Links

You may find the following national links useful when thinking about the arts in your area

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• Art Teaching Ideas
  Contains downloadable resources for teachers of 5-11-year-olds.
• Artswork
  Artswork is an independent youth arts development agency committed to developing creative opportunities for young people aged 12-25.
• artscape
  The artscape directory features organisations and individual artists who undertake educational work.
• Arts On The Move
  Arts On The Move specialises in producing high quality drama and theatre workshops, training courses and seminars.
• Arts Inform
  Arts Inform builds relationships between professionals in the cultural industries and schools and colleges, and provides curriculum-based programmes. It is also developing models of good practice for work-based learning and teacher mentoring, in partnership with arts and cultural organisations.
• Arts4Schools
  Art resources for teachers and students.
• Arts Award
  The Arts Award is a national qualification for 11-25 year olds that recognises young people's development as artists and arts leaders. Taking part in an Arts Award develops creative and personal skills for further education or employment.
• ARTS alive!
  ARTS alive! is the outcome of a QCA curriculum development project set up to identify ways in which the contribution of the arts to pupils' education can be maximised.
• Artists in Schools
  Resource of artists offering workshops for schools throughout London and in the South East, East Anglia and East and West Midlands areas.
• Aesop's Touring Theatre Company
  Specialises in touring schools, art centres and theatres nationally throughout the year with plays and workshops specifically written and designed for nursery, infant and junior age groups.
• Action for Children's Arts
  Action for Children's Arts is a national membership organisation for professionals working in children's arts. The site lists forthcoming arts performances, conferences and workshops.
• Access Art
  Access Art is a resource bank for digital and visual arts designed for pupils, students, teachers, gallery educators and artists including online workshops and learning spaces.

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• 24 Hour Museum
  24 Hour Museum is a monthly guide to news, exhibitions and events at museums and galleries around the country. The site features a teacher's section and an interactive zone for children aged 4-11.

B

• British Film Institute
  The British Film Institute offers opportunities for people throughout the UK to experience, enjoy and discover more about film and the moving image culture.
• Blast
  BBC Blast is an interactive site for young people to share ideas and showcase their talent in art, dance, film, music and writing.
• Bigfoot Theatre Company
  Bigfoot Theatre Company is a UK wide charity that promotes theatre arts as a tool to educate and empower children and teachers.
• www.bowarts.org/
  An arts educational charity based in East London. Offer artists studios, an education programme and run a contemporary art gallery called The Nunnery.
   

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• Creative People
  A national network providing advice and guidance to support the professional development of people working in the arts and crafts.
• Creative Partnerships
  Creative Partnerships establishes collaborative partnerships between schools and arts professionals, providing opportunities for school children across England to develop creativity in learning.
• Creative Exchange
  Creative Exchange exists to educate people about the social role of arts and culture.
• Council for Dance Education and Training (CDET)
  The Council for Dance Education and Training (CDET) is the national standards body for the professional dance industry. It accredits programmes of training in vocational dance schools and offers a free and comprehensive information service on all aspects of vocational dance provision to students, parents, teachers, dance artists and employers.
• Conference of Drama Schools
  The Conference of Drama Schools comprises Britain's 21 leading drama schools, setting and maintaining standards of training within the drama sector and providing listings of drama courses on offer to prospective students.
• Centre for Creative Communities
  The Centre for Creative Communities generates local community development and facilitates partnerships among diverse sectors of society centred around arts and creativity.
• Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
  The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is an educational centre for schools and teachers, parents, teaching assistants and other educators. CLPE has a national and international reputation for its work in the fields of language, literacy and assessment.
• CfBT Education Trust
  CfBT is an education consultancy and service organisation providing education for public benefit.
• CapeUK
  CapeUK is an independent research and development agency focusing on exploring and developing innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
• Campaign for Drawing
  The campaign for drawing. Aims to get people to draw through events and educational programmes.
• www.thechildrensbookshow.com
  an annual tour of children's authors and illustrators from the UK and abroad. The theme for this, our 9th Bookshow, is Simply the Best, and we have an exciting ...
• www.cineclub.org.uk
  Cineclub is a national organisation which provides schools with film watching and filmmaking programmes through workshops and teacher CPD.

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• DfES The Standards Site
  DfES The Standards Site guidance on developing the needs of gifted and talented children.
• Drake Music Project
  The Drake Music Project enables disabled children and adults who are unable to play conventional musical instruments to discover their musical abilities and explore, compose and perform their own music.
• DfES Music and Dance scheme
  Run by the Department for Education and Skills, the aim of the scheme is to help identify and assist children with exceptional potential, regardless of their personal circumstances, to benefit from world-class specialist training as part of a broad and balanced education.
• Design Council
  Learn about design on the Design Council's web pages.
• Dance 4
  Dance 4 is the National Dance Agency based in Nottingham. It produces new dance works as well as offering professional training and advice to dance artists.
• Drama in Schools 
  Published by Arts Council England in 2003 and available to download, this book describes the place of drama in a broad and balanced curriculum; reflects good practice in drama provision and provides guidance on what constitutes pupil progression in all key stages.

E

• Education group
  Education Group is a provider of creative and multicultural workshops to Primary Schools throughout the UK.
• English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN)
  The English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN) is a project proposed by Artswork to support and develop arts provision and arts opportunities for young people in England.
• Every Object Tells A Story
  An interactive collection of stories about objects people care about, including museum objects, visual arts, fashion, entertainment and childhood objects.

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• Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT)
  Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) is the UK's leading organisation for commissioning and presentation of artists' film video and new media. The FACT Centre houses galleries, cinemas and exhibition and support spaces for artists.
• www.future-creative.org Future Creative CIC is a social enterprise organisation which provides high quality creative learning, business training, professional development and community engagement opportunities to those who work in education, creative, cultural, public and business sectors.

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• Hilal Dance
  The Suraya Hilal and her London-based dance company teach and perform contemporary Egytian music and dance. They have toured extensively around Europe.
• Heritage Lottery Fund
  The Heritage Lottery Fund awards funding to projects that enable communities to celebrate, look after and learn more about this country's diverse heritage.
• www.hobgoblintheatrecompany.co.uk a touring theatre in education company that offer plays and drama workshops for Primary Schools. We specialise in interactive KS2 History plays.

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• International Drama/Theater and Education Association (IDEA)
  The International Drama/Theater and Education Association (IDEA) represents more than 50 countries around the world. It aims to promote and advocate drama and theatre as part of a holistic education and to provide an international forum for those working as drama and theatre educators throughout the world.
• Investigation into arts-rich schools, October 2002
  A report by the QCA featuring 11 examples of arts-rich schools, including four primary schools, two special schools and five secondary schools which achieved Artsmark Gold in 2001.

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• Laban
  One of Europe's leading dance conservatories offering undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in contemporary dance artist training and professional development.
• Learning and Skills Council
  National organisation responsible for post-16 education and training in England, excluding the university sector.

M

• MusicTeachers
  MusicTeachers.co.uk aims to support musicians in every aspect of education and performance.
• Music Manifesto
  Music Manifesto offers a strategy and set of priorities for the next 3-5 years which is intended to become a benchmark for future musical opportunities for children and young people.
• Music for Youth
  Provides opportunities for young people to perform before live audiences at a national and regional level.
• Music for Change
  Music for Change is an educational charity that promotes awareness, understanding and respect for cultural diversity through music and the performing arts.
• Music:ed
  A magazine style approach to the music curriculum for schools, after school clubs and lifelong learning.
• Music and Dance Scheme
  The Music and Dance Scheme helps to identify and assist children with exceptional potential to benefit from specialist training as part of a balanced education.
• Music Advice Guide
  The Music Advice Guide is the UK's online portal for the music industry and music education.

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• National Drama
  National Drama's journal features a membership area plus events, news and publications concerning National Drama and drama in education.
• National Foundation for Educational Research
  Carries out research and provides information services.
• National Organisation for Pupil Referral Units
  The National Organisation for Pupil Referral Units site lists PRU news, conferences and education links.
• National Organisation for Pupil Referral Units: Arts Project
  PRU arts project from the National Organisation of Pupil Referral Units.
• National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
  The leading national authority on art, craft and design in education in the UK.
• National Dance Teachers Association
  The National Dance Teachers Association is a membership organisation supporting dance teachers at all key stages and working to ensure all young people in the UK have access to high quality dance education in schools.
• National Curriculum in Action
  National Curriculum in Action gives practical ideas on how to promote pupils' creative thinking and behaviour.
• National Association of Youth Orchestras
  Provides education and training opportunities.
• National Association of Writers in Education
  The National Association of Writers in Education supports the development of creative writing of all genres in education and community settings throughout the UK.
• National Association of Music Educators (NAME)
  NAME is the professional association which represents all those involved in music education: advisers, inspectors, consultants, teachers in schools, instrumental teachers, heads of instrumental services, lecturers working in teacher education and in conservatoires, community musicians, publishers and other retailers.
• National Association for the Teaching of English
  NATE is the UK subject teacher association for all aspects of English from pre-school to university. NATE supports effective teaching and learning, keeps teachers informed about current developments and provides them with a voice at a national level.
• Noise Festival
  Noise is the national showcase for the creative talent of young people under 25.

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• Osun Arts Foundation
  Osun Arts Foundation, based in Liverpool, develops African Arts projects in schools. OAF engages schoolchildren and their teachers in the creative process to share their diversity and cultures. It also tours its works to arts venues regionally and nationally.
• Online Register of Consultants and Trainers for the Arts
  Online register of consultants and trainers for the arts, also includes guidelines on choosing and using consultants.

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• Pals Productions
  PALS is an educational theatre company that puts on curriculum-linked performances and workshops for children at key stages 1 and 2, in schools across the UK. The website lists upcoming performances.
• Performing Right Society
  The Performing Right Society collects and distributes licence fees for the public performance and broadcast of musical works.

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• Random Dance
  Random Dance produces innovative and high quality contemporary dance, exploring the uses of new technology. It carries out extensive national and international touring, commissions and site-specific work. The company also offers education and training programmes.
• Rambert Dance Company
  Rambert is Britain's flagship modern dance company, committed to presenting the broadest possible range of modern repertoire, programming established works from choreographers of international status alongside the new and challenging. The company also offers education and training.

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• Skill-Nat Bureau Students with Disabilities
  Promotes opportunities for young people and adults with disabilities to pursue further and higher education.
• Start Workshops
  Innovative and informative art workshops for schools and groups.
• Stagework
  Managed by the National Theatre, Stagework is a unique resource which goes behind the scenes to unpack the complex process of making theatre performance. For teachers it offers curriculum resources based upon key productions.
• Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
  The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust delivers the Government's Specialist Schools and Academies programme. This site is a gateway to information about the Trust, the schools network and the Trust's international arm.
• South Asian Dance
  Information resource for South Asian Dance in the UK.
• Show Me
  Part of the 24 Hour Museum, Show Me is a children's interactive website looking at museums and galleries around the country.
• Shine Week
  Shine is a national festival celebrating all the talents in all young people and is taking place between 6th and 10th July 2009. Embracing the energy and enthusiasm of young people, teachers and youth workers Shine Week creates a real buzz across the country and in the media and is a really exciting way to celebrate the talent that every young person has. Shine Week is about celebrating all talent, it can be in the performing arts but it can also be in technology, science or working in the community.
• Shakespeare Schools Festival
  The Shakespeare Schools Festival is a unique arts education initiative that enables young people to perform abridged productions of Shakespeare's most famous plays in their local professional theatre.
• Schools Music Association
  The Schools Music Association provides a national network for music teachers.
• Samling Foundation
  The Samling Foundation invests in youth and the pursuit of artistic excellence. By providing unique opportunities for young people to learn from and perform alongside great artists, it provides a sanctuary where distinctive talent can be nurtured.
• Slough Music Service is the local authority music service for Slough, funded by government and supported by Slough Borough Council and Beechwood School to offer enhanced musical activities for children and young people in Slough, training for school staff and events for all.

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• The National Association for Gifted Children
  Forum for schools, parents, students and teachers to gain a wider understanding of the needs of gifted children.
• The Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation
  Arts & Kids works with committed arts partners around the UK to give children a chance to get to know and feel at home in their local theatre, orchestra and gallery over the course of a year.
• Take One Picture
  The National Gallery's Take One Picture is a countrywide scheme for primary schools focusing on one painting a year from the Gallery's collection to inspire cross-curricular work in primary classrooms.
• Take It Away
  Take It Away is a musical instrument purchase plan scheme operated by Arts Council England. You can borrow up to £2,000 for the purchase of any musical instrument and pay it back in 10 monthly instalments, interest free.
• Theatre in Prisons and Probation Research and Development Centre (TiPP)
  The Theatre in Prisons and Probation Research and Development Centre (TiPP) develop and implement participatory arts projects and undertake training for artists and for professionals working in the Criminal Justice System.
• www.tamashii.co.uk
  Taiko School runs school workshops / collaboration projects on the traditional art of Japanese Taiko drumming.
  There are still many many schools in the UK who don't know about Taiko and Artsmark seems like a great way for them to learn and experience this exhilerating and dynamic experience.
   

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• Youth Dance England
  Youth Dance England is the national agency to connect young people and dance.
• Youth Music
  Youth Music funds and supports music making and training as well as working to bring together partnership organisations from across the music, education and social sectors.

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• Zone - Music Education Online
  Zonemag is an online music magazine for class teachers and music specialists featuring reviews, features, resources and news.