Cultural Education Award Winners
The Hollins School
Winners of the Innovation & Leadership in Education Award 2024
The Hollins School uses its award-winning 'Cohesion through Creativity' programme to foster unity, confidence, and cultural understanding in students by providing high-quality arts education.
Through this pupil and community centred platform, high quality and exciting creative opportunities are accessible to all young people – allowing them to not only witness and feel the transformative impact of arts and culture, but to also become artistic contributors on their own terms.
School leaders recognise that young people from particular backgrounds - for example, black, South Asian and refugee - are underserved when it comes to arts and culture provision.The Hollins' pioneering programme challenges this by focusing directly on the needs and interests of the young people themselves, with tailored initiatives that ‘empower, inspire and transform’.
The school works in partnership with artists and art organisations to develop innovative creative projects. Pupils are able to co-produce empowering content, discover amazing artistic disciplines and use creativity to express their feelings and emotions.
"Children generally are about a year behind... in behaviour and listening skills and personal social and emotional development. This makes their learning and development more difficult."
Doncaster-based Early Years Practitioner
What this looks like in practice
Project resources
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COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS - well-established long-term relationships with artists and arts organisations across the UK.
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SPECIALIST LEADERSHIP IN CULTURAL EDUCATION - a designated member of staff who is responsible for the successful delivery of creative projects, and an internal budget allocated every year.
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YOUTH-LED ARTISTIC PRODUCERS - pupils are extensively involved in planning, gaining valuable experience, as well as supporting and inspiring their peers.
Project reach
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222 sessions delivered
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10 local venues
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3,200 session attendances
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Doncaster-based Early Years Practitioner
