Promoting creativity
Our work is designed to increase young people’s enjoyment of education, and opportunities for them to express themselves. But we also believe that this will give them the kind of skills that employers really need: individuals who communicate well and persist to succeed.
Ofsted inspected Creative Partnerships in 2006. They found that "most Creative Partnerships programmes were effective in developing in pupils some attributes of creative people: an ability to improvise, take risks, show resilience, and collaborate with others". These are the skills that not only make young people more successful in their chosen field, and, for those that wish to, more able to work in a creative industry.
The report also found that good personal and social skills were developed by most pupils involved in Creative Partnerships programmes; these included effective collaboration between pupils and maturity in their relationships with adults.
Ofsted found that for a small but significant number of pupils a Creative Partnerships programme represented a fresh start. In particular, opportunities to work directly in the creative industries motivated pupils and inspired high aspirations for the future.
We believe that the curriculum and testing regimes must support a wide range of skill development, not least those abilities described by business as being vital to their success.