Vision

Creativity in and through the arts, positioned at the heart of a holistic education.

Mission

To deliver local creative learning initiatives to embed creativity across the curriculum in Western Australian schools. The Creative Learning Program aims to utilise artistic processes to enhance students' creative learning capacities, overall engagement and health and wellbeing outcomes.

Objectives

The Creative Learning Program recognises that the following 5 program objectives are interdependent.

Primary objective

Enhance students’ and educators’ creative learning capabilities to increase engagement and support success across Western Australian curriculum areas and beyond.

Supporting objectives

• Build the pedagogical and partnership capacities of arts organisations, creative practitioners, education leaders and teachers in Western Australia.
• Foster creativity in schools by increasing access to, and participation in, arts, cultural and/or creative activities
• Improve the engagement of disadvantaged students in schools, particularly in low-socioeconomic, i.e. low-Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) schools and/or in regional areas.
• Enhance the health and wellbeing (mental, social, and/or physical) of students.

Your application should align with all program objectives.

Key program priorities 

• Low socioeconomic index and geographically disadvantaged schools.
• Programs exposing students to enriching arts experiences instilling curiosity, creativity, imagination and empathy.
• Programs engaging with students and educators in school years 2 to 9.
• Programs that demonstrate cross-curriculum links beyond the arts.
• Programs that incorporate elements of co-design with the schools, ensuring student and educator agency.
• Programs that incorporate creative learning capacity building for creative practitioners.
• Programs that incorporate creative learning capacity building for education leaders and/or teachers.
• Programs that provide a legacy for school communities.

Creativity for Schools

Creativity for Schools