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  1. Blog category
    •  Artsmark Partner
    •  arts partnerships

    5 reasons why you need an Artsmark Partner in your life

    17 April 2019

    Since the Artsmark Partnership Programme launched last year, more than 650 arts and cultural organisations have signed up, offering a whole range of brilliant cultural opportunities for both young people and their teachers.

    Young actors at Hillstone Primary performing Hercules and Phoebe
  2. Blog category
    •  Artsmark Partner

    Creativity is in all of us

    8 October 2018

    Artsmark Partner, People Express, is a small professional participatory arts organisation based in Swadlincote, Derbyshire.

    Bollywood Dance workshop with Nupar Arts at Pennine Way Junior Academy
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.

  6. Blog category
    •  cross-curricular
    •  primary school
    •  Artsmark Gold

    Artsmark and Poetry

    11 October 2017

    This National Poetry Day, Art Coordinator Sharon Palfreyman from Corrie Primary School, talks to us about how two inspiring arts and poetry projects helped them achieve Artsmark Gold

    Children playing outside
  7. Blog category
    •  Artsmark Partner

    The teaching of art and culture in school was a life line

    21 June 2017

    I design and draw things for books. Whether it’s designing a book cover published by Penguin or writing and drawing my own books, creativity is a large part of my life.