Shakespeare Week Celebrate Shakespeare in your school during Shakespeare Week – 24th – 30th March 2025, with an interactive drama-based workshop, available to schools throughout the UK and beyond. Teacher CPD workshops also available. Our Shakespeare workshops are available all year round so please get in touch to reserve your date! William Shakespeare is now … Read More
Teacher CPD
Creative CPD and INSETs
A school’s best and most valuable resource is of course, its staff. But there are times when everyone can benefit from a fresh approach and an injection of new ideas. And that’s where As Creatives can come in. Our Creative CPD programmes and INSETs, which have been delivered to thousands of teachers and teaching professionals right across … Read More
Aloha College – Teacher CPD
Marbella’s Aloha College are taking an exciting and progressive approach to CPD – not least by establishing cross-curricular collaborative working groups. So we were delighted to be asked to support their initiatives by designing and delivering a session exploring Engagement and Relationships for, over two days, all teachers in the college’s secondary phase. In … Read More
Jackson’s Visit to The British School Warsaw
As staff at The British School Warsaw gathered the end of August to prepare for the start of a new term, Jackson joined twenty two EYFS teachers and teaching assistants to lead a CPD day exploring the possibilities of Outdoor Learning. This was Jackson’s first ever visit to Poland – and here, couched in the … Read More
Jackson’s Trip to Denmark’s International School of Billund
One of the many joys of working with as creatives is that I get to see and sample parts of the world I might never otherwise visit. And not just the UK (although we’ve been to all four corners – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), but internationally, too. So, having already run two as … Read More
Teacher Training Courses and Universities
We have been providing high quality, creative and experiential learning programmes for trainee and newly qualified teachers since 2010. As when working with children and young people, our aim is to deliver learning experiences that are both meaningful and enjoyable – and feedback from participants tells us that we succeed in this.What Makes Us Different?It’s … Read More
Case Study: Team Building and Problem Solving: A Unique Approach to CPD
We know that teaching can be murder sometimes, but our unique Murder Mystery INSETs have an amazing track record in putting the spring back in everyone’s step, integrating new teams, consolidating existing ones and probing problem solving skills – and all to the backdrop of a room filled with laughter! The process starts when you … 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
Blog: Learning Outside the Classroom
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
Case Study: A Creative Approach to Conferences
Key Stage 4 is an important time in young people’s lives – but how can we support them in deciding where to go next? Equally importantly, how do Key Stages 2 and 3 fit into all of this? The Key Stage 4 in Context Conference was planned, prepared and facilitated by as creatives – and … Read More
Case Study: The 14-19 Reforms: Avenues and Pathways – a Programme for Trainee Teachers
We worked with GTP trainees to explore key aspects of the 14-19 reforms and their implications for teaching and learning. During a two day programme trainee teachers explored creative and innovative approaches to planning and delivering the diplomas. Trainee teachers worked individually, in pairs, in small groups and in large groups in being introduced to the following … Read More
Resources – FACE Facts Campaign
Based at the University of Liverpool, Moving On With Life and Learning (MOWLL for short) support adults with learning difficulties become self advocates through innovative and person-centred development programmes. The organisation has recently launched its FACE Facts campaign, aimed at stopping hate crime – with a particular focus on hate crime committed against people with … Read More