorks
is a collective of six members: Rita Gupta, coordinator; Lucho
Corrales, treasurer; Mary Clinch, secretary; and four management
committee members.
Rita Gupta
Qualifications
Post Graduate
Certificate of Education
Bachelor of Arts
Degree
NVQ Level III in
Information, Advice & Guidance
City & Guilds
585 in Carpentry & Joinery
Diploma of
Higher Education (textiles)
NVQ level III in
Business planning
In-house
training
Connexions:
child protection, counselling, raising achievement through
self-esteem, working with young people in crisis
William Glasser
Institute: reality therapy
IAG partnership:
understanding and measuring ‘soft outcomes’, funding for learning
Youth Education:
ASDAN Key Skills development, certificate for adult learner support
level II: working in the sector
City of Bristol
College: mentoring skills
Training
Exchange: project management
Black
Development Agency: diversity awareness
St. Johns
Ambulance: paediatric first aid
Association of
Teachers and Lecturers: coping with challenging behaviour
Relevant
experience
Over the past
ten years, Rita has designed and delivered educational workshops to
a diverse range of Bristol based agencies and groups which include:
Black Swan Arts
Colton’s Primary
School
Youth Education
Service
Christchurch
Primary School after School Club
Bristol
Community Education
Bristol Museums
& Art Gallery
Youth Offending
Team
CSV (Community
Voluntary Services)
WoodCraft Folk
Connexions West
of England
One in Eight
(mental health project)
Dhek Bhal (Asian
women’s project)
The Park Local
Opportunity Centre
HWV (Hartcliffe
and Withywood Ventureres)
Easton Community
Centre Elderly Asian Group
Avon & Somerset
Constabulary
Easton Community
Children’s Centre
Filton College’s
Lifelong Learning Department
Silai for Skills
(teenage girls’ project)
Florence Brown
Special Needs School
Asian Arts
Agency
Fairbridge West
Southmead Youth
Centre
Fairfield School
Lucho Corrales
Qualifications
Graduate Teacher
Training Programme
Bachelor of
Economics
Bachelor of
Science (Marine Biology)
Relevant
experience
Since arriving
in the U.K a year ago, Lucho has been busy acquainting himself with
the National Curriculum requirements for maths and science which he
has found useful in his job teaching maths and science in a busy
Bristol secondary school. Patience and an easy going outlook have
enabled Lucho to cope with the constant pressure of working with a
high volume of pupils with challenging behaviour.
Lucho has also
been employed by Barnardos, the children’s charity, as a maths and
science tutor at Erondu (Supplementary school for children of
Afro-Caribbean heritage).
In Australia,
Lucho held the post of research and training officer with South
Australia Science Centre. He supported local secondary schools in
developing and delivering science based projects.
Lucho’s previous
post was as an outreach tutor attached to a local community centre,
teaching basic skills (numeracy and literacy) to excluded children
and their families.
In Chile (his
country of origin), Lucho worked closely with fishing communities on
regeneration projects, exploring viable methods of ecological and
economic sustainability.
