What happens when writers and teachers work together in the writing classroom? And what happens when teachers are given opportunities to be writers through work...
Can more arts and creativity in primary schools improve children’s writing? Our research to address this question began at a time when primary schools were faci...
High-quality arts provision has the potential to build self-belief and confidence in young people (Royal Shakespeare Company, Tate and University of Nottingham,...
Schools are important in helping children to successfully engage with culture and cultural institutions, and the Henley Review of Cultural Education in English ...
This article reports on the preliminary findings of a pilot project commissioned by Curious Minds, which linked two performance-based cultural partners (The Hor...
We’ve recently finished analysing 6,000 responses from 14–18-year-old students. As part of a three-year research project, we asked students – through focus grou...
Many schools choose to engage in professional partnerships with artists and arts organisations, whether they be school residencies, individual artists working i...
At a time of increased focus on core subjects and shrinking school budgets (Cultural Learning Alliance, 2018), how can we make the case for taking children to m...
The government’s Green Paper ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provisions’ (Department of Health and Department of Education, 2017) sets o...