https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt ‘How can empowering teachers to develop creative pedagogies facilitate the environment in which children are enabled to flourish and fulfil their creative potential?’ en-us 2022-01-10 13:45:34 UTC 2025-11-22 16:45:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1530473472/2fd9edbc2bccd275888f299cc48bf915/Woods_Bank_Logo.jpg ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038876437 Woods Bank has a vast outdoor environment. There is a school garden and a forest school as well as a large field. There are some passionate curriculum leaders and some ties to the local community. ]]> 2022-02-09 20:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038876437 ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038880441 The quality of teaching and learning is not consistently good in all classrooms. Behaviour has been and continues to be a huge challenge for the school. The workload teachers are under seems to be worsened by the constant redesign of curriculum and systems. Many parents are not supportive with curriculum areas. ]]> 2022-02-09 20:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038880441 ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038885589 The curriculum leader at Woods Bank is passionate and committed. We have great spaces within the school and access to a number of local resources such as the Black County Living Museum. The school is part of the Arts Network. The school is part of a Federation with two other schools in the Midlands.]]> 2022-02-09 20:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038885589 ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038890246 Where does it fit? The school has a great deal of priorities to work on and to be successful there needs to be strategic implementation towards change. Staff are feeling overworked and so anything new might feel overwhelming. Time. Always time. ]]> 2022-02-09 20:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038890246 ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038902697 Today was our launch event for our Creativity Collaborative. We were introduced to two of our possible creative partners (Black Country Living Museum and New Art Gallery) and learned more about the two companies. Birmingham City University shared some initial questions from the Theory of Change. We then broke off into smaller groups to meet briefly with other creative partners such as Stans Cafe and Open Theatre to get a taste of the types of projects that can be done in school to develop creative and critical thinking skills in any area of the curriculum. Our focus will be on place-making and geography. ]]> 2022-02-09 21:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038902697 ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038928810 Inspiration from creative partners...

Life in our local community after the coal mines were closed. How did the area change, development, digress, function? 
What is still the same? What is different? What magic can we see in our area? What are the success stories?

https://www.tiktok.com/@blackcountrylivingmuseum/video/6969605000167230726?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&lang=en
https://earth.google.com/web/@52.586214,-1.982919,94a,49760.55990322d,35y,7h,0.00001451t,0r/data=CjISMBIgNTQ0MGExNzMxYzI1MTFlYTk0NDM4YmI2ODk0NDUyOTciDG1haW5Ob1JhbmRvbQ
https://thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Outside-Inside.pdf 
https://www.frieze.com/article/keith-pipers-jet-black-future-review-2022?
https://bclm.com/forging-ahead/utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article

]]> 2022-02-09 21:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2038928810 ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2090885604 Exploring local creative partners. Learning about the schools programme. They offer teacher cpd, workshops, artist visits, mindful marks as well as resources to support teacher facilitation around the gallery. ]]> 2022-03-11 18:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2090885604 ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2090886550 2022-03-11 18:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2090886550 ellenburgess3 https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2189491589 Today we visited the leather museum which had previously been well renowned for producing leather for famous people including the queen. Now it is a museum that included some precious examples of leather including bridles, stirrups and saddles. We made a dog collar as a group and then individually made key rings and air pod pouches. After we did a guided tour of Walsall and learned about its History. ]]> 2022-05-18 13:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenburgess3/zmy687y8fzh2peyt/wish/2189491589