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Cluster Schools

Creative Junction is working with eight ‘cluster schools’ across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes. These schools will lead a cluster of local schools in continuing to develop dialogue and share creative learning experiences. The purpose is to extend the opportunity from Creative Partnerships, to embed learning and to continue active sharing of practice.

 

Creative Junction will support the cluster schools in the following ways:

• Creative learning signposting, updates and inspiration

• Professional development and training

• Cross region/cross network sharing

• Communication, championing and advocacy

• Enabling cross-sector networking to include artists, cultural, creative and other relevant organisations

• Reflection and evaluation

The Cluster Schools are:

• Wexham Secondary School, Slough

Wexham School is piloting the production of an online drama series in Slough. Wexham and a cluster of schools will contribute to the production of episodes and maintenance of the website. The network will be supported by local media company Resource Productions Ltd.

• Arbour Vale Special School, Slough

The project will research various areas of the students’ local community and produce a film about opportunities for work and play in Slough for young people. Both students and staff will share ideas and reflection on the project with other schools using photography and film. The film will then be able to be used as part of a PSHE program in local schools, on Community Cohesion.

• West Wycombe Combined School, Bucks

West Wycombe Combined is renowned for its flexible and creative curriculum and innovative use of ICT. As a lead cluster school they will spread the current good practice to other schools and train members of staff, in the technical areas of ICT and how to apply it a range of learning contexts.

• West Kidlington Primary School, Oxfordshire

Building on the past three year’s work with the Creative Partnerships programme, West Kidlington and the cluster are exploring ways that storytelling can support children’s writing skills.

• Sunningwell C of E Primary School, Oxfordshire

The project will further the development of creative writing in these rural Oxfordshire schools. They are hoping to preserve stories and poems shared and passed down through the generations within their small villages. They will develop and extend the use of authors and local storytellers and the work will culminate in a grand creative writing shared event. The final creations will be performed, read and displayed using the natural backgrounds of the villages and areas around the schools.

• Sherrington C of E Primary School, Milton Keynes

Sherington will lead the cluster to develop more integrated and creative curricula, which they will continue to share, support and develop in the future.

• Slated Row School, Milton Keynes

The school will lead a performance-based project on the theme of ‘communication: diversity and inclusion’. As a special school serving children with moderate and complex difficulties in a culturally diverse community, the cluster see the theme of diversity and inclusion as open to interpretation in different and meaningful ways. Sign language and ‘foreign’ languages will underpin the work and performances.

• Long Meadow School, Milton Keynes

The cluster will be developing approaches to peer learning through the ceramic arts to raise self esteem, confidence, risk taking and social interactions. The links and shared experiences with children from other schools provide an ideal opportunity for these to happen.

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