Creative Partnerships

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Creative Partnerships

• Friday 28 October 2005
• Steve Moffitt, Creative Partnerships, London
  East
• Catherine Orbach, Creative Partnerships, Hastings
  and East Sussex

Creative Partnerships Birmingham Clive Chandler
Performances Photographer Clive Chandler
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What is Creative Partnerships?
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Aim of Creative Partnerships

• Creative Partnerships works to give school
  children throughout England the opportunity to
  develop their potential, ambition, creativity and
  imagination. It achieves this by building
  sustainable partnerships between schools and
  creative and cultural individuals and
  organisations that impact upon learning.

Creative Partnerships Kent Hoping
for Accidents
Photographer Gary Browne
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Facts and Figures

• An Arts Council England generated initiative
• The first joint creative learning programme
  between DCMS and DfES
• Funded by DCMS from 2002 2008 and DfES from
  2003-2008
• Budget of 200 million
• Currently covers 736 schools in 16 of the most
  economically and socially challenged
  neighbourhoods in England

Creative Partnerships BDR Digital Photo Mosaic
System Photographer Gavin Joynt
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Creative Partnerships is .

• - Teaching the curriculum more creatively
• - Using creativity as a motivator
• - Developing creative skills suited to the modern
  economy

Creative Partnerships Cornwall Watch this space
Photographer Nick Robinson at
Sam Morgan Moore
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Conversation 1
Whats your definition of creativity?
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Creative Learners can

• Identify problems and ask unusual questions
• Transfer knowledge between contexts
• Explore and generate ideas
• Consult, build on ideas of others and work in
  teams
• Reflect critically on ideas, actions and
  outcomes

Creative Partnerships London South Drawing
with Light
Photographer Robert Taylor
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Why Creative Partnerships?
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A Brief History

• Ken Robinson and others outline case for
  creativity in NACCE report
• All Our Futures 1999
• Future workforce
• Schools to connect better with nations
  creative/cultural wealth
• Build capacity for schools and creative sectors
  to work together
• Impact on teaching and learning

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Key Outcomes

• More imaginative and independent learners
  developing capacity for original ideas and action
• More ingenious rather than industrious teachers
  using creative partners to achieve their teaching
  aims
• More connected and sustainable creative and
  cultural partners growing capacity in their
  practice
• Strategy of learning culture across specific
  local communities fostering capacity for
  multi-agency collaboration

Creative Partnerships London East Columbia
carnival Photographer
Dee Conway
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An opportune time in education

• QCA Creativity Find it Promote It
• DFES Excellence Enjoyment
• Personalised learning
• Specialist schools
• Extended schools
• Childrens Services
• Self government of schools
• Focus on external partnerships for schools

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Conversation 2
What are your governments initiatives around
creativity/education?
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Where is Creative Partnerships?
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Creative Partnership Areas

• 36 programmes, 4 in every government region
  working
• Locally
• Regionally
• Nationally
• Internationally

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Regional agencies regional development agencies,
government office, regional arts, museums, sports
orgs
Local authorities, local education authorities,
youth service, education initiatives
Young people, schools teachers, creative partners
(individuals and organisations)
Higher education, Further education,
Community/adult learning
Business, chambers of commerce, regeneration
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Conversation 3
Who do you liase with? Who are your partners?
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Creative Partnerships in action

• How does it work?
• Starting up in Hastings and East Sussex
• What can it do?
• Two years on in London East

Creative Partnerships Manchester Salford Edge of
the City Photographer Anne Worthington
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We know that creativity is what makes the
difference between a good teacher and an
excellent teacher, between a good business and an
excellent one, yet we are struggling to find a
way to describe the impact that it hasThe story
of creativity needs to be told. Estelle Morris,
October 2003
Creative Partnerships Slough Box Clever Blue
Skies Transition Photographer Carl Stevenson