What could be more creative than science? And what better way to explore science than by working with students’ own innate creativity? Taking approaches from the world of the arts, but always rooted in real and concrete science, our inspirational Creative Science Workshops for Secondary Schools are suitable right through Key Stages 3 and 4. … Read More
Schools Programmes
Teaching Resource: Welcome Letters – Transition Activity
With the end of the academic year in sight, many of your children will be thinking about making the transition to the next year group. And who better to help them than their peers? Your current eleven year olds will know more about Year 6 than anybody else – and your current five year olds will … Read More
Science Workshops for Primary Schools – Creative Science Workshops for EYFS – KS2
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 National Curriculum – but taking approaches from the world of the arts – our Science Workshops for schools provide an excellent way of engaging students with … Read More
Teaching Resource: Observational Maths Bingo
Welcome to Observational Bingo! We at as creatives love looking for Maths in everyday life, so we’ve had great fun putting this together – and we hope you enjoy it. Your task is to find an example of each item on one of the five downloadable and printable Observational Bingo Grids, make a note of … Read More
Refugee Week 2019 – School Workshops
For its 20th anniversary, Refugee Week is inviting us all to participate in one of its 20 Simple Acts – easy ways of showing support for refugees. And our Welcome Gems workshop will allow you and your pupils the chance to accomplish No. 15 on the list: “Spread the Word”! The news is … Read More
Case Study: The Pirate’s Challenge!
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
Maths Workshops for Schools in Ireland
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
Teaching Resource: Shakespeare and Science: The Elements
An open-ended, cross-curricular, creative science and Shakespeare activity connecting scientific thoughts across the ages Download the Shakespeare and Science resource Find out more about Periodic Tales book by Hugh Aldersey-Williams here Get in touch and let us know about your experiences of using Shakespeare and Science with young people: info@as-creatives.com Related Pages Shakespeare Workshops for … Read More
Big Secondary Days – Enriching education through a creative approach to the curriculum
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
Learning Outside the Classroom INSET
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
Learning Outside the Classroom Opportunities in Maths and English
Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds. Every year we work with schools across the UK to help realise the potential of their outdoor space/s for creative learning opportunities. Outdoor MathsSchools’ outdoor areas offer a wealth of stimulus for learning in Literacy. Whether it’s an observational poetry … Read More
Case Study: The Bunker – Creative Maths Workshops
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