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Our resources aim to inspire and provide top tips for creative lessons. They are designed to offer a huge variety of ideas and activities to try in the classroom, from top tips on teaching mental health and wellbeing through the arts to how to bring maths and science lessons to life.

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Ten top tips for teaching literacy through the performing arts

Using a variety of approaches you might find you give children who struggle with reading and writing a chance to shine in literacy lessons.

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
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Using the performing arts for behaviour management

This teaching resource aims to provide some practical suggestions on how the performing arts can help keep children engaged and motivated.

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
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Supporting SEND through creativity

Top tips for teachers to support SEND children creativity with some ideas for activities to try in your schools.

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
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A row of paintbrushes with various colored bristles rests on a wooden surface smeared with colorful paint strokes.

Bringing art to life through movement & dance

This resource is filled with ideas to help bring art to life through movement and the performing arts.

  • Ages 5-7
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A colorful wooden xylophone with eight metal bars in different colors and a wooden mallet resting on it.

Adventures in the instrument cupboard

The instrument cupboard! That often neglected territory where no teacher dares to tread.

  • Ages All
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Resource 10: Some/One…exploring identity

Some/One is made of thousands of metal ‘dog tags’ – identity tags worn by soldiers around the world. They are joined together to make a robe

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
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Resource 9: Public figures…exploring support

This plinth looks familiar enough. Do Ho has placed hundreds of tiny figures underneath instead of a famous, heroic figure.

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
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Resource 7: Home within home…examining moving

In this piece Do Ho has recreated two important homes: his home in South Korea and the first place that he lived when he moved to the USA.

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
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Resource 5: Net-work…exploring connections

This piece is created from lots of tiny figures fixed onto a fishing net. Net-Work resembles a fishing net.

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
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