Learning
Creative Learning blog:
We are all learning and we love learning together. We collaborate with schools, usually in long term partnerships, to help them serve their students better. This work is usually made bespoke but there are favourite projects that continue to be in demand. We also help train teachers and share our experiences with university students. A small fraction of these projects are highlighted here, many more can be found in the archive (you can filter searches in all kinds of useful ways).
- FREE Year 10 Science Workshop & ShowWe’ve started hanging out with Birmingham Plastics Network (BPN) at the University of Birmingham (UoB). We’re making a performance dramatising their report in the Future Of Plastic called The Many […]
- Philosophy Song CycleYear 4 students at Kings Rise Academy have been musing over some philosophical conundrums: Is it ever okay to lie? Can money buy happiness? What is friendship? What is love? […]
- Five new productions in JulyIn the next two weeks we open five new productions. This is a major challenge, fortunately we have four hundred and fifty students and their teachers all helping us. First […]
- A Tour Of The IndusAt the start of 2023 we worked with St. Matthews Primary School where children explored the Indus and learning about its people, its history and its geography. With our Associate […]
- The View From The Stage
The Classroom Stage has been a two-year programme with have run supported by the Paul Hamlyn Teacher Development Fund. One of the fund’s priorities is that “all those involved are positioned as learners”. This includes Stan’s Cafe Associate Artists who were partnered one to each of our ten schools.
Here Carys Jones reflects on her own journey working as an Artist on The Classroom Stage with Years 3, 5 and 6 at St Gerard’s Catholic Primary School.