New Approaches to Learning Strand 2009

5x5x5 = Creativity - £40,000
Towards project costs over two years for the Creative Curriculum Laboratory, an action research project in primary schools that puts creativity at the heart of whole school change.

Birmingham City University - £86,700
Towards costs over three years to research children's mathematical understanding in Early Years and Key Stage 1, in schools in disadvantaged areas.

Canterbury Christ Church University College - £46,132
Towards research and development costs for 'Baby Rooms' to research how babies are being looked after in nursery settings and the knowledge, understanding and aspirations of the practitioners.

Catch Up - £195,000
Towards the costs over three years of developing innovative digital games to motivate and support learners who struggle with numeracy.

Citizen Organising Foundation - £27,500
Towards piloting a programme to embed active citizenship in schools.

Drake Music - £84,750
Towards project costs over three years to overcome barriers to accreditation in music education for disabled pupils.

Institute of Education - £45,897
Towards work exploring the use of film in Key Stage 3 modern foreign language curriculum.

Institute of Education - £1,732
Towards research and project costs.

Institute for Fiscal Studies - £54,565
Towards research costs of a guide on 'disadvantaged pupil premium'.

Institute of Welsh Affairs - £34,210
Towards research into improving the performance of Welsh School children aged 11 to 14.

Liverpool John Moores University - £62,768
Towards project costs over three years to evaluate training and recently qualified teacher's implementation of the new statutory National Curriculum guidance on creativity.

Roehampton University - £73,422
Towards research over two years to develop new approaches to music education for children with severe or profound learning difficulties.

Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama - £75,000
Towards the costs of exploring new approaches to training instrumental teachers.

Swansea University - £139,790
Towards project costs over two years to evaluate the application of ICT to support sustained shared thinking in the home learning environmental and in pre-school settings.

The Place - £64,085
Towards project costs to research the use of interactive digital resources, dance and movement as part of a multi-sensory, topic-based approach to teaching and learning in the Primary Curriculum.

UK Youth - £10,000
Towards the costs of a seminar and report to develop a manifesto for informal education.

United Kingdom Literacy Association - £76,114
Towards the cost of developing innovative approaches to building 21st century school reading communities.

University of Aberdeen - £59,228
Towards project costs to assess the impact of new approaches to teaching modern foreign language in secondary schools.

University of Cambridge - £110,000
Towards project costs over two years.

University of Glasgow - £78,000
Towards project costs over two years to develop a novel, connected and engaging curriculum for the education of 5-15 year olds in Scotland, across science, technology, engineering and maths.

University of Nottingham - £41,630
Towards research and evaluation costs to develop a new approach to teaching maths at Key Stage 3.

University of Winchester - £85,000
Towards project costs over two years to develop practical knowledge about how the process of crafting and reflecting on a developing product strengthens wider confidence and capacity to learn.

University of Wolverhampton - £43,446
Towards project costs to investigate how far reflective science materials can successfully support an innovative and effective approach to science teaching and learning at Key Stage 4.

University of York - £968
Towards research, project and evaluation costs.

Total - £1,535,937
No of Grants - 24

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