Cragside Primary School resources
Creative Classrooms - Cragside Primary School planning resources
All of the resources are based around the Shakespeare School Festival project that Cragside Primary School completed in November 2019.
Creative Engagement
Download our creative engagement PDF and watch the video below to find out more about how Cragside Primary School deliver creativity and engagement within their year 6 classes.
Creative intention - leadership
Download our leadership PDF and watch the video below to find out how Cragside Primary School is able to fund and build capacity for creative learning within their school.
To build your leadership skills and develop culture and the arts within your school why not join our Cultural Leadership in Education Programme? The programme empowers leaders through creative thinking, capacity building and solution focused models.
The Arts Council England have a whole host of fantastic resources on how to further engage school governors in arts and culture.
Creative intention - ownership
Download our Ownership PDF and watch the video below to find out how pupils have developed their own creative skills and learned how to make and stand by their own creative choices.
Here are some additional resources you may wish to read:
Listening to Children and Young People with Speech, Language and Communication Needs
This is a useful book which provides a range of creative techniques and solutions for listening to children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. The book provides insights from speech and language therapists, social workers, psychologists, teachers, researchers, advocates, parents, and young people with speech and language needs.
The ladder of participation is a model developed by Hart which identifies eight levels of children's participation in projects. It is designed to encourage those working with children to think more closely about the nature and purpose of children's participation in community activities.
Creative intention - risk taking
Download our Risk-taking PDF and watch the video below to learn how Cragside Primary School used risk-taking strategies in drama lessons in the classroom, as well as when performing as it teaches the students to trust their ideas and abilities and to have self confidence.
Here are some additional risk taking resources:
Top 10 tips for Shakespeare in the Primary classroom
The National Literacy Trust - KS3 The Tempest downloads
Cape UK Create - 6 steps to working with an artist
Creative intention - problem solving
Download our problem-solving PDF and watch the video below to understand how problem solving has become a very real part of the curriculum at Cragside Primary School. The school firmly believes that students should take on some of the responsibility for their own learning and can take personal action in order to solve problems.
Lesson plan ideas
If you have been inspired by Lisa Hall and you'd like to run your own Shakespeare School Festival project you might find Lisa's lesson plans helpful. Please know that these lesson plans were created by Lisa using many teaching resources.
Download Lisa's lesson plan ideas here
For slide one in the above lesson plan, please use the following: Tempest storm video
Cragside Primary School found this video made by Pembroke Dock Community School to be a great resource that they could use in their drama rehearsals.
Working with cultural partners
The best outcomes when working with cultural partners are secured when relationships are reciprocal and mutually beneficial to all parties. At Cragside primary for example the external music specialist was able to offer experience and expertise whilst in return he gained better understanding about classroom delivery with a cross curricular context. The school engages with a wide range of cultural partners to enable creativity to flourish across the curriculum.
Here are some recommendations with regards to resources from cultural partners:
We are IVE - Working with artists in your school
We are IVE - Perspectives form the literature
Shakespeare festival downloads
The National Literacy Trust - KS3 The Tempest downloads
Cape UK Create - 6 steps to working with artists in your school
Below is a video that explains how Cragside Primary School has been working with cultural partners.
What are the next steps for Cragside Primary School?
After speaking to the Cragside Primary School team we have created a list of steps that will take them forward.
- Step out of Shakespeare Schools Festival Project and be more independent.
- Work towards a platinum Artsmark award by engaging with a range of professionals including Culture Bridge North East.
- Continue to develop student ownership.
- Continue to develop an understanding of the creative process and associated creative skills as distinct concepts across the curriculum.
- Work with other schools to be more outward facing.
