Creativity In Education
Project Outcomes:
- Enhance children’s learning experiences across the curriculum, through creative approaches, cultural participation and partnerships
- Give children the chance to express themselves, test and apply creativity skills and share their work with others.
- Improve children’s ability to recognise and articulate their own skills and potential, through innovative arts and creative learning experiences.
- Demonstrate Aberdeen is a city without creative barriers where children and schools can experiment with and be transformed by the arts, creativity and culture.
- Provide a creative space to allow pupils to shape their own learning, demonstrating individuality and uniqueness.
- Health, wellbeing and engagement in learning; promoting self-esteem, inclusion and eagerness to take part and learn.
- Development of employability and META skills; recognising and progressing the skills that are valuable to learning and the future workplace, not matter what age you are.
These outcomes have been developed in response to the National Improvement Framework, Scotland's Creative Learning Plan, relevant Aberdeen City Council LOIP and informed by the ongoing Creative Learning team work with city schools.
Creative Classrooms
Creative Classrooms is an innovative, pilot programme designed for educators and PGDE students. It aims to empower teachers and university students to take more creative risks and feel more confident in developing their creative skills to embrace and nurture creativity in their classrooms and within their own practice.
Creative Writing and The Outdoors
This project, based at Danestone Primary School, improves children’s writing attainment through creative approaches based on outdoor themes, together with empowering teachers to use more creative approaches within their setting. Sparking imagination, role playing and enthusiasm, both pupils and teachers are brought a stimulating wealth of learning.
Supporting Communities
City Centre & Beach Masterplan Creative Consultancy
Creative Learning and StreetsUK were joined by Creative Practitioners at the Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen to create an active learning space to explore urban design proposals for Aberdeen’s City Centre & Beach Masterplan.
Geronimo - Time To Play
Community Geronimo is a bespoke programme of artist led play opportunities for early years children 0-5 years & their parents/caregivers together. Strengthening family relationships, building confidence and learning new skills together.
Supporting Employability
VACMA 2023 – Visual Artist & Craft Makers Awards
The Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards (VACMA) are a programme of small grants schemes delivered with a range of local authorities and art agencies across Scotland to support Scotland-based visual artists and craft makers in their creative development.
ABZWorks - No one left behind
Creative Learning deliver one to one sessions or small group creative workshops, enabling and empowering Young People (15-25), who are not in education or employment, to improve their personal and employability skills.