How valued is cretivity in primary education?

[beck36]

I think my son's school is pretty creative but after having a chat with his teacher this afternoon and seeing his timetable I'm really wondering where it fits into what they do / how they learn. They follow the Edison Curriculum at the school which I thought was broader and project based. He's just started YR 3.

oops - so creative can't even spell it.....

How long is a piece of string?

Depends entirely on the school.

Generally, most primary schools still follow the one hour of literacy/one hour of numeracy per day model. Foundation subjects may be taught as a discrete subject or as part of a topic-based creative curriculum that may also be extended into literacy and numeracy; e.g. word problems in numeracy may be based on Egyptians or space rather than just being word problems about apples and pounds.

Timetables and teaching methods vary widely from school to school. Some favour an arty topic-based creative curriculum approach that encompasses all areas of the curriculum and others believe that subjects should be taught on their own.

Some schools use rote learning, others favour a more kinaesthetic approach.

Lots of schools claim they follow a creative curriculum (which is about as creative as colouring by numbers) so really it depends on how you define creativity ... IMHO a tenuous link to a topic isn't creative.
Badgercub I don't know any primary schools in my area that follow the literacy hour (actually none of the schools I've taught in have ever followed it) and technically there was never a numeracy hour ...

It completely depends on the school.

Mrz I don't mean the literacy hour, rather one hour that is specifically dedicated to literacy and numeracy each day. I've not taught in or seen a school in our area that doesn't have one hour of literacy and numeracy per day, still. Always in the morning too - the timetables are all clones of one another.

We don't have an hour specifically dedicated to literacy and numeracy each day Badgercub.

schools round here are big on literacy and numeracy hour, we even have it on our tt for Year R? it doesn't translate into an hour sitting down, obviously - but apparently it still needs to be on paper

We don't find an hour long enough for extended writing

so to answer your question op I'd say - not very!
demonstrable 'progress' is the order of the day