People being imaginative, inventive, taking risks and challenging convention?
Do you think about originality and the value of what people produce?
Perhaps you think you can only be creative if you are artistic.

A good starting point for defining creativity is 'All our futures: Creativity, culture and education', the National Advisory Committee's report (DfEE, 1999). This report states that we are all, or can be, creative to a lesser or greater degree if we are given the opportunity. The definition of creativity in the report is broken down into four characteristics:

Debating the characteristics highlighted by this definition can be a helpful starting point for agreeing what your school actually means by creativity.

Click on the link below to access the National Curriculum in Action website on Creativity:

This website gives practical ideas on how to promote pupils’ creative thinking and behaviour.

At the heart of the materials are examples of pupils’ creativity across the National Curriculum.