At Westborough High School, we encourage and promote creativity across the curriculum by:
- Ensuring that planning incorporates a range of teaching and learning styles.
- Providing regular opportunities for hands-on experimentation, problem solving, discussion and collaborative work.
- Creating opportunities where pupils are encouraged to actively do the work and question what is going on.
- Making use of creative thinking techniques such as Brainstorming, Thinking Hats, etc…
- Sharing the learning intentions with pupils and providing them with opportunities for choosing how they are going to work.
- Encouraging pupils to improvise, experiment and think outside the box.
- Actively encouraging pupils to question, make connections, envisaging what might be possible and exploring ideas.
- Asking open-ended questions such as ‘What if…?’ and ‘How might you…?’
- Joining in with activities and modelling creative thinking and behaviour.
- Encouraging pupils to develop criteria that they can use to judge their own work, in particular its originality and value.
- Facilitating open discussion of the problems pupils are facing and how they can solve them.
- Encouraging pupils to share ideas with others and to talk about their progress.
- Using failure or setbacks as opportunities to learn.
- Ensuring that assessment procedures reflect and reward creativity, enterprise and innovation.
- Making effective use of encouragement, praise and positive language.
- Creating opportunities to learn through the imagined experience, giving them a safe context to explore ideas using drama techniques.
Click here to find out how drama is used across the curriculum.
