The Creative Curriculum

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The Creative Curriculum

• Planning learning

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What do the children want from lessons?

• To be excited
• To know why we are studying certain subjects
• To know why we are taught separate subjects when
  life is integrated
• For lessons to be different
• To be more involved and not have to sit listening
  for too long
• To go outside whenever possible

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Planning exciting lessons

• How will the children record their work ?
• what combinations of children will be used
• how children will make choices and contribute
  their voice
• we all learn in different ways, have we offered
  something to appeal to all styles of learners?
  collaborative initially planned and outlined by
  us then shared with the class, inviting their
  learning questions and proposals

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Introducing new topics with a bang!

• If were not excited by teaching a new topic the
  children wont be
• Start a topic with a guest speaker
• Play a news report real or made-up
• Look at a small part of a blown-up photo
• Reveal some clues from a bag
• Read an imaginary letter from a
  celebrity/organisation asking the children to
  help them with some research
• Encourage the children to start asking questions

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Planning exciting activities

• Invent a machine that would have put out the
  great fire of London
• Hold a trial with the baker and a town planner
  class act as jury
• Compare the fire of London to the fires in L.A
• Write a letter to Sir Christopher Wren advising
  him how to redesign the new buildings he is
  planning in London

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Delivery delusion

• We should aim to move away from the delivery
  delusion. We should avoid the thought of
  delivering facts to thinking of our roles as
  developing skills and allowing the children to
  plan a more active role in their own learning

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Classroom learning

• Is it active?
• Are the children invited and helped to
• plan their approach to any activity
• Review the activity
• Think ahead to other situations and apply it to a
  real world context why am I learning this?

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Creativity should become part of everyday school
life ?

• Have an open ended question of the week that
  children go home and think about and plan time to
  discuss it
• Set research projects for homework
• Aim for a classroom atmosphere where excellence
  is celebrated
• Challenge ourselves to bring learning to life