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17th October 2014, 11:19 AM
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Re: What is a creative curriculum in primary schools?

Creative Curriculum was a landmark 2007 report from the National College for School Leadership (NCSL). It focused on four primary schools.

Lifting the Lid defined educational creativity in the following terms:
Connecting: seeing relationships and combining in new ways
Risking: having the self-confidence and freedom to fail and keep trying
Envisaging: being original and imaginative about what might be
Analysing: asking critical and challenging questions
Thinking: taking time for reflection and soft thinking
Interacting: sharing ideas and collaborating
Varying: testing options and trying different ways
Elaborating: exploring, fiddling, doing the unnecessary

Designing a creative curriculum

Lifting the Lid proposed six key messages for creative curriculum design:

Focus on curriculum creativity by:
Encouraging imagination and originality
Making time to reflect critically
Allowing space for thinking and choice
Giving freedom to fail with the confidence to try again

Create a culture of collaboration by:
Sharing values and ethos with the whole school community
Promoting the importance of talk and collaboration in consolidating learning
Ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn from others
Promoting teamwork and detailed planning
Developing a distributed style that shares ownership and draws others into the organisation

Emphasise cognitive approaches by:
Advocating a range of teaching strategies and learning styles
Promoting the importance of learning across the curriculum
Encouraging teachers to make children active partners in their learning
Encouraging teachers to structure tasks and pace of learning to make it challenging and enjoyable

]Make a real commitment to the community by:
Promoting the importance of dynamic partnership
Involving parents and carers at every opportunity
Focusing on the importance of the learning environment
Extending involvement into the local community and beyond

Balance continuity and change through:
Positive and productive performance management
Inspirational and interactive professional development
Making staff feel valued

Promote child-centredness by:
Promoting personal, social and spiritual aspects of the curriculum
Encouraging teachers to develop each child’s confidence, self-discipline and understanding of their learning
Encouraging teachers to make learning vivid, real and meaningful with many first-hand experiences


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