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Meet our Creativity Collaboratives

Meet our Creativity Collaboratives

North East - The Duchess’s Community High

Will test approaches to embedding teaching for creativity in all subjects in the curriculum including Maths, Science, Technology and English alongside arts-based subjects.

North West - C Change - Holy Family Catholic Multi- Academy Trust

Will be working across their community delivering a project focused on reducing disadvantage and improving wellbeing and mental health outcomes for pupils through creative teaching practices.

Midlands - Billesley Primary School

Will be working in West Midlands to explore ways to empower teachers to develop their teaching practice through partnerships with creative and cultural organisations, with a focus on local heritage and identity.

Read Billesley’s latest blog

Midlands - Welbeck Primary School

Working in a diverse range of educational settings including primary schools, a hospital school, a special educational needs school and a referral unit for unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees, Welbeck Primary School will explore how to nurture children’s innate creativity and curiosity within the curriculum.

London - The St Marylebone CE School

Will explore the development of shared language and values within their school network to create and sustain teaching for creativity.

South East - Anglian Learning (schools in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex)

Will explore how varied approaches to teaching for creativity, with a particular focus on inquisitiveness, support all pupils and contribute to school improvement in a diverse range of settings.

South West - Penryn College

Will be exploring how teaching for creativity across the curriculum can support young people to be best for their future in a changing workforce.

Read Penryn’s latest blog

South West - Halterworth Primary School - University of Winchester Academy Trust

Will focus on exploring enablers and barriers to teaching for creativity and their interaction with inequality, including fostering children’s and teachers’ creative self-beliefs and leading for creativity.

About the fund

About the fund

This programme will build networks of schools to test innovative practices in teaching for creativity, sharing learnings to facilitate system-wide change. 

Working alongside existing school structures, teachers and educators will co-develop creative strategy and pedagogy, test out approaches to teaching and learning, and evaluate their impact on pupils, schools and communities.

Grant range

Up to £360,000 between October 2021 and July 2024

Eligibility

State maintained schools of any phase (including SEND schools and PRUs) and state-funded schools (e.g. academies) who lead teaching for creativity work with an existing network (or potential to build one) of eight to twelve schools.

Our commitment to creativity

The Durham Commission is a joint research collaboration between Durham University and Arts Council England, convened to look at the role creativity and creative thinking should play in the education of young people.

Cover of the Durham Commission report
Photo by Cover of the Durham Commission report
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Blog category
  • Blog post

Our refreshed vision for a creative education

By Nicky Morgan, 21 April 2021

Our Director of Special Projects, Nicky Morgan, reflects on the Durham Commission eighteen months on.

Four primary school aged children paint clay sculptures in a classroom
Photo by Arts activity at Senacre Woods Primary School. Photo: Xavier Fiddes / Senacre Woods Primary School
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Join our online community of school leaders, teachers and those working and interacting with schools and get the latest ideas about how to teach for creativity.

A graphic which reads "How do you teach creativity?"
Photo by Creativity Exchange
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