Twenty five Swindon primary school teachers, including seven Headteachers, braved damp weather to take part in a range of creative writing and problem-solving activities based on a quest model – the search for hidden Civil War treasure.
 

 

The QUEST Project, which involves eight Swindon primary schools, aims to raise pupils’ achievement in writing and/or maths, and to build the capacity of schools to lead, manage, mentor, model and sustain creative teaching and learning strategies for writing and/or maths.
 

 

The project, which will run throughout the academic year, began in November 2008 as the teachers undertook various challenges within Lydiard House, the Church, the Stable Block, the Walled Garden and even the Ice House. They were supported by a variety of artists such as a poet, a story teller and Mobile Media, who will help to further develop teachers as writers/mathematicians themselves so that they can model good practice with their pupils through their own first-hand experience.

 

There will be a variety of follow-up activities in the coming months, some of which will involve schools sharing their successful creative teaching and learning strategies and exemplar teaching materials being produced for dissemination across all schools within Swindon.

 

 

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