Creative Development

Creative Development

Requirements

At Breaside children’s creativity is of the utmost importance and can be seen in and around the school. Our children will be extended in all areas and support for their curiosity, exploration and play will be provided. Opportunities to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings, are also provided.

What Creative Development means for Breaside children

■■ Creativity is about taking risks and making connections and is strongly linked to play.

■■ Creativity at Breaside emerges as children become absorbed in action and explorations of their own ideas, expressing them through movement, making and transforming things using media and materials such as crayons, paints, scissors, words, sounds, movement, props and make-believe.

■■ Creativity involves our children in initiating their own learning and making choices and decisions.

■■ Children’s responses to what they see, hear and experience through their senses are individual and the way they represent their experiences is unique and valuable at Breaside.

■■ Being creative enables our youngest children to explore many processes, media and materials and to make new things emerge as a result.

How Breaside effectively implements this area of Learning and Development

Our children are given the best opportunity for effective development and learning in Creative Development in the following areas.

Positive Relationships

■■ We ensure our children feel secure enough to ‘have a go’, learn new things and be adventurous.

■■ Our children are valued in what they can do and children’s own ideas rather than expecting them to reproduce someone else’s picture, dance or model, for example.

■■ Opportunities are given for children to work alongside artists and other creative adults so that they see at first hand different ways of expressing and communicating ideas and different responses to media and materials.

■■ Children’s individual specific religious or cultural beliefs relating to particular forms of art or methods of representation are respected at Breaside.