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How can Artsmark support the creative lives of young people?
As we begin delivering our new ten-year strategy, Let’s Create, our Children and Young People team are working hard to ensure that all youth engagement projects play a key role in helping us achieve our vision.
For Artsmark Celebration Week, Kevin Jones, one of the Artsmark assessors, reflects on the significance of cultural collaborations in the Artsmark Framework.
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An arts-rich curriculum make for happy children
, 10 minute readAs schools readjust to life after the pandemic, Victor Guerro (Curriculum Lead in Creative Arts at Hillyfield Primary Academy), discusses the power that art and creativity have when embedded into the curriculum.
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Day to Create: a visit from our Youth Advisory Board
, 5 minute readAbby, a member of the Youth Advisory Board, reflects on her visit to an Artsmark school during their #DaytoCreate celebrations.
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Artsmark and Arts Award is a winning formula for success
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.
The journey towards Artsmark Gold for River Beach has been long and peppered with challenges thanks to Covid-19, but embedding creativity into the curriculum really paid off when Ofsted came calling. Sandra Ackerman, Arts Specialist Teacher, talks about their deep dive into art.
Over the past few weeks we’ve been sharing resources about the importance of diversity within schools, how to talk to young people about race and racism and showing our support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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.