Throughout the year, students were engaged in activities that encouraged creative thinking skills.  Creative Thinking involves the generation of ideas and concepts that are novel and innovative in the context in which they are generated, reflection on their value to the individual or others, and the development of chosen ideas and concepts from thought to reality.

Creative Thinking is related to Critical and Reflective Thinking, which encompasses a set of abilities that students use to examine their own thinking and that of others. This involves making judgments based on reasoning, where students consider options, analyze options using specific criteria, and draw conclusions.

Using "I Can" Statements, students can develop insight into their own learning and understand where to go next with their learning:

• I get ideas when I play.

• I can get new ideas or build on or combine other people’s ideas to create new things within the constraints of a form, a problem, or materials.

• I can get new ideas or build on or combine other people’s ideas to create new things within the constraints of a form, a problem, or materials.

• I can get new ideas or reinterpret others’ ideas in novel ways.

• I can think “outside the box” to get innovative ideas and persevere to develop them.

• I can develop a body of creative work over time in an area of interest or passion.