Questionning and Challenging

Creative pupils are curious, question and challenge, and don’t always follow rules. They:

• Ask ‘why?’ ‘how?’ ‘what if?’
• Ask unusual questions.
• Respond to ideas, questions, tasks or problems in a surprising way.
• Challenge conventions and their won and other’s assumptions.
• Think independently.

Making connections and seeing relationships

Creative pupils:
• Recognise the significance of their knowledge and previous experience.
• Use analogies and metaphors.
• Look for patterns and apply their knowledge and experience.
• Communicate their ideas in novel or unexpected ways.

Envisaging what might be

Creative pupils:
• Imagine, seeing thinks in the mind’s eye.
• See possibilities, problems and challenges.
• Ask ‘what if?’
• Visualise alternatives.
• Look at and think about things differently and from different points of view.