Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Attenborough Arts Centre will develop its SENsory Atelier approach, which involves child-led multi-sensory practice and Reggio Emilia principles, in nine SEND schools in Leicester. This four-year project will support arts practitioners to work collaboratively with teaching staff. Pupils aged 4-19 will learn through several different art forms, working with artists both in school and at the Centre.

This project will explore the impact of delivering an intensive version of the National Gallery’s flagship primary education programme, Take One Picture, to eleven schools in the Northampton Primary Academy Trust. The project has a strong focus on evaluation, and will trial different approaches to extending learning across the curriculum and deepening learning throughout the two years.

21Common is a dance collective producing performance and community collaborations nationally and internationally. This grant will enable them to work collaboratively with children and teaching staff in four Glasgow schools, enabling pupils to engage in performance arts and develop social and personal skills and a sense of agency over their own learning.

A New Direction is London’s leader in cultural education; connecting children, young people and education with the best of arts and culture. My Creative School offers a new model for relationships between arts organisations and schools. Facilitated and supported by A New Direction and Arts Council Bridge Organisation, this project will see schools choose to work with arts organisations based on how those organisations respond to priority areas identified in School Improvement Plans (SIPs). The focus of activity will be using the arts to teach non-arts subjects in primary schools across three outer London boroughs and various locations within Kent.

Access Technology Scotland aims to widen access to high quality digital skills education, training and facilities, particularly amongst groups experiencing disadvantage. In this project, they will work with three primary schools in North Ayrshire to deliver a music with technology project and evaluate the effectiveness of their approach.

Act On It is a social enterprise using drama to raise achievement with groups experiencing disadvantage. This grant supports Act On It to work with students in Pupil Referral Units and schools for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health difficulties in East Sussex and Buckinghamshire. They will re-engage young people in learning through drama and improve their oracy, communication skills and confidence. They will also support teachers to develop and sustain drama-based practice in non-mainstream educational settings.

Act On It is a social enterprise using drama to raise achievement amongst groups experiencing disadvantage. This grant will support a programme that aims in particular to improve social communication skills with four primary schools in Essex through drama and to embed the arts in the curriculum.

Affinity believes that every care experienced young person deserves equality of opportunity and are committed to providing £1000 worth of world-class cultural and leadership opportunities for every care experienced young person in Rotherham by 2030. This grant supports Affinity to train and support a cohort of teachers in and around Rotherham to develop literacy pedagogy through visual literacy and sequential art, specifically to support the learning of care-experienced children and young people.

Akademi is a South Asian-led dance organisation, connecting communities with South Asian dance forms in formal and informal learning settings. This grant supports the delivery of Reach Out and Reveal, a programme with SEND schools using South Asian dance forms to support the learning and development of pupils with profound Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Akademi will embed inclusive and responsive practice through ‘artists in residence’ for whole-school and cross-curricular impact, and will support school staff to embed some of the approaches in their teaching.

Akademi wants to deliver a programme in two schools for children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), exploring how dance can be more successfully delivered for ASC pupils and how the movement vocabulary of South Asian Dance, such as hand gestures and facial expressions, might particularly support pupils’ communication and physical needs.