Having worked with LJMU’s PGCE students since 2009 on programmes designed to model and bring to life “active learning”, we were really pleased to be asked earlier this year to extend the partnership by designing and piloting a similar piece of work for trainees on the four-year course. This year that’s to be taken another … Read More
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
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
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
In a programme planned with members of Archbishop Beck’s Creative Literacy Team, we supported 3 Year 7 classes in understanding the importance of both speaking and listening – and in developing their skills in these areas. Teachers and students were introduced to a range of engaging and interactive approaches designed by as creatives to model … Read More
Children at Beechwood Primary School became real life graphic designers and illustrators. Staff and students creatively used the industry standard software Adobe Photoshop Elements and Apple computers during the programme. Children across Key Stage 2 worked with as creative’s Kate Pankhurst (who regularly uses Photoshop to create published children’s books) and Simon McKeown (who uses … Read More
Time travel, heroes and villians, and the Great Fire of London. It’s all been going on at Holy Family Primary school! Over the course of a term, we worked with all Year 1 and 2 pupils (and their teachers) at Holy Family Primary School to explore ways of melding two topics: ‘The Great Fire of … Read More
Working closely with Year 1, 5 and 6 teachers, Sustainable Science combined science, literacy, numeracy and learning outside the classroom as the children recreated flood plains and volcanoes in scientific experiments and replanted and tended the school’s vegetable plots. After creating short plays about the impacts of natural and human-made disasters, the children put their … Read More
Working with 16 members of a Year 3 Nurture Group, their teacher and teaching assistant, Mapping the World Around Us explored some of the key events in Kirby’s timeline, allying these to the children’s skills – and supporting them in challenging their aspirations. A time vortex hovering over the school allowed the children to meet … Read More