QA test Blog April 2025

How we used Artsmark as a springboard to success

Based in the rural village of Linton, just eight miles south of Cambridge, stands Linton Village College (LVC). Established in 1937 by the visionary educator Henry Morris, LVC has kept Morris’s love for the arts alive, making it an essential part of our curriculum.

As part of Anglian Learning, a multi-academy trust (MAT), LVC has a strong emphasis on providing a well-rounded education to all our students, with the arts playing a key role in their development.

LVC’s Artsmark journey has taken our school on a path of innovation and collaboration. Striving to deepen students’ learning beyond the curriculum, our innovative Science and Arts collaboration has sparked new connections between STEM subjects and the creative arts.

We have been fortunate to build a relationship with the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutes, dedicated to understanding important biological processes at the levels of atoms, molecules, cells and organisms. During National Science Week, Dr Denise Walker of LMB delivered a talk to our Year 10 students about her research into the neurobiology of touch and pain and how she uses a small nematode as a model to investigate this. We invited our Year 10 GCSE Dance group to create a piece of choreography about this scientific knowledge.