For staff
Creative recognition is logged with the activity staff choose — matching how your school already talks about gifts and talents. Certificates and chronicle pages can reflect creative milestones.
Five WellsExplore a Well
Creative Well
Curiosity, ideas, and expressive learning.
The Creative Well celebrates imagination, problem-solving, and the courage to try something new. It covers art, music, writing, design, and inventive thinking — in subjects and beyond the timetable.
What this Well consists of
The Creative Well gives staff shared language for experiences beyond a single subject grade — clubs, corridors, liturgy, playtimes, and community life.
- Original ideas and imaginative work
- Music, art, drama, and design
- Curiosity and asking good questions
- Perseverance when learning a new skill
- Sharing creative work with others
Examples staff might recognise
Schools define their own activity names; these are typical Creative moments primary colleagues celebrate.
- Offered an inventive solution in a lesson
- Performed or shared creative work confidently
- Persisted with a skill that was new or difficult
- Asked a question that deepened the class discussion
- Contributed to a display, project, or performance
In the Five Wells platform
What the Creative Well does
For pupils & families
Children see creative strengths build over time. In Imagination Island (when Five Wells Journey is enabled), creative participation becomes part of a visible journey, not a forgotten comment in a planner.
For leaders
Compare Creative recognition across year groups and subgroups to see whether expressive opportunities are reaching every pupil — not only those already in the spotlight.
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