Secondary Schools

Does it work?

We engage the disengaged

C&T’s blend of technology and performance makes sense to a generation of digitally confident young people. It means we can draw disengaged students into creative learning: curriculum subjects feel more relevant and more playful, school attendance improves for students on alternative curricula and boys opt for creative subjects in which boys are conventionally under-represented.

Arts Council England made a short case study (above) of a group of year 9 boys in our partner school in Cullingworth, Bradford. Here they talk about how it’s changed their perceptions.

We develop teachers

We want every teacher in your school to be confident in a range of creative teaching techniques that get the best from your students. This in-class, professional development is personalised to the very different needs to be found across your staff. And because of our solid relationship with each school, every teacher is emboldened to try new things, secure in the knowledge that we’ll be there to support them as they get to grips with new pedagogies.

Here some teachers and senior leadership teachers talk about the impact it’s made for them.

We raise standards

As well as raising aspirations, we raise standards. Evaluation is a fundamental part of our method, and from this we know from teachers that C&T helps students improve written work, the quality of classroom discussion, GCSE option uptake and a range of other indicators.

For example, as a result of a concentrated programme of work in one partner school’s History department:
Increased attainment particularly in level 6+ and amongst boys
130% increase in GCSE option uptake

More than doubling of boys opting for History GCSE
94% of students exceeding Fischer Family Trust predictions

Click here to see the full case study , where teachers and students about what they got out of it.

We build community cohesion

Every school wants to do more in and for their community, and the day-to-day pressures of school life often get in the way. We deliver high quality community engagement for our partner secondary schools in many ways, depending on their needs: feeder primaries, disabled adults, PRUs, special schools, parents of early-years children, and so on.

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