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The role of creativity in all areas of young children's learning is being recognised in education policy This is an excellent time to be talking and thinking about creativity. For many years it seemed as if creativity had been relegated to the back seat in education. But now it is clearly making a comeback, as seen in several recent policy documents.

This is an excellent time to be talking and thinking about creativity. For many years it seemed as if creativity had been relegated to the back seat in education. But now it is clearly making a comeback, as seen in several recent policy documents.

* Birth to Three Matters, the guidance for supporting children in the first three years of life (DfES, 2002), stresses the importance of promoting children's creativity from their earliest years.

* Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (QCA, 2000) describes creativity as a cross-curricular theme as well as an area of learning in its own right. 'Creativity is fundamental to successful learning. Being creative enables children to make connections between one area of learning and another and to extend their understanding.'

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