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Voices Together, Inspiring Stories: Drama for Language and BelongingEquals Trust (on behalf of Orston Primary School)
Building on schools’ existing work on storytelling and anti-racism, artists from Nottingham Playhouse will work with teachers to explore how drama can unlock language and empower more marginalised pupil voices.
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Connecting Classrooms: Strengthening Arts Based Teaching of History in BirminghamSampad
Sampad is working with nine schools across Birmingham using dance and drama approaches to bring the history curriculum to life in their individual settings. Artists will support teachers to explore less visible histories and create space for pupils to explore not only significant historical figures, but also the stories of individuals who are often overlooked. Partners aim to build a whole-school culture centred on child-focused, arts-led learning.
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Sing for Wellbeing SchoolsLove Music
Love Music is working with eight Edinburgh primary schools, supporting teachers to build confidence and understanding of how they can use singing and body percussion in their curriculum, classroom practice and routines, to promote inclusion, wellbeing, community and tackle inequities.
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Opening Horizons
Herefordshire Museums & Galleries
Herefordshire Museums and Galleries will work with a network of small, rural schools around Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire to embed arts-based approaches that explore identity, belonging and cultural understanding.
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For All Our Children: Dramatic Enquiry and the Climate Emergency
Development Education Centre South Yorkshire
This programme uses drama and Philosophy for Children (P4C) to engage participants in Climate Change Education. It builds teacher confidence through a progressive toolkit featuring techniques like Mantle of the Expert, Theatre of the Oppressed and Creative Outdoor Learning. By blending practitioner expertise with teacher experience, the programme explores the complex environmental, political and social dimensions of the climate emergency.
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Performing Arts to Inspire Pupils with Oracy, Literacy and Wellbeing
Brave Words CIC
This project will equip teachers to use drama and performance poetry to strengthen oracy, verbal literacy, writing and wellbeing across the curriculum. Teachers will develop practical strategies to support learning, including devising theatre, performance poetry, imaginative play, creative performance and theatre-based approaches that develop oracy skills, building brave spaces where pupils can develop resilience and be their authentic selves.
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Empowering Teachers through Visual Arts to Explore Nutrition
Northern Star Academies Trust, on behalf of Victoria Primary School
This project will provide professional development for teachers to use visual arts as a powerful tool to improve children’s learning around food, diet and nutrition. By collaborating with local artists via Keighley Creative, the project aims to increase teacher skills and confidence in using visual arts across the curriculum and in particular to explore food and nutrition with their pupils.
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Developing Executive Function Through Process Drama
Hull Collaborative Academy Trust
Working with Hull Truck Theatre, Reception and Year 1 teachers in eight Hull primary schools will explore how Process Drama can support the development of executive function, with a particular focus on inhibitory control and self-regulation.