Watershed is delighted to be confirmed as a continuing part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio and looks forward to sustaining Watershed’s leadership and innovation role in the cultural ecosystem. With a focus on collaboration and partnership, Watershed is recognised for its internationally distinctive programme of invention and talent development; as a leading centre for…
Rebecca Boyle Suh, founder of Artis, a social business dedicated to transforming education through the arts, posted a blog to Huffington Post UK exploring the education values in the Republic of Korea, where her company was recently invited. Although Korean students do remarkably well in rankings, it seems that they are looking towards more creative…
In this activity children copy the teacher’s sequence of four actions, tapping different parts of the body and keeping a steady rhythm. To make the activity more challenging the teacher says “switch”, so that children drop out and join back in but one step behind. They will have to use their memory to recall the…
In a useful new teaching resource from Artis, Children create sounds following the small hand gestures of their partners, which are then developed into full body movements. In this example children work with the subject of fireworks (which may be fresh in their memory through New Year’s Eve celebrations), but the principle can be applied…
Last week, the Turner Prize was announced and both the presenter, Jude Law, and winner Elizabeth Price, took the opportunity to raise the issue of proposed changes to the UK secondary school curriculum as outlined by education secretary Michael Gove, which could see arts subjects left out of the timetable for many students. Tate Kids…
Viewers of Hollyoaks will be already be aware of the current storyline focussing on sixth form student Ester who is suffer bullying at the hands of her group of friends. When fellow student Dylan innocently decides to create a bespoke micro-blogging site, ‘DocYou’ to enter a filmmaking competition, the other sixth formers misuse it and…
Replace the word: pulse internalisation and literacy from Artis on Vimeo. Bonfire night is a popular themed event with primary school children, so the team at creative learning company Artis have put together a fun and simple activity for teachers to try in the classroom. In this activity children learn the poem ‘Remember, remember the…
Then you stamp your feet. And before you know it, your sense of rhythm and musicality improves. A clever new exercise from Artis, children click, stamp, slap and clap, each on a different beat of the bar. The activity can be extended by taking the words out and doing just the actions – this will…