April 6, 2023
Do you teach at a secondary school in Rochdale or Wigan? Are you interested in Artsmark Award and it's potential for wellbeing? We still have places available for schools to sign up for our #BeeWell and Artsmark pilot project.
February 24, 2023
If you want to know how we can best develop the next generation of creative workforce, ask Holly Ball.
February 21, 2023
We’re delighted to see our Cultural Citizens programme included amongst 24 case studies highlighting the value of the arts in schools, published to mark the 40th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) Arts in Schools report.
February 2, 2023
Curious Minds is proud to be working with the University of Manchester, the Anna Freud Centre for Children & Families, and Greater Manchester Combined Authority to help make the young people’s wellbeing everyone’s business.
December 2, 2022
The 'from HEAD to TOE' project, funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, aims to explore the role of the creating, moving body as a means to increase concentration, engagement and recall in English and Math, as well as produce memorable experiences.
July 7, 2022
Over the past nine years, Curious Minds has been bringing early years specialists together; developing initiatives to support early years providers, engaging families and offering joyful, enriching experiences to young children.
April 27, 2022
Rosannah Jones, Engagement Coordinator at Manchester International Festival (MIF) stresses to us the importance of co-creation.
January 27, 2022
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
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
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.
April 28, 2021
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.
March 17, 2021
October 16, 2020
Curious Minds is delighted to announce the shortlisted finalists of the North West Cultural Education Awards 2020. This year we will be celebrating the individuals and teams in our region’s schools, arts and cultural sectors who have gone above and beyond to bring creative and cultural learning to life for children and young people through the period of national lockdown.