Images of exercises and discussions from the Essex second Lab Day. Pictures: CRO.
Instant garden installation from an exercise led by Nicola Burrell.

Trust exercises.

The Big Paper exercise.

Expressions of Interest from Artists

NOTE: The recruitment process for this project is now closed.

Project Partners


Creative Partnerships

www.creative-partnerships.com

Arts Council England

www.artscouncil.org.uk


Hertfordshire County Council

and

Essex County Council.



 

Creativity for Life is a project working with 13 schools in Stevenage, Herts and 13 schools in Harlow, Essex. Each school has been teamed with a creative practitioner with whom they will develop a relationship lasting until the end of March 2008.


The project includes:
  • a series of Lab Days: experimental professional development days for participating teachers and artists
  • a project in each of the 26 schools, developing creative teaching and teaching for creativity
  • research into the impact of this partnership working on the achievement and development of the whole school
  • A regional conference in March 2008 to disseminate findings and display the achievements of all the participating schools.

Hertfordshire schools are working on the joint themes of Transitions (between infant and junior or junior and secondary school) and literacy, including oracy, communication and emotional literacy. Essex schools are focusing on numeracy and mathematics, finding creative ways of dealing with numbers, space, problem-solving and ideas.

Event Schedule

The list of dates for the Lab Days for Essex and Hertfordshire can be downloaded as a Word document. Please click here.

Hertfordshire artists and schools

These are the artists who have been chosen to work with the 13 Hertfordshire schools. Some schools are collaborating in pairs or threes. More information on the artists and their practice will be available soon.

  • Bedwell Junior Mixed & Infant School/Louise Knight working with
  • St Vincent De Paul RC Junior Mixed Infant School /Coral Rumble and
  • Broom Barns Primary School/Dawn Hudson
  • Camps Hill Community School/Siobhan O'Neil
  • Fairlands Junior & Infants School/Andy D'Cruz
  • Martins Wood Junior Mixed Infant School/Leo Smith
  • Moss Bury Primary & Nursery working with
  • Marriotts School/Phil Keating & Gary Potter (Wizard Stories)
  • Round Diamond Primary School/Jane Reid
  • Woolenwick Junior Mixed School/Meera Chauda working with
  • Woolenwick Infants School/Dawn Burnham
  • Greenside School/Corali Dance Company
  • Thomas Alleyne School/Michael Supple

Essex artists and schools


  • Broadfields Primary School/Ashley McCormick
  • Burnt Mill Comprehensive School/Ruth Finn
  • Little Parndon Primary School/Johanna Berger
  • Churchgate CofE Primary School/Michael Shaeffer
  • Fawbert & Barnard Primary School/Miriam Lynn
  • Henry Moore Primary School/Nicola Burrell
  • Roydon Primary School/Andrew Jameson
  • St Albans RC Primary School/Andrea Puerta
  • St Luke’s Primary School/Steve Rogers
  • Spinney Primary School/Vanessa Downie
  • Tany’s Dell Primary School/Thadian Pillai
  • Downs Primary School/Julie Creffield
  • Sheerings CofE Primary School/Steve Downey