Nursery World - Learning & Development: Creativity

How a creative thinking and learning project in Newham benefited both the children and practitioners who took part. By Anni McTavish

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The Creative Thinking and Learning Project (CTLP), in the London Borough of Newham, has over the course of a year deepened practitioners’ understanding of the Characteristics of Effective Learning and raised the quality of children’s creative experiences and critical thinking.

Sheringham Nursery and Children’s Centre acted as a ‘hub’ for the project, which involved the Manor Park Early Years Forum group of settings and childminder network. With its aim being to encourage and enhance children’s creative learning and critical thinking, the project focused primarily on:

‘Creating and thinking critically’ for some practitioners is not only hard to define and observe in practice, but is also difficult to support. The main challenge is how to develop the sensitive interactions with children that will promote learning and support Sustained Shared Thinking across all areas of learning.

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