St Marylebone - year 3

In year three of the teaching for creativity initiative, the schools were progressing from establishing to embedding, with a focus on developing staff understanding, embedding practices and engaging school leaders. Differentiated approaches had been adopted based on each school’s needs, including involving different year groups and subjects, integrating creativity into whole school development plans and forming teacher learning groups dedicated to creativity.

As we moved through year three we increasingly focused on everyday creativity, creativity in all lessons and across subjects. ‘Everyday creativity’ equals creativity every day. Hence the metaphor of the pantry and cooking utensils took shape - our resource bank will be a creativity pantry to draw on. It will be a well-stocked pantry of resources, equipment and ingredients which we’ve developed over the past three years, with the idea that we cannot just let it sit there unused, but making it the central store to nourish the teaching and learning.

We celebrated our collective work at our year three conference in April 2024.

Our work has been evaluated, and the focus was on pupils and leaders involved in the project. A summary of the student voice told us that there are conditions for developing creativity, summarised here. Plus the leadership evaluation is summarised here.