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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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  • Literacy

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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Say it with dance

Some simple ideas to try with your children using movement to strengthen language development.

  • Ages 4-5, 5-7
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Top Tips for Creative Oracy for KS1

Oracy is a vital skill for children to develop, and it can be fun and engaging to teach! Take a look at these top tips.

  • Ages 5-7
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Open book with its pages folded inward to form a heart shape, casting a shadow on the text.

Bringing books to life through drama

A book can give us the opportunity to visit places we may never be able to go, to learn about people we may never meet & to have adventures.

  • Ages All
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A large yellow sunflower with bees on it against a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds.

Once upon ATOM

Find out how storytelling and science go hand in hand and that creativity is the catalyst not just for Shakepearians but for scientists too.

  • Ages All
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Open book showing the title "The Tragedie of Macbeth" with reflections of stained glass windows in the background.

Awesome oracy

Talk helps build not only language and communication, but self-esteem and collaborative skills.

  • Ages 7-9, 9-11
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A stack of colorful children's books with a cartoon-themed coffee cup on top, placed on a wooden surface.

Fresh approaches to popular texts: Handa’s Surprise by Eileene Browne

Discover ways of bringing books to life and exploring the world outside the text, using the performing arts.

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9
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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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Resource 3: Cause and effect…investigating past influences

This piece looks, from a distance, like a powerful tornado. Look closely and you can see it is made of thousands of tiny figures swirling.

  • Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
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