Some years ago now, my primary school dance club chose Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Mushrooms’ (1962) to perform in a Medway town arts festival at Chatham dockyard. We...
Why teach art?
In recent years, time pressures and focus on core subjects in the primary classroom have meant that art – and other foundation subjects – have b...
To neglect the contribution of the arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of...
Research focus: Possibility thinking and the arts
The arts are often underestimated in the curriculum, despite evidence indicating that they are central to the...
Introduction
The arts can be a powerful vehicle for supporting children experiencing disadvantage, with rich approaches to learning in non-arts subjects and co...
We began teaching our subjects to pass on our knowledge and passion, but with our busy daily working and personal lives we sometimes forget to ‘feed’ the very f...
This article reports on the preliminary findings of a pilot project commissioned by Curious Minds, which linked two performance-based cultural partners (The Hor...
Many schools choose to engage in professional partnerships with artists and arts organisations, whether they be school residencies, individual artists working i...
