The School Coordinator plays a key leadership role in welcoming and supporting Student Teachers, meeting with Student Teachers and Mentor Teachers. The School Coordinator’s role includes:

• Developing a creative learning community across the school
• to have knowledge, understanding and enthusiasm for creative teaching and learning as a key to raising achievement, aspiration and motivation
• to build a community of creative learning practice across the school, involving all departments as appropriate
• to involve parents extensively throughout the programme
• to develop, through dialogue with the wider school community, an enquiry based approach which addresses a range of issues relevant to the broader developmental needs of the school and its learners and is linked to the school improvement plan
• to facilitate the long-term development of creative teaching and learning at a structural and systemic level, using the Creative School Development Framework and other resources
• to act as a facilitator in school, able to translate the school’s vision for creative learning into practical implementation
• to ensure that children and young people play a meaningful and active role in learning that can truly reflect their interests, needs and enthusiasms
• to take overall responsibility for programme and project management, delegating extensively across the school community and ensuring roles and responsibilities are understood clearly by all
• to coordinate, in partnership with the Creative Agent, meetings and activities with creative practitioners, school staff and other partners
• to ensure that external partners engaged in the programme are able to develop appropriate communications across the school community
• to ensure all programme activity is carried out with due regard to health and safety and the safeguarding of children and young people
• to ensure that all monitoring and evaluation requirements are fulfilled and that partners commit to developing reflective practice throughout the programme