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Slough School Projects
Curriculum Development
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
STEAM
Visual Literacy
- Storytrails Slough — provides an immersive digital experience for residents to explore Slough through a new lens.
- Leanne Armstrong — author, graphic designer and illustrator.
- Emily Fellah — illustration tutorials with free printables to try in the classroom.
Support for art across the curriculum, reinforced to SLT and Governors
Professional Bodies
Artswork
Crafts Council
Royal Society of Arts
The Big Draw
- Homepage — an organisation that believes in the benefit of visual literacy. Aims to make creative endeavours more accessible.
The National Literacy Trust
- Homepage — an organisation committed to streamlining schools’ literary provisions.
ArtUK
- The Superpower of Looking — a new initiative to support visual literacy in primary schools, taking the world of art and images as its starting point.
Sky Arts
- Access All Week — offers some great opportunities for schools to engage with arts, culture and creativity during 19-23 June 2023.
MAKE Free Creative Resources for Teachers
- The Big Make — MAKE is Milton Keynes’ Cultural Education Partnership and as part of their The Big Make activity 2021, MAKE worked with 15 artists to create video workshops to inspire creativity in children and young people. The workshops, lasting between 5 and 15 minutes each, provide an excellent way into considering a creative task and can be used to promote well-being and team building. There is a range of FREE videos, suitable for ages 4-18.
National Art Pass
Useful databases and research/case studies
Early Years
Subject Associations
Outdoor Learning and Wellbeing
Artists, designers and sculptors
Film, Drama and Digital Media
London/National Museums and Galleries
Non-Slough sites that offer cross-curricular programmes and resources
- Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles — delivers primary workshops linked to prehistory, science, Victorians and WW2 (historic baking, shelter-building and more). Great open-air site with a farm and its own Iron Age house.
- The Commonwealth Wargraves Commission, Maidenhead — offers a range of resources such as an activity booklet and research guides.
- Eton College Natural History Museum — offers free workshops linked to their collections: the natural world, Greeks, Tudors and more.
- LEGOLAND, Windsor — provides cross-curricular sessions and resources.
- The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
- Norden Farm Arts Centre, Maidenhead — offers creative activities linked to art and dance. Have a remit for RBWM (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead) schools but also connect with Slough schools.
- Reading Museum — offer learning workshops both at the Museum and virtually. They also hire out loan boxes filled with artifacts and objects to schools, including contextual information about the objects.
- The Handle Bards — Touring Shakespeare theatre company that performs for schools.
- Royal Holloway, Egham — offers various activities and resources as part of their Widening Access program.
- REME (Royal Electric and Mechanical Engineers) Museum, Chippenham — offers outreach sessions in connection to WW2 history and STEM.
- River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames
- Roald Dahl Museum, Great Missenden — provides school trips and sessions with the Roald Dahl Museum, including live streaming sessions.
- Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham — provides free gallery visits as well as local artists’ resources to schools.
- Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology — concerned with object-based learning, they offer sessions on the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians.
- Windsor and Royal Borough Museum — offer collections, as well as online podcasts, linked to local history.
- Windsor Castle — grants school visits and resources.
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