Next Practice in Communities for Learning - Creative Partnerships in Sunderland

Community curriculum

Greenfield School is working with an artist to involve pupils across 3 secondary schools to design their future learning environment to inform the BSF programme and, through this, to question and re-imagine a 21st curriculum for 14 to 19-year-olds and the leadership structure in school.

Bexhill School are working with their student research teams to consider all aspects of the school day and school systems and, through working with a dramatist, are creating scenarios to explore how things could be different. The focus is on developing independent enquiry skills and reflection on learning styles and to challenge the staff and leadership to adopt new approaches to organisation and delivery - the school have committed themselves to implementing the best ideas.

Peases West is a small rural school working with several cultural partners and a researcher to produce a curriculum grid. The aims of the grid are threefold: to transform teacher's lesson and learning planning, to address key skills identified by parents, staff and pupils as desirable learning outcomes and to extensively develop the delivery of the curriculum outdoors. The school has a long history of innovative and creative work and hopes to sustain momentum by becoming designated as a school of creativity.

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