Cultural Education Hub Overview

How our programme will help schools and education settings enhance their cultural education services.

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WEMA

A Programme Of High Quality Cultural Experiences

We aim to give every child in the region the chance to engage with inspiring cultural activities, both in school and beyond, supporting them to achieve their aspirations and gain access to a broad range of cultural activity.

The Cultural Education Hub delivers high quality cultural and creative experiences through fun and inclusive interactive sessions and workshops for your students. Creative freelancers and organisations will also work with your teachers to offer exciting CPD learning opportunities.

The Hub supports schools, MATs, practitioners and cultural organisations to work together on innovative opportunities to deepen young people’s engagement with the curriculum, and provide inspiring creative and cultural opportunities for them within and beyond schools.    

CPD will be fully-funded and generous grants are available to enable schools to take part in the offer from creative practitioners.  

Ways we will engage with schools and education settings

  • Explore practical ways in which your school can develop and improve your creative curriculum and practices. 
  • Consider ways in which partnerships created through this programme can support curriculum and staff development, student motivation and outcomes, mental health and wellbeing. 
  • Design opportunities to deepen your students’ engagement with creative and cultural learning and explore ways to develop these through collaborating with a wide range of creative practitioners. 
  • Build connections that support students to gain insights into pathways for studying and working in the creative and cultural industries through unique opportunities for your students and staff to collaborate with a range of local, regional and national delivery partners. 
  • Learn more about creative and cultural experiences across the region that are available to young people.

Contact

We believe this innovative new program will add benefit to your school, so if you have any specific enquiries please use the button below to contact our Programme Lead Megan Clarke.

Funding

West of England Cultural Education Hub is supported through funding from the West of England Combined Authority and Arts Council England, and is a strand of the Culture West programme. The Hub is led by West of England Music and Arts, and supported by a steering group of schools, facilitators and cultural organisations.