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  1. Blog category
    •  Arts Award
    •  Artsmark Platinum
    •  creative careers

    Artsmark and Arts Award is a winning formula for success

    7 October 2018

    Delivering Arts Award’s range of qualifications can help schools meet the Artsmark criteria – enabling personalised delivery, facilitating progress, developing leadership skills and offering CPD opportunities for teaching staff.

  2. Blog category
    •  Artsmark Platinum
    •  secondary school

    Be the best you can be with Artsmark

    4 October 2018

    The Artsmark Award has been a part of Havelock Academy for over ten years now, holding a Gold award under the previous framework, and in 2017 we gained our Platinum Award in the new, refreshed framework.

    Male pupil and teacher looking at a tablet screen
  3. Blog category
    •  youth offending teams

    Artsmark and youth offending teams

    7 September 2018

    Engaging young people in arts projects can lead to greater participation in education and work-related activities and contribute to desistance.

    Young person demonstrating methods of tote bag decoration as part of a YOT project at Tate Exchange
  4. Blog category
    •  Artsmark Partner
    •  cross-curricular

    Supporting students to find their voice through creative writing

    28 August 2018

    Deborah May from creative writing charity First Story, an Artsmark Partner, tells us how their programmes can help you put creative writing at the heart of your Artsmark adventure.

    Young female pupil smiling and writing at a First Story workshop in Oxford
  5. Blog category
    •  Artsmark Celebration Week

    A great year for Artsmark

    13 August 2018

    Over the summer we’ve been reflecting on all the great things we achieved last year and wanted to say a big THANK YOU to our Artsmark community for helping us get to where we are today

    Matthew Bourne's New Adventures. ReBourne project with Patten School based on Cinderella, performed at Sadlers Wells Jan 2018
  6. Blog category
    •  Artsmark Partner

    Let's Play with the National Theatre

    25 April 2018

    Our Artsmark Partners, the National Theatre, talk to us about their offer for Artsmark schools focussing on their newly launched initiative Let’s Play – a programme that supports primary schools to create outstanding theatre and embed drama across the curriculum.

    National Theatre's Lets Play programme for primary schools
  7. Blog category
    •  cross-curricular
    •  Artsmark Platinum
    •  secondary school

    School should be more than merely passing exams

    2 March 2018

    Peter Robinson from Our Lady's Catholic High School talked to The Guardian about how achieving an Artsmark Platinum Award can change the life of a school.

  8. Blog category
    •  dance
    •  cross-curricular
    •  primary school

    Activating Dance in Primary School

    31 January 2018

    Claire Somerville, Head of Children and Young People’s Dance at One Dance UK, explains more about the PE & Sport Premium and how it can be used to benefit dance in primary schools.