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March 10, 2022

A teacher and student discuss creative practice

March 10, 2022

Commission: City as Arts School Project

Curious Minds is looking to commission an experienced and enthusiastic Cultural Educator to work on its City as Arts School project in Manchester.

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!

January 18, 2022

A key stage 3 school pupil on a cultural visit with both thumbs up, surrounded by other children.

January 18, 2022

UNlocking Experiences

Throughout 2021 and into 2022, Curious Minds has been working with United Learning Trust (ULT) to support students and staff in their Academy schools as they began the process of reconnection post-lockdown.

December 16, 2021

Greater Manchester’s Poetic Declaration of Human Rights

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.

October 8, 2021

Creativity Collaboratives in the North West

Curious Minds is delighted to congratulate St Bernard's RC Primary School in Ellesmere Port and Holy Family Catholic Multi Academy Trust, which has been chosen to lead one of only eight Creativity Collaboratives across the country.

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.

April 28, 2021

Proof Positive

Art and creativity implicitly strengthen the character of young people. All practitioners working in the cultural education sector know this. In Summer 2020, Curious Minds partnered with Goldsmiths, University of London for an ambitious research program that seeks to help researchers and practitioners back this up with empirical data.

April 27, 2021

Summer Schools: A blast from the past

Imagine if... we had the courage to look beyond ‘catch-up’ and saw the potential of summer learning to re-engage young people with learning, with each other, with their communities and with future careers.

April 16, 2021

Bubble Up – Your Summer School Sorted

Curious Minds is excited to offer its tried and tested Bubble Up programme to schools this summer. Bubble Up is a solution for schools that are interested in delivering high-quality creative summer school activity for incoming Year 7s, in line with DfE guidance.

March 17, 2021

Rethinking Recovery

How a summer of reconnection could meet and exceed recovery learning objectives.

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.

March 2, 2021

Young Bubble Up participants in Claremont make a camera obscura during summer 2020

March 2, 2021

Recovery Learning: Pass the Baton

An open letter to Gavin Williamson. This summer it’s time to pass the education recovery baton to the nation’s expert army of creative educators, to give our children a summer of creative fun, friendship and freedom wherever they live.