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- secondary school
- wellbeing
- Artsmark Gold
How we use arts and creativity to boost student and staff wellbeing
5 November 2020In our second Artsmark in action blog we hear from Alexis Pelling, Artsmark Lead at Cheam High School, a secondary school in Cheam, Surrey.
Between 2017 and 2018 Knife Crime in England and Wales rose to record levels with the number of fatal stabbings the highest since Home Office reports began in 1946.
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- Artsmark Platinum
- secondary school
Be the best you can be with Artsmark
4 October 2018The Artsmark Award has been a part of Havelock Academy for over ten years now, holding a Gold award under the previous framework, and in 2017 we gained our Platinum Award in the new, refreshed framework.
- Blog category
- cross-curricular
- Artsmark Platinum
- secondary school
School should be more than merely passing exams
2 March 2018Peter Robinson from Our Lady's Catholic High School talked to The Guardian about how achieving an Artsmark Platinum Award can change the life of a school.
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- dance
- cross-curricular
- primary school
Activating Dance in Primary School
31 January 2018Claire 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.
- Blog category
- creative careers
- pupil voice
- secondary school
Nurturing Young People’s Talent
10 October 2017Rosie Gill, a Year 9 student at Ballard School, is one of the youngest people to achieve Distinction as an associate of the Royal School of Music and Trinity Music College.