How the Schools of Creativity programme works

As well as developing innovative creative programmes in their own schools, Schools of Creativity provide leadership and support to a local network of schools and work at national level as an innovative and influential peer group that contributes to the development of teaching and learning.

They do this by:

  • developing practice - transforming their schools through cutting-edge programmes and research within and across Schools of Creativity
  • influencing practice - helping to transform other schools through innovative dissemination and partnership work with other schools
  • leading practice - helping to transform the education system through a national network and a strategic role in the new national organisation, Creativity, Culture and Education, which manages the Creative Partnerships programme.

The Creative Partnerships approach to developing a creative programme is distinctive:

  • it starts with the school improvement plan - linking programme development closely with priorities identified by the school
  • it makes time for proper in-depth planning to ensure programmes are relevant and needs based
  • it facilitates processes where young people, teachers and practitioners can work together as co-constructors of learning
  • it brokers and supports long-term relationships between young people, teachers and creative practitioners
  • it supports in-depth evaluation and reflection, leading to sustainable and embedded practice

The Schools of Creativity programme will develop innovative practice that might relate to:

  • the role of leaders in developing a creative school and creative approaches to school leadership
  • reforming and restructuring the curriculum
  • the role of creativity in raising standards
  • the personalised learning agenda and pupil voice
  • the ways in which school staff teach and learn creatively
  • the ways in which children are encouraged to learn creatively
  • the ways in which spaces and other resources are used
  • the ways in which external partners, especially from the creative and cultural sector, are involved in the life of the school
  • sharing and developing practice across a network of schools
  • family learning and community development - eg putting the creative school at the heart of the community

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