Day after day I watch children and young people looking at their phones, oblivious to traffic or birdsong, not talking to friends and family, isolated from the real world to be part of an internet world. I therefore make no apology for coming back to what I consider one of…
Dear Friends, Whilst you are all enjoying the summer (even if we are all in desperate need of some rain!), we wanted to take a moment to say thank you. Thank you to every headteacher who welcomed us through your doors last academic year. Thank you to every teacher and teaching…
Clap, clap (on left) clap, clap (right) Stamp stamp Bang my tum like a drum Wiggle my bum. It isn’t exactly high opera and I’m not sure if Wagner or Verdi would have approved, though I think Mozart would have been delighted! This song, and dance, was the introduction to…
Since we started Cotswolds Arts Through Schools, arguing for the arts in primary schools has meant making the case from scratch, school by school, funder by funder. That has been true in schools, to trusts and philanthropists, and, when we get the chance, to politicians. Is that about to change? In…
I was listening to the Gospel in church this week. Two of the stories Jesus told — about the impact of a little yeast on a bowl of flour, and the ability of a mustard seed to grow into a tree (I have always struggled with that one, since mustard…