Artswork Audio

At Artswork we have been busy refreshing our Artsmark support offer.

After listening to your feedback, we understand that time is valuable and the need for flexibility is crucial. We have now adapted our live support sessions and turned them into shorter bitesize videos and podcasts. Don’t panic, we still plan to offer live sessions.

In the final of 3 podcasts, listen to Artsmark trainer, Sonia Hyams, and Director of In-Focus education & Development, Xavier Fiddes talk about the best ways to make sure you're getting the right evidence out of your Artsmark project.

At Artswork we have been busy refreshing our Artsmark support offer.

After listening to your feedback, we understand that time is valuable and the need for flexibility is crucial. We have now adapted our live support sessions and turned them into shorter bitesize videos and podcasts. Don’t panic, we still plan to offer live sessions.

In the second of 3 podcasts, listen to Artsmark and Arts Award trainer, Louisa Clark, and Director of In-Focus education & Development, Xavier Fiddes, discuss the best ways to plan activities that are related to a setting's Artsmark Award, using a theory of change model.

At Artswork we have been busy refreshing our Artsmark support offer.

After listening to your feedback, we understand that time is valuable and the need for flexibility is crucial. We have now adapted our live support sessions and turned them into shorter bitesize videos and podcasts. Don’t panic, we still plan to offer live sessions.

In the first of 3 podcasts, listen to Artsmark trainer, Sonia Hyams, and Director of In-Focus education & Development, Xavier Fiddes, discuss ideas on how best to get back on track with an Artsmark journey, and exploring barriers to moving forward.

In this special episode of Artswork Audio, we interviewed four of our Artsmark Trainers, Fiona, John, Julie and Sonia, asking them

- What are you inspired by from Artsmark?

- What's your favourite thing about Artsmark?

- How did you become an Artsmark Trainer?

- Why would you recommend Artsmark to schools?

Sam Martin, Assistant Headteacher at Kennet School, Thatcham, tells us about their approach to delivering extra-curricular activities.

Kennet School is Artswork's Artsmark Creativity Champion lead school for one of the Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes groups.

Sam shares tips for supporting full-time and part-time staff's wellbeing, while making time for extra-curricular activities, developing buy-in and balancing the workloads that everyday school life brings, and different ways to format extra-curricular activities to mould them around the staff and pupils time, such as workshops, small-scale projects and using external facilitators.

Eleanor Markland, Artsworks Education Development Manager for Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes, is joined by Jonathan Harris, Head of Academy Music at The Premier Academy, Bletchley. Jonathan is also one of Artswork’s Artsmark Creativity Champions.

In this episode, Jonathan details how sustainability can be brought into arts and cultural education. He shares how his school has connected with other schools across the globe enabling both sets of pupils to learn about different cultures.

Jonathan also shares many resources that teachers can use to broaden their understanding of sustainability and how they can get their school involved.

Welcome to Artswork Audio, Artswork's brand new podcast. This short trailer explains what and why we're starting a podcast.

Our first series, Arts in Schools, launches on October 5th.

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