Leading the Arts in Your School: Cohort 2

Embed creativity, culture, and the arts across your school
For teachers
Wed 30 Sep 09:30 - Thu 25 Feb 16:30
Online & In-person (NW England)

Leading the Arts in Your School is a professional development programme early to mid-career educators who want to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to be an outstanding arts leader in any school setting. 

We are currently accepting applications for our Sep 26 - Mar 27 cohort.

 

Cohort 2

Sept 2026 - March 2027

Apply before 24 July 2026.

“It's allowed me to approach SLT with a completely different mindset, and ... the empowerment and knowledge to go and really focus on arts within our school.”

2022-23 Participant

The content of the course will be kept completely up to date with any changes to national policy, for example the Curriculum Review recommendations, the proposed changes to the Enrichment Benchmarks and OFSTED.

You’ll finish this course reinvigorated and equipped with everything you need to be an effective, up-to-date arts leader.

What's covered?

A combination of in-person, online and independent learning will cover:

  • What quality and richness in arts education and cultural learning looks like
  • Up-to-date knowledge of policies affecting cultural education and their implications for your school
  • A deepened understanding of effective ways to approach arts leadership to energise your colleagues
  • Improved understanding of arts and cultural organisations, and how to partner, commission and engage with them to maximise benefit your students
  • Identifying the key drivers and benefits of arts and culture for your school to prepare you to be a powerful advocate to all stakeholders
  • Focused sessions on how Health and Wellbeing, Youth Voice, Equality Diversity and Inclusion, and
  • Careers and Employability can all be boosted through quality arts provision.

You’ll finish this course ready to hit the ground running, with a firm action plan, backed up by a Theory of Change.

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