Project :: AMU@Durham

Durham/Sunderland

Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland operates over a large geographical area, covering urban and rural schools. It takes 2 hours to travel from Wearhead Primary School (35 pupils), overlooking the rolling green landscape of County Durham, to Bexhill Primary School (335 pupils) located in the heart of an urban landscape in Sunderland.

Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland has been working since 2002 with cultural sector partners and schools to find new ways to enhance, diversify and enrich learning in the classroom. We aim to deliver a research-focused programme of work through partnerships and collaborations between our partner schools and the cultural sector that extends creative learning, develops new knowledge and brokers new collaborations and cultural production within school settings across Durham and Sunderland.

The Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland programme has been driven by research and developed through continuous learning and consultation. A key priority for the programme has been the development of long-term partnership relationships that develop intensive work with groups of young people, an emphasis on involving teachers in the planning and delivery team and a commitment to delivering high quality results in relation to brokerage/curation, collaborative practice and programme content/outcomes.

The Creativity Wheel
Assessing Creative Development: A Teacher's resource from Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland

This framework will be of use and interest to schools that are in the process of developing creative learning and teaching across the curriculum, and contributes to assessment for learning and personalised learning. The Creativity Wheel assists teachers in tailoring their teaching towards pupil improvement, involvement and motivation, in addition to enabling individual, class and whole school self assessment of creativity and creative learning. Find out more about the Creativity Wheel now

The Change Schools Programme - an opportunity for sustainable and creative change

The Change School programme is one of three new Creative Partnerships School Programmes that will be launched in 2008. It will enable schools to enter into a three-year partnership arrangement that can radically transform the ways in which the school operates, placing creativity at the heart of its ethos and operation.

In 2008 Creative Partnerships will be recruiting 850 schools to the Change School Programme. Please use the links below for the prospectus, application form and FAQ's for the Change School programme with Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland.

Prospectus

Application

FAQs