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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.

Putting our students with SEND at the forefront of collaborative arts projects has had a huge impact on their learning. Thomas Tallis School discuss the impact of their partnership with Tate galleries and the Tate Exchange programme.

A journey to become Artsmark accredited led this PRU to offer more arts-based education, resulting in a broader education for its students. The head at New Regents College, a pupil referral unit in Hackney in east London, explains about the opportunity Artsmark gave them to make positive changes.

In 2017, Strike Lane Primary in Preston embarked on its Artsmark journey and began working with Lancashire Music Hub to enhance cultural opportunities for its pupils.