What is Creative Partnerships?
Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creativity project for schools and young people, funded by the department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education and Skills.
Set up in 2003, it is now working with around 2500 schools and has made links with 7000 more throughout England focusing in areas of significant economic deprivation.
Creative Partnerships aims to:
- raise the aspirations and achievements of young people and equip them with skills for life
- develop the abilities of teachers and their capacity to work with creative professionals
- encourage the continued growth of the creative industries
It achieves its aims by unlocking the creativity of learners and educators, and developing creative approaches to teaching all aspects of the curriculum.
‘In a new report from Ofsted, inspectors say that the experience of working alongside creative practitioners helped pupils develop personal and social skills,
encouraged them to be more risk-taking and had
beneficial effect on their literacy, numeracy and ICT skills.’
The Guardian 03/10/06
On working in partnership with young people from Aveley school in Essex, Brian Connolly Creative Director from Saatchi & Saatchi comments; ‘The quality of their concepts was amazing, their visual ideas were striking and they were using film terminology so confidently.’
