Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Little Angel Theatre plans to explore and test an arts/puppetry based approach to helping schools deliver their strategic aims. Artist practitioners will work collaboratively with teachers in four Islington schools, using puppetry, visual arts, drama and performance to bring whole-school improvement goals alive for pupils and families.

Attenborough Arts Centre will develop its SENsory Atelier approach, which involves child-led multi-sensory practice and Reggio Emilia principles, in nine SEND schools in Leicester. This four-year project will support arts practitioners to work collaboratively with teaching staff. Pupils aged 4-19 will learn through several different art forms, working with artists both in school and at the Centre.

This project will explore the impact of delivering an intensive version of the National Gallery’s flagship primary education programme, Take One Picture, to eleven schools in the Northampton Primary Academy Trust. The project has a strong focus on evaluation, and will trial different approaches to extending learning across the curriculum and deepening learning throughout the two years.

A New Direction is London’s leader in cultural education; connecting children, young people and education with the best of arts and culture. My Creative School offers a new model for relationships between arts organisations and schools. Facilitated and supported by A New Direction and Arts Council Bridge Organisation, this project will see schools choose to work with arts organisations based on how those organisations respond to priority areas identified in School Improvement Plans (SIPs). The focus of activity will be using the arts to teach non-arts subjects in primary schools across three outer London boroughs and various locations within Kent.

Access Technology Scotland aims to widen access to high quality digital skills education, training and facilities, particularly amongst groups experiencing disadvantage. In this project, they will work with three primary schools in North Ayrshire to deliver a music with technology project and evaluate the effectiveness of their approach.

Act On It is a social enterprise using drama to raise achievement amongst groups experiencing disadvantage. This grant will support a programme that aims in particular to improve social communication skills with four primary schools in Essex through drama and to embed the arts in the curriculum.

Akademi wants to deliver a programme in two schools for children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), exploring how dance can be more successfully delivered for ASC pupils and how the movement vocabulary of South Asian Dance, such as hand gestures and facial expressions, might particularly support pupils’ communication and physical needs.

Amber Film & Photography Collective (Amber) was founded in 1969 with the aim of documenting North East England’s working class communities. Working with 12 primary schools in the North East, Amber will develop a programme of creative engagement in documentary photography and filmmaking. The project aims to increase children’s (and teachers’) digital media/ technology and creative skills, relevant to humanities and STEM areas of the curriculum; to enable pupils to explore digital storytelling; to address intergenerational relationships and community cohesion; and to provide continuing professional development for teachers.

An Lanntair will work with seventeen schools on Harris and Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland to explore and test two strands of activity: a teacher professional learning scheme to develop teachers’ practice, enhancing sustainability for schools, particularly in the context of the geographical/infrastructural challenges of the Western Isles; and a series of longer-term arts-based learning programmes, delivered by An Lanntair artist practitioners in schools and developed in consultation with teachers.

Artsplay Highland will test the impact of music and arts-based approaches to improving attainment in literacy (in English and Gaelic) for children in Primary One classes, in areas experiencing economic disadvantage in the Highlands.