Teacher in the UK fell (I suspect) wearily ironic about recent calls for more creativity in our work-from the very establishment which spent the last twenty-five years eradicating it. It doesn’t sit easily with a testing regime. But we welcome it, nevertheless. It can appear in many guises. Often, creativity is concerned with coincidence, or accident. At a creative writing workshop, the children write everyday object – pen, sun, dog - on cards. The cards are randomly paired and the children have to write comparisons-similes, in effect – based on the pairings. How is horse like a soldier? They start with an accident, and make something – sometimes, something quite insightful or beautiful. This notion of accident, of arbitrary, perhaps random starting points, is available in any lesson. Ask children to solve mathematical, historical or scientific problems, and give them some random tools to work with. What they have to do is create a solution out of the accident – to make the best of what they have, to turn a negative into a positive. Escaping prisoners of war (I believe) made authentic looking identity documents and banknotes out of blankets and mattresses. The restrictions demanded true creativity. I would imagine that any employer would be very enthusiastic about school leavers with such abilities.