A one-form entry school in Bolton, Edgworth has a House system that encourages children of different ages to work and socialise together, developing relationships across year groups. So when they were planning a Maths Day where pupils would work in House groups rather than in their normal classes, they asked us if there was a … Read More
One the UK’s leading providers of maths workshops to schools. All of our maths workshops have been carefully designed to put into context and actively promote the keystones of the Northern Ireland Curriculum. Tapping into pupils’ own creativity, our unashamedly fun workshops engage, motivate and, crucially, challenge the children and young people we work with, providing them with meaningful contexts … Read More
The summer term sees many secondary schools enriching their students’ education by organising “off timetable” days offering a wide range of different activities. So why not let us take the pressure off programming and the toil out of timetabling by booking one of our BIG Secondary Days? Both challenging and engaging, a BIG Secondary Day … Read More
The value of Learning Outside the Classroom, and the positive impacts it can have on teaching and learning, is supported by an enormous body of evidence. But as experience is just as important to theory, our experiential INSETs always provide staff with opportunities to recall and reflect on their own outdoor memories. Combining expert thinking … Read More
We know how important mathematical reasoning is – not just within the curriculum, but in real life too. So we set ourselves the challenge of designing a workshop that would give students of all ages a very different way of practising (and, crucially, extending) their reasoning skills. We discussed lots of potential approaches back at … Read More
as creatives is one of the UK’s leading providers of Science Workshops to primary and secondary schools. Always rooted in real and concrete science and taking their lead from the Northern Ireland Curriculum- but taking approaches from the world of the arts – our Science Workshops for schools in Ireland provide an excellent way of engaging … Read More
When one of our team was struggling to find a holiday club that catered to her children’s interests we decided to create our own! There were lots of great sounding sports clubs to choose from, but what about those children who could spend all day making something from scrap, or whose minds were overflowing with … Read More
We are huge fans of Shakespeare, of course – firmly believing in the power of experiential approaches to his works. And we also love the process of creating, crafting and performing poetry. Over the years, we have taken our interactive Shakespeare and Poetry workshops to tens of thousands of children and young people, both nationally … Read More
2018 marks ten years since we founded As Creatives – ten years in which we’ve led creative learning programmes for hundreds of thousands of children and young people in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Isles, the Czech Republic and Malaysia! To celebrate, we’ve got some exciting news to share over the next twelve … Read More
A nostalgic whim took me on a detour recently, to show my kids where I had built dens amongst trees and bracken as a dirty-kneed nine year old. It was the same spot, I told them on our approach, where my big brothers regularly rode their bikes on dirt tracks, over obstacles and down dips … Read More
We’re well aware that schools often want large numbers of their pupils to share the experience of participating in our Creative Maths workshops – so we’ve specifically designed programmes such as The Pirate’s Challenge, The Captain’s Conundrum and The Trading Game to cater for up to 60 pupils per workshop. But as the challenge from schools … Read More
Sadly, it is still very often the case that when students arrive in one of our Shakespeare workshops, the dread is written all over their faces! The fear that they won’t understand it or that it will be boring, or just plain irrelevant, is palpable. However, it is a challenge we relish and it doesn’t … Read More
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