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Booking for Primary Arts is now open!

The entire Primary Arts Programme is offered FREE of charge to all state primary mainstream and SEND settings in London

Watch our brand new animation on Teaching for Creativity

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Stream 25 podcasts from our Skills for Life class of 2024

Now streaming 10min podcasts made by the participants of Skills for Life: Podcasting 2024

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The Arts in Schools: Foundations for the Future

New ‘Arts in Schools’ report calls for creative subjects to be central to a rethink of England’s state education system

Explore the Radical Self Care Journal

The beginning of a revolutionary discourse with the self. A guided conversation in which you are subtly encouraged to pay closer attention to your unique self and its needs.

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The Arts in Schools: Foundations for the Future

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Primary Arts

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Watch our Teaching for Creativity Animation

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Inclusive Progression Routes

A toolkit of ideas, insights and provocations to improve inclusive progression routes into the arts for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent young people

LookUp - start your school's search for opportunities

LookUp helps London schools to navigate, search for and engage with arts & cultural organisations and opportunities.

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