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.

Curious Minds and the Whitworth would like to invite senior leaders from the education and cultural sectors to an informative symposium on how arts and culture can be harnessed to creatively deliver the British Values agenda across the curriculum.

At this event, school leaders and creative practitioners will share learning and current practice. The event will also launch a new Curious Minds publication, ‘British Values: Beyond Box Ticking’, which pulls together research case studies from their flagship SLiCE (Specialist Leaders in Cultural Education) fellowship programme.

Participants will hear from SLiCE fellows and North West cultural organisations and get a sense of how this work has impacted in schools, local communities and with Ofsted. Explore how this work has helped schools and young people to shape creative responses that unpick and humanise what we really mean by British Values and how we can promote them.

Delegates will also get a chance to preview the opening of a gallery intervention by pupils from Fred Longworth High School. Year 10 students have made a series of new artworks that will be on display until August. Using the Hogarth ‘Prints of Darkness‘ exhibition at the Whitworth, and the work of internet collage sensation Christopher Spencer (AKA Cold War Steve), the students were invited to voice their opinions about living in Britain in 2019.

The young people will be in the gallery on the day to share their passions, politics, and commentate on the place that they live and the things that matter to them.

North West Artsmark schools are warmly invited to join Curious Minds online in the next instalment of our online support surgeries.

This session will focus on how schools can write an effective Case Study. The session will be a vibrant combination of guest speakers, updates, a refresher of key dates and processes, as well as Q and A; all designed to support you on your Artsmark journey.

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Creative industries employ more people than financial services or construction services in the UK. On top of this, experts tell us that the jobs most likely to be protected from automation in the future are those which require human creativity. Arts Award offers unique opportunities for young people to develop their arts practice, leadership skills and improve work-readiness.

At this event, you will have the opportunity to learn about a variety of ways in which Silver and Gold Arts Award is being delivered across a range of settings and how young people are building their artistic and leadership skills ready for whatever the future holds for them.

Speakers drawn from the education and cultural sector will share their experiences of delivering the qualification and young people will share how their Gold Arts Award has helped them gain the skills needed for employment. You will also have the chance to contribute your own ideas through interactive workshops and a panel debate.

Tickets to this event are being offered at a heavily subsidised rate of £10. Places are limited, so early registration is recommended.

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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North West Artsmark schools are warmly invited to join Curious Minds online in the next instalment of our online support surgeries.

This session will focus on how the Arts Award Programme can enrich a school’s Artsmark journey:

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The session will be a vibrant combination of guest speakers, updates, a refresher of key dates and processes, as well as Q and A; all designed to support you on your Artsmark journey.

Book here.