Creative Partnerships
Creative Partnerships is the Government's flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of young people across England, raising their aspirations and achievements, and opening up more opportunities for their futures.
We foster innovative, long-term partnerships between schools and creative professionals, including architects, scientists, multimedia developers and artists. These partnerships inspire young people, teachers and creative professionals to challenge how they work and experiment with new ideas. They help bring the curriculum to life, providing new ways for students to engage with subjects and to develop increased motivation for learning.
Through Creative Partnerships, young people develop the skills they need to perform well not only in exams and extra-curricular activities, but also in the workplace.
The Creative Partnerships approach 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 based on the needs of the school and its pupils
· 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
Creative Partnerships programmes are available to maintained schools from Key Stages 1–4. There are three strands of programme, with different levels of engagement: Enquiry Schools, Change Schools and Schools of Creativity.
Enquiry Schools
The Enquiry Schools programme takes place over a period of one year, enabling schools to explore how creative teaching and learning can enhance their practice. An Enquiry School decides on a specific focus for their programme that may be related to a challenge they face or a need in their school improvement plan. This area of investigation is captured in an enquiry question that threads through their project and is explored through collaborative activity between creative practitioners, teachers and young people. This mix of professionals means that projects can be designed to appeal to a broad range of interests and learning styles.
Creative Partnerships starts from the belief that teaching is fundamentally a creative profession and that teachers are well accustomed to finding creative solutions to complex challenges. By pairing the complementary skills of creative practitioners and teachers, Creative Partnerships helps to liberate the creativity of everyone involved, so that fresh and engaging approaches to teaching and learning are developed through collaborative processes.
Participants in the Enquiry Schools programme have a significant opportunity to reflect deeply on creativity and learning, and to re-evaluate their practice in light of this. The experience of Creative Partnerships programmes has provided evidence and case studies that reflect creative learning, and with the right challenge, support and expertise, significant change can happen for individuals as a result.
If your school may be interested in the Enquiry Schools programme, please email info@future-creative.org or call 0845 200 4628 for further information.
For further information about Creative Partnerships:
http://www.creative-partnerships.com/es
Change Schools
The Change Schools programme engages schools in an intensive programme for up to three years (subject to funding), that supports the creative development of the whole school. The Change Schools programme builds on Creative Partnerships’ current practice to bring about sustainable change in approaches to teaching and learning, and enables schools to become effective creative learning environments. Schools recruited to the programme demonstrate a commitment to putting creativity at the heart of their improvement plans and to educating children and young people for a creative future.
Creative Partnerships starts from the belief that teaching is fundamentally a creative profession and that teachers are well-accustomed to finding creative solutions to complex challenges. By pairing the complementary skills of creative practitioners and teachers, Creative Partnerships helps to liberate the creativity of everyone involved so that fresh and engaging approaches to teaching and learning are developed through collaborative processes.
Change Schools are encouraged to explore in depth how they are developing the conditions where creativity can thrive. They look at:
· the role of leaders in developing a creative school
· how the curriculum is planned and organised
· the ways in which teachers teach and learn creatively
· the ways in which children are encouraged to learn creatively
· how spaces and other resources are used
· the role of external partners, especially from the creative and cultural sector, and how they are involved in the life of the school
The pace of change is different in every school and is shaped by a variety of influences and demands. Change Schools projects sometimes result in rapid and dramatic changes in a school’s culture and a complete re-working of its ethos. More commonly, the changes are gradual, building over time to an embedded approach.
If your school may be interested in the Change Schools programme, please email info@future-creative.org or call 0845 200 4628 for further information.
For further information about Creative Partnerships:
http://www.creative-partnerships.com/cs
Schools of Creativity
The Schools of Creativity programme builds on the best of Creative Partnerships’ current practice. It enables a select group of outstanding schools to engage in cutting-edge research and innovative outreach with other schools. The programme harnesses these schools’ commitment to creativity and offers them a new role, based around innovation, leadership and influence.
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. The first cohort of 30 Schools of Creativity (as at July 2008) includes nursery, primary, secondary and special schools. They are expected to hold the designation for three years.
Brockhill Park Performing Arts College in Hythe, Kent has been selected as one of the Schools of Creativity.
For further information about Creative Partnerships:
http://www.creative-partnerships.com/soc