Projects

Involving Children and Parents in Curriculum Change

Area Delivery Organisation: Curious Minds – Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral, West Cheshire, Halton

School - Christ Church, CE Primary School, Sefton, Liverpool.

Enquiry Question
What is creativity in learning and what skills can be identified for framing a creative curriculum?

Christ Church asked children what kind of creative partners they would like to work with and Year 6 children devised a series of questions for interviews. as creatives...

Year 7 at Wallasey School on the Wirral take a Mathematical Passage to India

Area Delivery Organisation: Curious Minds – Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral, West Cheshire, Halton

Wallasey School is a Creative Partnerships Change School on the Wirral with 1,100 students aged 11-18. Working with the government’s flagship creative learning programme, Creative Partnerships, Wallasey School has been investigating creative approaches to teaching and learning with a focus on thematic delivery of the curriculum. In light of this...

Time Detectives at Egremont Primary School - Wirral

Area Delivery Organisation: Curious Minds – Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral, West Cheshire, Halton

Local history was brought to life in one North West school's Time Detectives Enquiry Schools project.

Staff, authors and theatre practitioners at Egrement Primary School in the Wirral worked with Key Stage 1 children to explore how personal, social and emotional experience could have a positive impact on standards in writing.

Working with...

The Crusaders -Liverpool

Area Delivery Organisation: Curious Minds – Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral, West Cheshire, Halton

Enquiry Question:

How can boys develop their writing skills by expressing their feelings and emotions through digital media?

The De La Salle Humanities College had a three-fold enquiry:

• to develop boys' writing skills;

• to enable boys to express their feelings and explore who they are and who they want to be - through fantasy and...