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.
This is Northfield
This is Northfield, is an Aberdeen City Council programme which will deliver four artists’ residencies within Northfield Academy from early 2023 until spring 2024. Working with artists on projects themed around Creative Northfield, Resilient Northfield, Health and Wellbeing and What’s Your Treasure?, the programme is engaging with pupils, teachers and the wider school community to explore, discuss and celebrate the school and its community, whilst improving students META Skills and learning experience.
Supporting Communities
Fit Like? Hubs
‘Fit like? Family Wellbeing Hubs are a group of services working together with children, young people and families in Aberdeen to support their mental wellbeing. Our creative programme aims to ascertain what may be holding young people back and help them find strategies to overcome barriers to learning, whilst working holistically with others and building positive relationships between themselves, freelance artists, Hub staff, and their families.
Camp Geronimo
An artist-led play opportunity for children and their parents in Aberdeen city. Strengthening family relationships, building confidence and learning new skills together through creative play, family support & the arts.
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.
Community Consultation: Soundplay Projects
Creative Learning and StreetsUK were joined by Soundplay Projects at Orchard Brae School, Aberdeen to create a chilled out play experience for ASN children, their carers and families. We consulted with ASN families to better understand their needs and help guide the design and development of the Play Factory at the proposed Beach Park, as part of the wider Aberdeen City Centre & Beach Masterplanning Consultation currently underway in the city
Community Consultation: Building a Play Factory
Creative Learning and StreetsUK were joined by young people from Aberdeen & Creative Practitioners at the Beach Ballroom to create an active learning space to explore urban design proposals for Aberdeen’s City Centre & Beach Masterplan
Community Consultation: Youth Voice
In June 2023 a group of six young people travelled to Regensburg, Germany to investigate how youth voice is being used and listened to in the city. During the trip the young people visited the Goethe-Gymnasium, Juz Arena, Mini Regensburg and the Youth Parliament.
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.
UFO’s – Unfinished Objects
A group of local stitchers completed a panel for the Great Tapestry of Scotland but wanted to carry on stitching. Creative Learning helped arrange funding, design, tutors, materials etc for 3 panels for the Gordon Highlanders Museum to commemorate the end of the First World
War. On completing these panels they decided to stay together and become the UFO'S. Over the years they have learned new skills from experts and from each other. They have developed lasting friendships and welcome new stitchers.
Supporting Employability
ABZ Works – 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.
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.