Pat Thomson, Professor of Education in the School of Education at The University of Nottingham has published an illuminating new report: “Researching the Arts in Primary Schools”. It reports: Arts-rich schools offer art and music to all children every week and every year. They also offer other expressive arts subjects.…
Ed Sheeran has urged Keir Starmer to fund 1,000 more music teachers and invest £250 million in music education in state schools “to repair decades of dismantling”. The singer songwriter has written to the Prime Minister to say that learning to play an instrument is “now a luxury not…
More than 700 singers, actors and dancers sign a letter calling for the government’s curriculum review to stop the arts becoming a ‘preserve of the wealthy’ Shirley Ballas, Dame Arlene Phillips and the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber are among hundreds of artists calling on the government to reverse cuts to…
Your support has enabled us to extend our work from 20 schools to over 40 this year and has impacted over 5,000 local children. By the end of this term we will be working in fifty schools and will reach over 6,000 children. Thank you! We are very grateful for…
It is “immoral” that working-class children are being denied the same opportunities to become Hollywood starts or musical icons as private school pupils, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The Labour leader said that “we are holding back masses of potential” because of a decline in arts subjects. An analysis by…
Meet Stuart & Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason and their family: seven children between 15 and 28 who have become a fixture in British cultural life. Sheku, a cellist and the third eldest, won the BBC young Musician of the Year award in 2016, performed at Prince Harry’s wedding and starred at the…
In March 2024 professional artists Alison Townley and Cally Bond took pupils in years 1-6 at Hook Norton Primary School into the jungle of clay-manipulation, inspiring the children to create their own animal faces. The artists and materials were supplied free of charge to the school by us, Cotswolds Arts…
In February 2024 pupils at Middle Barton school in Oxfordshire took part in observational drawing classes, using their own bikes they were guided by art teachers (provided by us) learnign how to carefully observe what they saw before them and make marks based on tier observations of form, light and…
Ross Heywood is a young artist currently studying A Levels at Chipping Campden School. His medium of choice is pencils and pens & he is skilled at cartoon drawing as you can see from some of his intricate work. He hopes to pursue a career in Art. Ross has worked…
Sir Antonio Pappano, chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, has called for more funding for music in schools. He said the country would lose its world-class reputation for classical music without more funding to encourage children to get involved. Sir Antonion was the conductor for the coronation and he…
