CapeUK is the delivering agency for the Creative Partnerships programmes for over 150 schools in Yorkshire. This is England’s flagship creative learning programme, it aims to help young people fulfil their creative potential and achieve their best in all areas of learning and development.
Thousands of schools nationwide have worked with the programme, there has been a variety of successful projects in a range of creative professions such as; science, dance, architecture, design, engineering marketing culinary gardening and a variety of creative arts. This variety means that the projects can be designed to appeal to a broad range of interests and learning styles.
CapeUK are currently in the recruitment stage for 2010-2011 one year Enquiry School Programme. If you would like to find out more please contact Emma (West Yorkshire) on 0845 450 3700 or Jayne (South Yorkshire) 0114 286 6260.
Case Study
Speak it! Write it! is currently being delivered at Gooseacre Primary School through the Creative Partnerships programme.
Enquiry Question
“How can we work together using creative techniques to inspire pupils to link the spoken word to their writing?”
Programme Theme
Three creative practitioners worked with the three class teachers to co-develop and co-deliver the school’s theme based curriculum.
This year’s program aims to explore the relationship between discussing ideas verbally and encouraging pupils to carry this thinking into their written work.
A photographer used images to inspire pupils to link visual ideas to their writing. The Year 6 pupils developed their own characters, dressed up and took pictures.
“We dressed up, we wrote to everybody in the pictures…. You can imagine better, it felt like you were there. I wrote to my brother, not my real brother but my brother in the picture, which was me.” (Year 6 pupil)
Pupils are continually given opportunities to lead their own learning and inform the direction of the lessons. All pictures are taken and edited by pupils working in pairs.
Key Outcomes
• Teachers are more confident to use ICT creatively in the classroom
• The importance of allowing pupils to connect areas of learning became apparent
• Pupils’ confidence grew
• The creative work translated positively into formal written work
Sustainable Impact
• This project has developed the way teachers now approach planning, encouraging a more pupil-led method to learning and development
• Focus on co-construction, pupil voice and reflection, helped empower pupils to take more ownership of their written work
• Pupils were independent and confident; this was demonstrated in the software installation process and editing of photos
• Pupils are now using cameras more across the school to enhance learning and development
• Pupils are encouraged to make their own choices
