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Working with Creative Partners – innovative approaches to improving achievement

Additional resources for creative learning can be effectively achieved by schools working in partnership with specialist practitioners and voluntary and community sector agencies. Sustainable partnerships with creative organisations and individuals can enhance learning and teaching across all areas of the curriculum by bringing in specialist expertise and skills to complement those of school staff.

Partnerships can also provide important opportunities to widen children’s experience beyond the classroom, often providing some of their most memorable experiences at school.

The most successful and imaginative creative learning projects are planned with close collaboration between school staff and creative partners, so that the approach reflects the interests, specialisms and shared vision of all those involved.

Generating Creative Enterprise – meeting future challenges

Education is facing unprecedented challenges: economic, technological, social and personal. Policy makers everywhere emphasise the urgent need to develop ‘human resources’, and in particular to promote creativity, adaptability and better powers of communication. New approaches are needed to broaden conceptions of young people’s abilities, which promote their motivation and self-esteem, and develop their skills and aptitudes.

While employers continue to demand high academic standards they also want people who can adapt, see connections, innovate, communicate and work with others. The new knowledge based economies will increasingly depend on these abilities.

From an early age children and young people should learn how to seek out relevant information, apply knowledge and skills in new and imaginative ways and try out ideas in real world situations where they can receive critical feedback.

Equipped with these competences and aptitudes, they will be more able to take responsibility for shaping their own future, respond to a rapidly changing world and work collectively to shape the world positively.