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Inspiring Moments
Creative Wellbeing Fund Report
The Creative Wellbeing fund supported six projects across Scotland and brought together learning communities and creative partners to work together to find innovative solutions to increasing learners' wellbeing and a wider sense of achievement...
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Creative Curriculum Fund
The purpose of this fund was to support secondary schools to embed creativity across their thinking, behaviours and systems for the long-term benefits to learners, whilst tackling a current curriculum challenge specific to the individual school...
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Creativity in S.T.E.M. at Ratho Primary School
Presentation by P6 learners from Ratho Primary School, Edinburgh, explained their work as primary STEM Leaders before leading the delegates through a S...
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“An inherent link seems to exist between creativity and science and mathematics education...”
—Creative Little Scientists, EU Funded Research Project
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“I want us all to think about new and creative ways to … encourage young people to create and build and invent — to be makers of things, not just consumers of things...”
—Barack Obama, U.S. President
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Mutual Curiosity: A look at participatory practice in Scotland
Scotland’s cultural sector has an excellent reputation for its participatory practice – artists and people working creatively together in communities, education contexts and other areas of public life such as social care and justice...
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Above Scotland - Architecture and Design Scotland
Above Scotland took an aerial photography exhibition as the starting point for an ambitious creative journey, empowering schools to make a difference to their local environment of such ambition that it could be photographed from the air...
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“Our research shows that in an Outperforming organisation, creativity is integral to success...”
—Investors in People
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“Creativity is a new: purpose, process, procedure, thought, action, style, content...”
—Professor George G. Youngson, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
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“The high-skilled minority (characterised by their creativity, analytical and problem solving capabilities and communication skills) will have strong bargaining power in the labour market, whilst the low-skilled will bear the brunt of the drive for flexibility and cost reduction...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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Residency in Dunning Primary
This project placed a creativity practitioner in a rural primary school for one academic year...
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“Success in love involves...”
—Robert J. Sternberg, Oklahoma State University
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Bankhead: Disrupting Fairness and Equality
Hidden Giants was invited to work with Bankhead Primary, a school in Rutherglen on the outskirts of south Glasgow...
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“Science and arts are not an either/or...”
—Creative Industries Federation
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“The government and the Cultural and Creative Industries need to take a united and coherent approach that guarantees equal access for everyone to a rich cultural education and the opportunity to live a creative life...”
—Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth - The Warwick Commission
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“The global labour market in 2030 is likely to be highly competitive...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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“It goes far beyond the traditional world of art and music...”
—Shantanu Narayen, Adobe President and CEO
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“Infants are extreme explorers; they possess qualities that are often lost by adulthood: curiosity, novelty seeking, always learning (and adapting) without much hesitation, and perhaps most importantly, not being afraid of failing...”
—Rachel Wu - Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, New York