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One of Portsmouth’s youngest school governors, aged just 21, talks about why he became a school governor and the important role arts and culture play in children’s education.

If schools put arts at the heart of their curriculum, they don't need to be near towns and cities to offer amazing cultural enrichment, writes the head of an Artsmark Silver Award school.

How one secondary school has embraced arts education as a way to give young people a rounded education and enhance learning – and gained an Artsmark Award in the process.

Promoting the arts in school benefits the whole curriculum – pupils grow in confidence and perform better across the board, writes the principal of an Artsmark Platinum Award school.

Find out how Artsmark is enabling Gomersal Primary School to embrace the arts as a means of helping pupils to express themselves and interact more closely with their peers.

One director of STEAM explains how the introduction of a STEAM-based curriculum has built creative and connected learning experiences.

What do the Mercedes Young Apprentice of the Year 2018, a trainee secondary school drama teacher, an Oxbridge student of mechanical engineering on her industry placement year abroad and the Royal Opera House’s latest technical theatre apprentice have in common? Each of these inspiring young women is making use of the skills and knowledge gained from embracing a variety of high-quality arts learning – both inside and outside the classroom – during their years of study at Ricards Lodge High School.

Art shouldn’t just be confined to art lessons: integrating it across the curriculum can have huge benefits for both past and present students. At Canewdon Primary School in Rochford, they believe that every child should engage in meaningful and motivating art experiences.

Putting creativity at the heart of a school is challenging - here one trust explains how it successfully embedded the arts across their 34 primary and secondary schools.

Two schools explain why Artsmark is not an end in itself, but a long-term commitment, a spur to further action and just the start of their arts journey.