Arts Award inspires young people to grow their arts and leadership talents: it’s creative, valuable and accessible. Arts Award can be achieved at five levels, four accredited qualifications and an introductory award.

This course is for adults who want to become Arts Award advisers at Bronze & Silver level, supporting children and young people while they are working towards their award.

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Every child deserves to experience the arts and Artsmark Award recognises the great art and cultural opportunities your school offers to children and young people and help you embed the arts into strategic planning.

Schools that register for Artsmark should attend a CPD Development Day, exploring the wider purpose of Artsmark and process of achieving the award. Each school should send two teachers, including a member of the SLT or the head teacher. By the end of the day you will have a much clearer idea of how Artsmark works and have made a strong start in writing your Statement of Commitment.

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PLEASE NOTE: This event is only open to schools that have already registered for Artsmark. If your school is yet to register please first do so at this link: www.artsmark.org.uk/registration.

Artsmark schools from small and rural settings from across the North West are invited to attend an Artsmark Peer to Peer Network meeting.

There will be discussion during the session around some of the barriers and challenges that small and rural settings face and ideas of how these can be overcome through the Artsmark journey.

You will hear from existing Artsmark Gold schools from the small and rural community, where you will find out more about their achievements and the impact that the Artsmark has had on their setting.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask their questions and raise any personal challenges they face as a setting within this supportive peer to peer network.

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Schools from PRU settings in the North West region are invited to attend a digital Artsmark Peer to Peer Network meeting from the comfort of your school.

This second session will focus around challenges, ideas and top tips for funding arts and cultural projects in your PRU.

You will hear from other PRU’s and you will also have the opportunity to ask questions and raise any personal challenges you face as a setting within this supportive peer to peer network.

Although the network will be themed around the Artsmark journey, non Artsmark PRU’s from the North West are also welcome to attend this meeting.

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An exploration of the role cultural and creative education can play in helping to support child refugees within communities.

About this Event

An opportunity to hear some of the insights from ArtReach’s research work with Curious Minds about how creative and cultural education can support child refugees as they settle in new communities, through taking part in creative activities. You will be able to hear about the experiences of young people who have arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors and find out more about the challenges they face.

This is an opportunity for those working in the cultural and educational sector to share their thoughts around best practice around providing a creative welcome.

Schools across the North West are invited to attend a celebratory festival, hosted by the region’s Bridge organisation: Curious Minds.

This event recognises the achievements made by schools committed to the delivery of high quality arts and culture for children and young people. The day will include:

• Keynote: Sam Cairns – Cultural Learning Alliance – Cultural Capital
• A celebration of schools who have achieved their Artsmark level since september 2018 with Jessica Farmer, Arts Council England Senior Relationship Manager, CYP in the North
• A ‘Cultural Marketplace’ with a broad range of arts and cultural organisations who will be on hand to discuss your school’s arts and cultural needs and how they can support you
• Opportunities to network, make new connections and form relationships.

Artsmark case studies 

• Primary – David Wearing – Principal Kelsal Primary & Rachael Borman ,Teacher and Director AmaSing
• Secondary –  Steve Cook – Formby High School – Artsmark Platinum School
• SEND Sheena Edwards – Peterhouse Schools & Arts Co-ordinator Autism Initiatives – Using the arts to promote life skills & support communication and behaviour in SEN
• Artsmark Partners sharing how they have developed partnerships with schools

Creative education workshops

• Funding the arts in your school  – Steph Hawke, Curious Minds Senior Manager External Funding and Policy
• Ofsted Key Messages – Practical ideas for unpicking your current curriculum – Andy Mellor – headteacher at St Nicholas C of E Primary School Blackpool , National Leader of Education. National President, 2018-2019 of National Association of Headteachers, Blackpool Teaching School Alliance  National President of the National Association of Headteachers 2019,
• African drumming music and singing – Steve Cook – and the Mundo Afrika Choir
• Developing Creativity in your Arts Award Projects – Formby High ‘Creative Ambassador’ Students  & Vicci Harrocks – Community Arts Coordinator
• into Film – Discover how to use film in the classroom to enhance your pupils’ literacy, speaking and listening skills – www.intofilm.ort
• Creative Habits of Mind – Robert Meadows – Philip Barker Trust & Betty Richie the Bluecoat

Delegates will be able to chose from two sessions as well as a scheduled time slot in the Marketplace (choosing sessions will take place when the programme is fully confirmed)

Refreshments and lunch will be served on the day.  This event is heavily subsidised by Arts Council England  Bridge Funding.

The festival will be taking place in Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, with guests having the opportunity to explore all that this wonderful cultural venue has to offer until 5pm.  For further information about the venue, please see below:

http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/visit/