artsmark – Curious Minds

September 4, 2023

Leading the Arts in your School delegates at a training day. Participants are sat at tables in a light, airy room. They are listening to a trainer facilitator who is speaking.

September 4, 2023

Leading the Arts in Your School 2023-24

Curious Minds will be running this ever popular arts leadership development programme for teachers in the 2023-24 academic year. This year, with the support of Arts Council England, we are delighted to be extending our offer to welcome delegates from across the North of England.

Applications are now open for our highly popular arts leadership development programme Leading the Arts in Your School.

August 3, 2023

Libby is stood in a heritage venue. She is looking directly at the camera.

August 3, 2023

Learning from Lived Experience

How young people with Alternative Saturday Jobs have been teaching cultural organisations and partnerships about access and inclusion in their local area.

April 21, 2023

Pupils from Wistaston Academy perform at Festival Manchester

April 21, 2023

‘Can Do’ Culture

"By opening our own school doors, we opened new avenues into the world outside".

How Wistaston Academy's adventurous outlook has inspired a school community that embraces creative opportunity.

November 11, 2022

November 11, 2022

An Expert’s Artsmark Journey

As part of Artsmark Celebration Week 2022 - and as we reflect on Curious Minds' 10 years of being the Arts Council’s Bridge Organisation for North West England - we spoke to Emma and asked her to share own personal 'Artsmark journey'.

November 9, 2022

A Year of Cultural Activities

The past couple of years have seen unprecedented challenges for the delivery of arts activities in all settings. However, this didn’t stop Bedford High School in Greater Manchester delivering a series of arts workshops and activities with a wide-range of partners, culminating in a mass concert at The Bridgewater Hall.

September 27, 2022

Get Ready for Artsmark Celebration Week

Every year we host Artsmark Celebration Week to shout out about the fantastic achievements of Artsmark settings across the North West and advocate for cultural education across the curriculum.

January 27, 2022

Balderstone ST Leonard’s CE Primary School - Artsmark Blog Image

January 27, 2022

Pupils in the Driving Seat

An Artsmark journey overshadowed by lockdown taught the team at Balderstone St Leonard's a great deal about the value of Pupil Voice. Celebrating their new 'Gold' status, Kate Turner explains why there's definitely no going back now!

November 10, 2021

My #Artsmark20 story: Bedford High

Bedford High, in Leigh, has used Artsmark to transform practise within the school and has influenced the work of other settings through their seven-year Artsmark journey.

May 5, 2021

Craft Adventures

... with Balderstone St. Leonard's! Curious Minds is delighted to share an update from one of our Artsmark schools about how they've managed to stay creative and inspire each other through the arts during the pandemic.

March 10, 2021

March 10, 2021

Surging Forward in Sefton

At a time of austerity and constriction, Sefton’s Local Cultural Education Partnership (LCEP) is determined to maintain a high profile for its provision for the arts and creativity across its educational and community providers. Despite the new and additional challenges created by the pandemic, lockdown and school closures, their plans remain hopeful, challenging and ambitious.

February 24, 2021

Nurturing Creative Partnerships in Lockdown

Every challenge offers opportunity to grow. Head of Drama at Stockport Grammar School, Matt King-Sayce, seized this at the start of Lockdown#1 and has been working hard to develop new and existing cultural partnerships for his school through the last few months. Here he reflects on the positives inherent in pursuing partnerships.

November 13, 2020

Hope and wellbeing in Lockdown

Emma Robertson of Ullswater Community College (UCC) shares their celebration of human rights and creativity; everything from climbing the highest heights to personal messages of hope.

July 17, 2020

Children in an art classroom using materials.

July 17, 2020

Artsmark: Latest Schools Announced

Curious Minds is delighted to congratulate the very latest group of North West schools to achieve Artsmark status.