Developments for the 2007/8 academic year include:-
In Liverpool…
Alsop High School
We are supporting a cross-school programme to develop young people’s core creative and thinking skills and explore alignment between this and the piloting of 14-19 diplomas. This will bring together KS3 humanities; the development of a ‘T2- Thinking and Working Creatively’ module in Year 9, that will bring together both the ICT and Creative and Media diplomas; and a ‘business breakfast’ model of information and advice for Year 12 with particular emphasis on roles, responsibilities and entry routes into the performing arts
New Heys – a Specialist Business and Enterprise College
We will be supporting further development of the school’s innovative Enterprise Challenge Curriculum in Year 7, a programme that capitalises on the close correspondence between creativity and entrepreneurialism. This year, we will be working alongside the school to engage feeder primaries and parents with the programme and enthuse them about the benefits of creative development for young people. We will also be providing a creative change consultant who can work alongside New Heys to help embed and consolidate the school’s work with us over the past five years across all staff
On the Wirral…
Bidston Avenue Primary School
Bidston Avenue have recently focussed on enabling children to ask unusual questions, tied into a ‘Mantle of the Expert’ approach. They are now keen to extend this work to explore the application of creativity in ‘real-life’ contexts and to draw upon resources in the community around them for teaching. With the arrival of a new headteacher, we will also be providing a creative change consultant who can work alongside him to help embed and consolidate the school’s work with us over the past five years.
Thornton Hough Primary School
Thornton Hough are looking to build a cross-curricular theme-based teaching programme for Years 5 and 6, with an emphasis on developing pupils’ key skills, competencies and capabilities
Woodchurch Road Primary School
Woodchurch Road will be using Autumn term to reflect upon and consolidate their work to date. Again, we will be providing a creative change consultant, whose school-specific remit will include supporting the establishment of a cross-school Teaching and Learning for Creativity Group
West Kirby Grammar School for Girls
West Kirby are keen to map more closely the relationship between teaching and learning for creativity and attainment, with the aim that the evidence gathered will form a strong foundation for sharing and advocating their approach with others.
In Knowsley …
Blacklow Brow Primary School
In recent years, Blacklow Brow has taken a leadership role in supporting a wider network of schools around them to explore creativity and teaching for creativity. This will continue this year, with a teacher in each school being invited to follow the process of working in a new creative partnership, having identified objectives in relation to relevant strategic topics and issues
Park View Primary School
Park View will be developing a skills-based curriculum, with Creative Partnerships Merseyside brokering practitioners to work alongside teachers and children to support their teaching and learning for creativity
Halewood Arts College
Halewood will be further developing their innovative Personalised Learning Curriculum which seeks to develop the creative and thinking skills of Year 7 pupils through cross-curricular teaching, in this phase sharing their aspirations with parents, colleagues across the school and the wider local community. We will also be looking to work alongside Halewood to develop effective delivery structures for the new 14-19 diplomas and to align these with the successful Personalised Learning Curriculum
Ruffwood School
We are developing a creative maths project for Ruffwood, which will seek to encourage greater engagement and a more positive attitude towards the subject amongst pupils. As part of this, the school wish to explore the possibility of establishing a cross-curricular model that would emphasise the mathematical dimension of other subjects (e.g. its connection to business skills; life skills; modern foreign language skills)
In Sefton …
Birkdale Primary School
Following evaluation of last year’s creative learning programmes and pupil voice action research, Birkdale will be mapping teaching for creativity onto Every Child Matters outcomes and Ofsted criteria. Pupils will be further involved in decision-making about how they learn
Great Crosby RC Primary School
Great Crosby will be working with a chef to explore a range of different culture through the food they eat. Fair Trade issues will also be covered during the project.
Waterloo
Waterloo are requesting support to develop a self-sustaining framework for teachers and pupils to assess pupils’ progression in creative and thinking skills. They are also keen to explore CPD for teachers on the effective use of positive and encouraging language when communicating with pupils.
Formby High School
Building on research carried out during their 2006-2007 ‘Learning Year’, Formby High School will be developing a handbook that outlines how creativity supports the delivery of ‘outstanding’ lessons (as related to the Ofsted definition). This will be the starting point for significant curriculum change and work to chart students’ creative progression
Lander Road
Suggested by the school’s Senior Management Team in response to the area’s recent LEGI bid, with a view to piloting a bottom-up approach they hope could inform the wider LEGI programme as it develops, Lander Road are looking to establish a transferable model that will equip primary schools to play an active role in developing an enterprise culture amongst pupils, school staff, parents and the wider community
In St Helen’s …
Allanson Street Primary School
Taking ‘real-life contexts for applying creativity’ as their starting point, Allanson Street will be working with us on a project in which pupils will lead on promoting the school’s new ICT suite to groups in the local community
Legh Vale Primary School
We will be working with Legh Vale to map Every Child Matters outcomes onto the curriculum, explore diversity issues across the school and develop creative ICT learning programmes
Thatto Heath Community Primary School
This project will be confirmed after discussion with the school in September. However, pupil voice, behaviour management and a sense of place and spaces have been discussed as potential areas to focus on. We will also be providing Thatto Heath with a creative change consultant who can work alongside the school to help embed and consolidate their work with us over the past five years.
St Cuthbert’s RC High School
An initial INSET programme- equipping teaching staff across the school to draw together the strands of creativity and enterprise and embed them across the curriculum- will be followed up by more intensive work inspired by the workings of the music industry. While St Cuthbert’s are not at present due to pilot a 14-19 diploma, they are nonetheless interested in seeing how this programme of work might relate to delivery of the T2 and T4 modules of the Creative and Media diploma
