Here are the slides from the recent parent learning community workshop:Creativity in Schools. Beginning with defining, 'Creativity', participants engaged with the hugely inspiring TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. The succeeding workshop encouraged further dialogue and collaboration across the whole school community including clay avatar modeling and spontaneous performance and choreography by grade 6 students.

1. Do schools kill
creativity?

2. What is creativity?

5. “Conformity is the worst enemy of creativity. Anyone who is
unable to take risks cannot be creative.”
— Oliviero Toscani

7. Creativity is to be free in mind-the freedom to try
new ideas and not always the same as previously

8. Creativity is to think of something, to make
something up in your mind

9. Creativity is to invent things- it's thinking
skills, brainstorming, sometimes can be
done alone or sometimes in a group

10. Creativity is original spontaneity

11. Creativity is to think outside the square, opening your
eyes, to take risks

12. Creativity is to have many idea

13. Creativity is multiple ways of doing things

14. Creativity is being an artist, not to give up, to put more
fantasy into something

15. Creativity is making a new trick, making
new rule, bending the rules

16. Creativity is not thinking and expressing
your feelings

17. Creativity is the individual experience and
interpretation of his/her environment

18. Creativity is putting yourself outside you
body

19. Creativity is building an idea without
constraint

20. Creativity is making something new and
inventive that has the power to change the world

21. Sir Ken Robinson,
‘Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an
entertaining and profoundly
moving case for creating an
education system that nurtures
(rather than undermines)
creativity.
http://www.ted.com/talks/
ken_robinson_says_schools_kill
_creativity.html

22. Student led conferences
A celebration of creativity

23. It looks like a pipe cleaner but it's a...

24. Learning Engagement
How we express ourselves
http://bmsoneproject2013.tumblr.com/
Collaborate together to create your own
'flying classroom'
Take a photograph with your handy
Email to
mark.shillitoe@metropolitanschool.com
or
Post it @EyeEm or tweet it #creativity

25. Thank you
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