Creativity is central to all that goes on at Lewes New School.
Throughout the day, teachers and pupils work together in small dynamic groups. In response to a range of real experiences they have shared, such as a visit to an exhibition or the reading of a text, children ask questions, share thoughts, establish themes and develop ideas. The teacher’s role is to facilitate the process that unfolds, motivating, challenging and inspiring the group as they move from initial ideas to published work. What results is a deeply creative collective learning experience.
Children learn to understand the nature of creative learning and the necessity to accept the joys and discomforts that it involves such as the making of mistakes; the taking of risks and the capacity to persevere through the range of challenges that inevitably arise.
