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As part of our new professional development programme, Artis Impact, I mentored Yr 3, 4, 4/5 and 5 teachers at Harbinger Primary School in Tower Hamlets. Our focus was to develop writing through dance.   The programme kicked off with a dance INSET workshop involving all of the teachers at […]

Using different parts of the body children dance numbers 1 to 9. They then work in pairs on times tables, each dancing a different number and multiplying the two to reach an answer together. This activity is great for number internalization as children actively explore shape and movement possibilities. It […]

Bringing together children from 15 London schools and engineers from Rolls Royce and Imperial College’s Reach out Lab, the Evolution Project takes an innovative approach to delivering the government’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) agenda.   This year’s Evolution Project took place over a number of months, to great […]

You may not expect to find creatives at one of the world’s biggest digital conferences; yet at Digital Shoreditch, the majority of attendees would define themselves as just that.   Set up to celebrate the digital boom in Shoreditch – made famous by the government-backed silicon roundabout at Old Street […]

In recognition of the importance of dedicated Transition programmes, the Department for Education is funding Summer Schools for the second year in a row, dedicating £50 million to providing Transition Summer School opportunities for disadvantaged pupils starting in year 7 this September. For successful transition core skills such as communication, […]

Award winning musician Dame Evelyn Glennie’s relationship with percussion began as a child, when she started exploring the vibrations coming from drums with her percussion teacher: ‘he happened to strike a timpani or a kettle drum and realised that a tremendous amount of vibration was coming from that drum – […]

Children’s access to technology is growing, and fast. More and more children have ready access to computers, the internet and mobile devices, both at home and on the move. Naturally, a result of this recent change is increasingly high levels of computer and technological literacy. Children as young as 4 […]

This is an activity where children have to rely on their imagination to create a character and not preconceived ideas from images in books or films. It reinforces the physical differences between contrasting characters and uses music and numbers as a starting point.   Artis Specialist Iryna Pyzniuk (Snap) demonstrates […]

There is currently a big buzz around Pupil Premium, on how schools need to use it effectively and to evidence the impact it’s having on pupil’s attainment. Introduced by the coalition government to bridge the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers, Pupil Premium is a per pupil fund […]

  Launched this term, Artis Impact was featured in the TES magazine. Making a Song and Dance of the Core Curriculum details this exciting new CPD programme, and why Prince Charles is so committed to seeing it in our primary schools.Artis CEO Rebecca Boyle Suh has continued to blog for the […]