Abstract
The inclusion of creative methods in primary school teaching can allow the pupil to regularly experience feelings of competence, belonging, success and joy in his own educational process, pro-creative factors and conditions are respected (Hlavsa, 1986), based on the needs and personality characteristics of the pupil, and factors and anti-creative conditions in the school environment, influenced mainly by the teacher and the material-technical environment. I will present the creative-educational program Cool Animal School - Learning through joy (CAS), which I originally created as a supporting didactic material for teaching English to my former pupils in grades 1-5. year. Its purpose was to introduce pupils to vocabulary from various thematic areas in a playful and natural way and to connect it with other educational areas using the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) method. It is a collection of a total of fifty versed texts about animals in English, some of which have been set to music (they are played, for example, on Czech Radio - Radio Junior). I further developed creative tasks for them, which were research-verified as part of my diploma thesis from the point of view of the development of creativity in the fields of art, literature, drama and music with other interdisciplinary overlaps. In research in my dissertation
The development of creativity and originality in the learning processes of a 1st grade student. Furthermore, this set of tasks was verified by primary schools as an effective means of developing the individuality of the pupil within the synergistic development of key competences, achieving the goals of cross-cutting topics, especially Personality and Social Education, and building so-called "soft skills".