Harold Raitt

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Community, communications, creativity, education @ SeeHearStudio Ltd
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United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Harold Raitt

I have extensive experience across education and communications (including a BAFTA nomination for my filmmaking and digital media work at the National Theatre).Career highlights include:• Introducing major pedagogical improvements to the programmes of Speaking & Listening education offered by the Centre for Speech and Debate at the English-Speaking Union.• Being nominated (alongside the production team which I formed and led) for a BAFTA 🎥 🖥 for 'Interactive Creative Contribution' for the Online Tour of the National Theatre in 2009.• Creating the 'Up for Debate' programme 💬 📘🎥🎓for the PiXL Schools Group in collaboration with the Noisy Classroom.• Developing and delivering a range of exciting education projects under my own 'SeeHearTeach' and 'SeeHearDiscover' brands. This includes the popular ‘Curriculum for Excellence: Streamlined’ definitive editions of Scotland’s national curriculum 📚, which use innovative graphic design to make curriculum documentation hugely more accessible for Scotland’s teachers. • Live TV and broadcast education work includes ‘Newsroom in a Day’ (soon to relaunch as ‘NewsAngle: Live’) and the 'SeeHearVote' election debates livestreamed by young people in Croydon North and St Helen's North during the 2017 General Election.• Responding to the Covid crisis in March 2020 to June 2021 by relaunching a B2C wine 🍷 eCommerce site for Scotland’s main wine wholesaler. This simultaneously helped rejuvenate Cockburn of Leith, Scotland’s oldest and proudest wine brand. As well as strategic Comms work, I also supervised and co-delivered in-house web development and design work. This included a major rebrand of Cockburns Vintage Claret and a Christmas 2020 off-sales campaign that broke all previous records even outside of the pandemic. • Project lead and main author on a new holistic communications strategy for Community Enterprise, a charity and associated trading arm including Bold Studio. This ongoing work includes external and internal comms, plus easy-to-use staff handbooks, style guides and templates.• Singing under conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez and Daniel Harding as a tenor with the London Symphony Chorus.• PRINCE2®-qualified Project Management PractitionerStrengths: Communications strategy, filmmaking, digital media production, integrated copywriting and graphic design, education curriculum development, education workshop leading, education resource creation, singing, musical transcription and arranging, dramaturgy and public speaking training.

Harold Raitt's Current Company Details
SeeHearStudio Ltd

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Community, communications, creativity, education
Harold Raitt Work Experience Details
  • Seehearstudio Ltd
    Director
    Seehearstudio Ltd Jan 2014 - Present
    Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom
    SeeHearTeach (https://seehearteach.com): Developing and delivering high-quality video, online resources, books and CPD/L to share ideas about education and improve teaching across the UK and around the world. Teacher training courses include 'Video & Podcasting for Educators', 'Debate v Discussion', 'Breaking News! Using news in the classroom' and 'Theatre of Teaching'™. Publishing work includes the highly successful 'Curriculum for Excellence: Streamlined' series of books, the most accurate and accessible guides to the National Curriculum in Scotland's schools.SeeHearDiscover: Creating and delivering Learning Events for pupils in primary and secondary schools across the world. Rigorous, engaging and cross-curricular programmes which include Newsroom in a Day, The Great Albion General Election, and the SeeHearVote project empowering young people to livestream election debates from Croydon North and St Helen's North during the 2017 General Election.
  • The Noisy Classroom
    Curriculum & Communications Consultant
    The Noisy Classroom Sep 2010 - Present
    My association with the Noisy Classroom dates back to 2010, but over recent years my role has formalised into regular part-time consultancy in the following areas:• Curriculum: Creation of rigorous and exciting resources for teachers and pupils in secondary schools, most notably all the schemes of work and support materials for our major 'Up for Debate' collaboration with the PiXL Schools Group• Digital: Filmmaking and website development, including https://noisyclassroom.com and https://upfordebate.com (including several hours of paywalled video content)• Communications: Wider consultancy on marketing, branding and social media, including delivering training to upskill other members of the Noisy Classroom team with essential packages such as InDesign and WordPress.
  • Community Enterprise
    Communications Lead
    Community Enterprise Sep 2021 - May 2022
    Scotland, United Kingdom
    Leading on the communication of key messages about Community Enterprise, one of Scotland's leading social enterprise and community development consultancy and support providers. Also taking the organisation's impact measurement to the next level, enhancing data and story capture systems to articulate the difference we are making to Scotland's communities in the short, medium and long terms.
  • Wine Importers
    Marketing And Communications Manager
    Wine Importers Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
    Livingston, West Lothian, United Kingdom
  • Self-Employed
    Filmmaker, Digital Producer And Education Practitioner
    Self-Employed Jan 2010 - Dec 2013
    Filmmaking, digital development and education work for a range of clients including:• Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Online Tour and promotional films)• Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships (Creative projects in schools in Thameside, Essex)• Noisy Classroom (Filmmaking, brand development and debate/oracy workshop leading)• Arts organisations including Soho Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, London Symphony Chorus and Birmingham Stage Company (Promotional films and archive recordings)
  • National Theatre
    Digital Projects Producer, National Theatre Education And Marketing Departments
    National Theatre Mar 2007 - Dec 2009
    Devising and delivering ambitious new programmes of digital education activity, including a major Online Tour of the theatre (nominated for a BAFTA for 'Interactive Creative Contribution' in 2007), series of documentary shorts (on shows such as WAR HORSE, MOTHER COURAGE and Katie Mitchell's video shows) and play>now a pilot season of magazine format 8-10 minute films on every play in the summer 2009 rep.
  • The English-Speaking Union
    Debates And Education Officer
    The English-Speaking Union Aug 2004 - Mar 2007
    Developing new methods for using debate and dynamic Speaking & Listening activities as a core means of curriculum delivery in primary and secondary schools. Delivering these through teacher training, pupil workshops and series of print and audio-visual resources. Management and delivery of major programmes including the London Debate Challenge and Schools Mace National Debating Competition. Co-created the Great Shakespeare Debate with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Harold Raitt Education Details

  • University Of Oxford
    Philosophy, Politics And Economics
  • Stiftung Maximilianeum, Munich
    Stiftung Maximilianeum, Munich
    Exchange Studentship
  • Bishop Luffa C Of E Comprehensive School, Chichester
    Bishop Luffa C Of E Comprehensive School, Chichester

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Harold Raitt works for Seehearstudio Ltd

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Harold Raitt's current role is Community, communications, creativity, education.

What schools did Harold Raitt attend?

Harold Raitt attended University Of Oxford, Stiftung Maximilianeum, Munich, Bishop Luffa C Of E Comprehensive School, Chichester.

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