' Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. ' - Rita Mae Brown
Creative Contexts for learning is a major East Riding Curriculum and Arts initiative, which has been running in various gises since 1999.
The East Riding of Yorkshire has an ongoing commitment to maintaining the
Arts and giving them a high profile.
Creative Contexts for Learning 2004 - Word Up!
continues the tradition of broad Arts-based Projects.
The aim of Creative Contexts for Learning is
to raise pupil achievement in a variety of core subjects -
Literacy, Numeracy and ICT, through active engagement in the
Arts.
Creative Contexts for learning seeks to
provide a rich, stimulating arena, where pupils are brought
into direct contact with professional arts practitioners and
performers.
More than half the schools in the East Riding have now participated
in Creative Contexts for Learning and it
is reasonable to assume, therefore, that it continues to have
a very positive influence on Arts education provision.
A further measure of success has been the extent to which
other LEAs and schools have adopted this model.
The project has also come to the attention of, and been very
favourable received by both QCA and HMI.
Schools who opt to join Creative Contexts for Learning
identify a prioroty or priorities from the LEAs Education
development plan and from their School development plan, upon
which they wish to focus.
This then forms the basis for the objectives to be achieved
through the adoption of an Arts strategy.
Project schools use a classroom based action research
methodology in order to measure pupil progress and
gains made in learning, both in core area learning and in
their chosen art form or forms.
Each Creative Contexts for Learning Project spans
an academic year.
participating schools have made some highly original and
innovative contributions to Creative Contexts for
Learning.
Pupils have demonstarted considerable gains in their learningand
have derived great benefit from the first-hand experience
of working alongside contemporary Arts practitioners.
Schools have produced work of tremendous quality, demonstrating
the great range of talent possessed by both pupils and their
teachers.
The 2004 edition of the Project has the sub-title - WORD
UP!, which aims to create a Literacy connection,
to make a thematic link between the Project work in schools,
to focus on braodly word-bsed outcomes and with some participating
schools has the specific aspect of focusing on attainment
in Literacy in Year 6.
24 schools participated in the project.
Below you will find photographs representing the schools
work.
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