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Learning & Development: Creativity - Variations on a theme

Creativity is the order of the day where a whole primary school is a role-play area. Gayle Goshorn discovers the Fulbridge Way.

Parents applying for a place for their child at the oversubscribed Fulbridge Primary School in Peterborough might wonder what they're in for when they wait outside the head teacher's office surrounded by ghoulish faces, bats, cobwebs, a skeleton in chains, a spooky story handwritten on the wall, and on the ceiling an inscription, 'The Dungeon Master has let you out of the dungeon this time, but if you dare return ...'.

It's all to further the creative curriculum as part of what is proudly thought of as the Fulbridge Way. Last September the school became one of 26 National Schools of Creativity named in the second round of a programme run by the Government initiative Creative Partnerships.

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