Creative Transform (CT) sits at the Creative row and Transform column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real English lessons for KS4 that classify as CT, plus anti-examples that look CT but are not.

Pair podcast on literary analysis with audio quotes and sound design

Year 10 · 100 min · 1 device per pair (pair structure intentional: two voices and dialogue are part of the artefact)

Pairs record an eight-minute podcast analysing one motif across a novel they have studied. The podcast must include three pair-recorded readings of quotes from the text, a music bed chosen to match the motif's emotional weight, and a thesis defended with at least two pieces of evidence. Pairs publish to a class podcast feed.

Tools: GarageBand

Branching narrative built in Twine, played by classmates

Year 11 · 240 min · 1 device per student

Each student builds a branching short story in Twine. The story has at least three decision points and four endings. Each branch must explore a different theme (loyalty, identity, fear, hope). At the end of the project the class plays each other's stories and writes a short response on which branches felt the most justified by the writer's craft.

Tools: Twine

Multimedia thesis essay submitted as an interactive web page

Year 11 · 200 min · 1 device per student

Each student picks a contemporary global issue (gender pay gap, plastic pollution, AI in education). They build a single web page that argues a thesis. The page must include an embedded video clip with their commentary, hyperlinks to two primary sources, and an interactive thesis map (a clickable diagram showing claim, evidence, counterclaim, response). They peer-review three classmates' pages using a structured rubric.

Tools: Google Sites

Lessons that look CT but are not

Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.

This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.