Updated July 2004

The new academic year will include three major strands of activity

The expansion of Creative Partnerships now includes the Wolverhampton Excellence in Cities Action Zone and this will operate as a cluster around Deansfield High School – there are already plans to develop working partnerships with regeneration and Persimmon Homes and new links with Wolverhampton College; we also hope to collaborate with the Drug Action team and First Leisure to stage a third pupil led night at Atlantis.

Working with the Creative Industries Centre at the Science park has allowed the successful development of a number of new businesses in graphic design, animation and theatre in education; this will be complimented by additional research into income generation through production and publishing with the University.

Plans to develop alternative curriculum models at KS4 in Walsall are emerging through links with the PRU and Community Arts team; this will allow pupils to become engaged in arts led projects over an academic year and is a progression from the two years of work with Sneyd School, which has attracted very positive recognition from Ofsted and the Gulbenkian Foundation.