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Creative Education Trust's Public Speaking and Essay Prizes 2020.
Creative Education Trust's Public Speaking and Essay Prizes 2020.
Issue no. 19 of Connected magazine features lively contributions from the network.
This year, the fourth Creative Education Trust Creative Writing Competition took place virtually with year 8 competition finalists and English teachers joining children’s author and television screenwriter, Harry Oulton, in an online workshop.
During the national lockdown we moved our printed cross-Trust magazine online, publishing fortnightly news stories and articles in Still Connected.
After an unprecedented year in which schools were closed and public examinations did not take place, Creative Education Trust congratulates every year 11 and year 13 pupil for their tenacity in completing the necessary requirements of their courses of study. A sample of the outstanding results include:
The Department for Education has published its guidelines for the full opening of schools in September, built on the critical need to reduce the number of contacts between children and staff. This is to be achieved both by keeping groups consistent (the same individuals always together) and by keeping individuals within those groups a safe distance apart.
This year saw the relaunch of Creative Education Trust’s much-loved photography competition, inspired by the late Michael Dickson who was a founding trustee.
Update 29 May 2020
Update 18 May 2020
From Monday 23 March Creative Education Trust schools will be closed to most pupils until further notice.
Artist and map-maker, Mychael Barratt, visited Thistley Hough Academy on 5 February to present his narrative maps to year 9s and support their research about Stoke-on-Trent.
On Friday 31 January, specially selected experts – year 9 students themselves – travelled to London from as far as Nottingham, Great Yarmouth and Stoke-on-Trent for an important research event.