Projects

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Ben Jeans Houghton image - boy in landscape
Project: Tsu
School: Wheatley Hill Community Primary
credit: Ben Jeans Houghton
(2010)

The making of ‘TSU’ at Wheatley Hill Primary School

Area Delivery Organisation: The Centre for Creativity and Learning, University of Sunderland

Wheatley Hill Primary School in County Durham spent last year focused on the experimental learning programme ‘Mantle of the Expert’. Eager to continue the school’s development and push the boundaries of that work the school sought to commission a visual artist to spend a sustained amount of time assessing the work they were carrying out. The artist...

Teesdale Entrance

Teesdale Journey

Area Delivery Organisation: The Centre for Creativity and Learning, University of Sunderland

In an increasingly risk-averse world, how do staff inspire students to become creative, innovative, reflective and evaluative young people?

Based in the picturesque market town of Barnard Castle, Teesdale School serves a wide geographical catchment area and the individual needs of its students - wherever they live - have...

Young people working on grounds at Valley Road Community Primary

Greening the Valley

Area Delivery Organisation: The Centre for Creativity and Learning, University of Sunderland

‘Our starting point is ‘everyone is different’.’

This is the ethos of Valley Road Community Primary in Sunderland. The school described its challenges as ‘mostly those of low family aspiration and parental disengagement with education’ on application to join the Creative Partnerships Change School programme. The school began...

outdoor image from Sacriston Arts Centre project

Sacriston Arts Centre

Area Delivery Organisation: The Centre for Creativity and Learning, University of Sunderland

Sacriston Junior School is in a socially disadvantaged part of County Durham. It is a former pit village that is now isolated from the more prosperous and developed parts of Durham.

The school has approximately 180 pupils from Year 3 to Year 6 and the key point of this project is to see how creative cultural activities can help the children link...