May 25, Glasgow Science Centre, 10am – 3.30pm

The Scottish Government, Education Scotland and Creative Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a national event designed to showcase innovation across teaching and learning in a range of subjects beyond the expressive arts. Directors of Education have been invited to attend together with teacher colleagues from different subject backgrounds.

The event will highlight just how imaginatively schools and teachers are already embedding creativity into their daily work, often in partnership with external organisations.

Teachers and senior managers in schools and the education sector will be able to draw on a range of good practice in promoting creative learning and improving learners’ creative skills within all subjects. The day is designed to:

• Explore what is meant by ‘Creativity skills for learning, life and work’
• Experience new and exciting approaches to motivating children to learn
• Discover different approaches taken to working with professionals and partners in delivering creative learning experiences.
• Find out about the resources and networks available to support creative teaching and learning

Participants will have the opportunity to explore and exchange innovative practices, and the practical outcomes of the day will be captured to complement and influence Scottish Government policy in promoting creative education practices.

The event also marks the launch of the new look Creativity Portal, www.creativityportal.org.uk, which includes a fantastic set of creative films specifically designed to support creative teaching and learning, and announces a new phase of development which opens up the Portal to all creative partners and freelancers who work with schools. The Creative Learning Networks (CLNs) Showreel film and case studies will also be launched at the event, illustrating the benefits of getting involved and showing the kind of activities through which the networks are building Scotland’s creative capacity.

The day will be introduced by Ruth Wishart, Chair of the Scottish Government’s Creative Education Group.