1. Introduction

This project is designed to illustrate aspects of creativity in primary schools

Paul Tyler receiving his Primary Science Teaching Award in 2013

This website is the seventh in a series of online materials designed to share examples of creative practice. These illustrations of teaching and learning are designed to help teachers appreciate what creativity might look like in their classrooms.

These classroom episodes are presented to highlight features of teacher’s creative practice and the nature of creativity that emerges between children in the process of learning.

Each of these web pages showcase a range of episodes from Primary Science Teaching Award (PSTA) award winners’ classrooms.

Mr Tyler demonstrates how encouraging the children to design, make and test paper aeroplanes enables them with the opportunity to think creativity and critically. The lesson draws on the children’s understanding of forces and offers them ways to experiment and find out more.


Mr Tyler describes what it means to be a creative teacher.

He also describes his love for learning and how this has a direct effect on his science teaching.

Inaya's enthusiasm for what she does in science, with Mr Tyler, has spilled over into her home-life.