creative curriculum

Constructive demolition

Dramatic urban changes were used by Deansfield Comprehensive School to develop a curriculum around design and regeneration that inspired and empowered students. The demolition of nine blocks of sixties flats close to the school was seen as a significant opportunity to explore how the built environment is changing and the impact of choices on all members of the community. Pupils were intrigued about how the 12 acre site would be developed and this became a focal point for creative coursework involving around 400 young people and their families.

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Learning: creative approaches that raise standards

In brief - the main points from a recent Ofsted report on creative learning. Recommendations include that in all schools pupils should be encouraged to ask questions, hypothesise and share their ideas.

Schools in Wales love making movies

Pupils at St Therese’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Port Talbot and Nottage Primary School, Porthcawl are becoming writers, directors, special effects creators, animators and editors of their own movies, thanks to a six week course in Movie Making.

in the latest issue

Film for thought

We see thousands of moving images every day – not just at home on TV, but increasingly on train TVs, bus TVs and moving adverts. But flm deserves attention, says Sabrina Broadbent, through Filmclub.org – an online community of after-school flm screening clubs funded by the DCSF.

Media spies

We’re constantly bombarded with media images, but can children able to evaluate them critically? Kym Stewart shares the ‘media spies’ topic she has used with two classes in Canada – to help children uncover what advertisers are really saying.

Fringe theatre

The rewards of the performing arts can’t be measured in exams – but they can change the lives of children with special needs, says Rebecca Patterson. She observed dance teacher Ann Thornton at Heaton school to see what she could learn.

Freedom to speak

Amid terror that our young people are growing up incapable of articulating themselves, the Rose review insists that teachers prioritise speech and drama. In this year eight -level cross-curriculum project pack, Kerrie Sharron shares how she prepared her class for Speakout Challenge - a speech competition for London and Essex schools.

essential reading

50 Cooperative Learning Activities

This book has been designedspecifically to engage and motivateprimary and secondary schoolstudents to think ‘outside the box’,to create new ideas and to havefun while learning.

100 Ideas For Teaching Personal Social and Emotional Development

This book provides a practical,dip-in resource to help earlyyears practitioners meet therequirements of the Personal,Social and Emotional area of theEYFS framework.

100 Ideas for Teaching Creative Development

Focusing on creative development theauthor provides one hundred practical and inspiring ideas foruse in the education setting.

A Writing Box of Ideas

A Writing Box of Ideas is designedfor early primary school students.

in the latest issue

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Thinking about writing.
School of rock!
Lured into learning.
Focus on Design.
NEW e-learning section.
Cross Curriculum Project Plan: Making your own country.

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