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Creative and change orientated

Creativity is a set of beliefs and attitudes as much as it is a toolbox of skills and knowledge. A creative outlook leads naturally to high-quality classroom activities carried out by creative learners. Creativity can also be evolutionary, being an innovative changer and adapting what you do to develop rather than invent something new.

To succeed in a world characterised by rapid change and increased complexity, Christleton High School must grow, develop, adapt creatively to, and take charge of change so that we can create our preferable future. Continual improvement - we are a learning organisation that always strives to make our best better. We want our school to fizz with new ideas and fresh thinking. We will empower people to use their imagination, give them the freedom to explore, take risks and experiment.

"Every truth has four corners: as a teacher, I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three"
Confucius

Key behaviours

• A belief that creativity can change things and improve things,
• An ability to see familiar things in new and different ways,
• A belief that mistakes are to be celebrated, learned from, and used to add momentum to progress,
• We want colleagues who are not afraid to experiment in the classroom, new resources, new approaches to pedagogy; if it doesn’t work - don’t do it again; if it does, do more of it and share it - an attitude of ‘smart risk-taking.’
• A belief that creative potential is inside everyone and can be found everywhere,
• An ability to use both analytic and holistic thinking to solve problems uniquely,
• Not be bound by orthodoxy - have an attitude of openness to new ideas and experiences,
• Be a life-long learner,
• Things can only be changed through hard work, high expectations and evidence-driven approaches,
• Be adaptive in lessons; if things are not going well - change the direction of learning.