Maths Workshops for Secondary Schools – Socially Distanced and Live Streamed Workshop Options

10th Apr 2021News, School Workshops, Teacher CPD
Maths Workshops for Secondary Schools – Socially Distanced and Live Streamed Workshop Options

Our Creative Maths workshops for secondary schools have been carefully designed to both put into context and actively promote the three keystones of the National Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem-solving. Tapping into pupils’ own creativity, our unashamedly fun workshops engage, motivate and, crucially, challenge the young people we work with – and have been enjoyed by more than 400,000 of them across … Read More

Case Study: Enterprise Ambassadors – Innovative Research with Alsop High School

13th Sep 2012Case Studies, School Workshops
Case Study: Enterprise Ambassadors – Innovative Research with Alsop High School

After delivering an interactive whole-school INSET exploring the Davies Review of Enterprise Education and looking at enterprise skills, we worked closely with twelve teachers to investigate ways of incorporating enterprise across the curriculum. Following more in-depth examinations of “enterprise in action”, these Enterprise Ambassadors undertook small scale action research projects tracking the impacts on students … Read More

Case Study: Enterprise in Action at St Julie’s

1st Apr 2012Case Studies

We worked with 50 year 9 students from St Julie’s Catholic High School (who had all recently opted to study GCSE Business studies) on an interactive and fast paced workshop day exploring the advantages of enterprise in education. The sessions were inspired by the Davies Review of Enterprise Education- an independent review that explores the … Read More

Case Study: Harnessing Entrepreneurship to Raise School Attainment

22nd Mar 2012Case Studies, News

As Creatives in conjunction with Liverpool John Moores University has been working with senior teachers from primary and secondary schools to explore how entrepreneurial characteristics can be nurtured throughout the school community in order to increase learner attainment.  The event was a CPD opportunity for school leaders and teachers who engaged in a quality, interactive … Read More

Arts Awards – Celebrating Art at Haydock Sports College

13th Sep 2011School Workshops
Arts Awards – Celebrating Art at Haydock Sports College

Haydock’s students are justifiably proud of their prowess at sport – but they’ve proved they’re equally adept at the arts! After working with us last year to challenge their aspirations, a group of Year 10s went on to gain the experiences and skills they needed for the bronze level Arts Award. The emphasis from the … Read More

Growing Aspirations – Working with a Whole Community

13th Sep 2011Case Studies
Growing Aspirations – Working with a Whole Community

Children, parents and staff from two secondaries and seven primaries – not to mention a whole host of local organisations – worked with as creatives when we were asked by Knowsley Council to design, deliver and record an innovative community engagement programme related to the first of their flagship Centres for Learning – Christ the … Read More

Case Study: Building a New Kind of School

13th Sep 2011Case Studies
Case Study: Building a New Kind of School

With Gatecacre’s move to a new school not much more than twelve months away, the school’s Senior Leadership Team were keen to engage staff in exploring the exciting opportunities the new build would offer for working in different ways with both space and time. This is where as creatives came in – commissioned to research, … Read More

Case Study: IAG Ambassadors – Raising Aspirations at Newton High

13th Sep 2011Case Studies

Our third year supporting Newton High School saw us developing IAG Ambassadors, a programme in which a cohort of Year 9 students and their teachers worked together to explore the worlds of imagination, advice and guidance. After challenging their own aspirations, looking beyond the expected, the students considered what they would need to do to … Read More