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These downloadable resources offer inspiration and 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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Bringing art to life through movement & dance

An artist uses a range of different brushstrokes – sometimes dark, strong, heavy lines or perhaps light, free and indirect curves. All of these qualities can be transferred to movement/ dance. Rudolf Laban, esteemed dance & movement theoretician, categorised movement into four component parts: Space, weight, speed and flow.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Healthy Body, Music

Adventures in the music cupboard

The instrument cupboard! That often neglected territory where no teacher dares to tread. But fear not, brave traveller, for the instrument cupboard is a treasure trove, bursting with creative potential waiting to be unleashed. With some grounding principles and a few activities, this blog will encourage you to prise the door open, release the instruments and let them achieve their destiny!

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Music, Wellbeing

Be maths smART

Be Maths SmART is a blog designed to provide inspiration & ideas for teaching maths through the performing arts. Artis strongly champions maths being brought to life in a fun and stimulating way through dance, drama and music and aims to shares some ideas through this blog.

Key stage KS2

Topic Communication, Drama, Maths

Creative ways to teach poetry

This National Poetry Day, we are celebrating by giving you some creative ideas and approaches for teaching poetry through music, drama and movement. So whether it’s Michael Rosen, Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy or Dr Seuss – these ideas can be adapted to suit them all.

Key stage KS1, KS2, EYFS

Topic Drama, Poetry

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

This resource focuses on Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Brown and reveals some ways of bringing the book to life and exploring the world outside the text, using the performing arts. Many of the techniques described in this reaching resource could be easily adapted to explore any texts you are discovering with your classes.

Key stage KS1, Foundation

Topic Literature

Once upon ATOM

Discovering the story behind the science, be that how something was discovered or dramatising the effects of an experiment, can engage children with science who might not be natural chemists, or provide a familiar structure for children who perhaps struggle with scientific processes. This resource aims to show how storytelling and science can go hand in hand, be that in the classroom or at home, and that creativity is the catalyst not just for Shakespearians – but for scientists too.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Drama, Various

Remember, remember the fifth of November

This teaching resource is designed to provide some simple activities to try out with your children in relation to Bonfire Night. The activities use the performing arts and range from completing the story of Guy Fawkes to using movement to explore the actions of the fireworks with your body.

Key stage KS1

Topic Drama, Various

Say it with dance

The priority in one of my schools is to aid language development of Reception EAL learners. Here Artis Specialist, Holly, shares some activities and explains how they can help language development.

Key stage KS1, EYFS

Topic Communication, Drama, Literature

Ten top tips for teaching literacy through the performing arts

Using a variety of approaches can help maintain the children’s interest in their work, and the performing arts provide a buoyant, enjoyable platform from which to do this. Happily, you don’t need a wealth of performing arts experience to give these ideas a go, and you might find you give children who struggle with reading and writing a chance to shine in literacy lessons.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Music, Drama, Literature

Ten top tips for teaching maths through the performing arts

These ten tips for teaching Maths through the arts at primary level are designed to give teachers a boost. You don’t have to be a trained performer to use the ideas below, and with any luck, they may help push your results graph a little further up the y-axis!

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Music, Drama, Maths

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Lynne Gavin, Head, Pakeman Primary

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