News: Autumn 2 2019-20

The Royal Shakespeare Company have announced a new educational conference to take place at the Barbican this January. ‘Towards a Creative Curriculum’ will focus on the crucial role that arts and cultural learning play in young people's lives and how this can support the new Ofsted framework. Aimed at Early Years to Key Stage 3 educators, the event will feature keynote speeches from Global Teacher Prize winner Andria Zafirakou and professor of Creative Education at the Warwick Business School, Jonothan Neelands, as well as talks from various experts in the arts/education fields on how cultural learning can deepen pupil engagement and improve resilience, creativity, oracy and confidence. Delegates can expect to enrich their knowledge of arts-based learning in the classroom and learn more about best practice from across the country.