Creative Learning

Creative Learning

What?
– Children have been learning to creatively elaborate on their ideas.

Why?
– Studies show that creative elaboration is declining significantly in children and adults. Creative elaboration is when you take an  idea and expand on it in an interesting and novel way. This is especially worrying because creative elaboration is a better predictor of real world achievement than test scores.

How?
– We started by providing children with a variety of  topic choices. This gave children choice and some control over the topics making this a more playful experience. For example, design a playground that would be  fun for Bromley school children, design a robot to complete your homework, design a bug catcher, make a catapult that will work out of ice cream sticks  etc We also share three unrelated pictures and simply state, “What if....” 

- Children had to state the what it is, how it works and why it was or is a good design. Creativity eleboratig on their final designs.

- They could present their designs using anything, and could explain how it works in writing or record themselves speaking to about it. This way children that struggle with writing still had the opportunity to be creative and articulate their ideas.

Where to from here?
– STEAM activities
– Make a space in the hall- funding applied for





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