Innovative resources

Entry Level 1-3 (ages 15 to 19) Downloadable PDF

Creative writing activities for working with young asylum and refugee communities, for educators, community facilitators, writers and artists. Activities are designed to be flexible with where they can take place: in educational settings, community settings or cultural venues. Includes printable templates and session plans.

Key stages 1- 3 Downloadable PDF

The resource is a ‘how to guide’ on engaging families interested in the arts to build skills and confidence around literacy, creative writing and storytelling. It includes example activities, ways in, perspectives on the project from partners, example project plans and the ‘ingredients’ that make a project of this type work.

Key stages 3 & 4 Downloadable PDF

A toolkit, exploring how to engage with contemporary art in unusual places using creative writing and visual art techniques.

Key Stages 3 and 4 Downloadable PDF

The activities in this resource are designed to help students improve their creative writing and literacy skills, improve self-confidence and self-appreciation, and develop creative expressivity and imaginative responses through engagement with the visual stimulus of photographs.

Key Stage 2 Downloadable PDF

This resource is designed to support Key Stage 2 teachers delivering an architecture themed literacy project in the classroom.

Key Stage 4 Downloadable Zip archive

GCSE Unit of work including pocket-sized prompt booklet for students.

Key Stage 3 Downloadable PDF

Inspired by the local industrial heritage landscape and art works of former steel workers, this pdf slide resource highlights different approaches to the literacy development of boy’s in Year 6 and 7 through creative writing techniques including storytelling and poetry.

Key Stage 4 Downloadable PDF

The Stories from the Inside Out pdf resource introduces users to the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, along with pupil responses to the artwork and ‘top tips’.

SEN Downloadable PDF

The Gallery E-Tran Frame is designed to support communication and agency for non-verbal people in art galleries.

Key Stage 1 and 2 Downloadable PDF

Talking Pictures offers a step-by-step guide of how to create poems, together with curriculum links, for any teachers visiting an art gallery.

Key Stage 1 and 2 Short film

A short film demonstrates ways of raising literacy skills and confidence for year 5 pupils and their families, with the help of a well-known writer/poet, a flamenco musician and a prestigious painting.

Key Stage 1 and 2 Downloadable PDF

Activity cards with a maritime theme for younger pupils and supplementary teachers' notes. These encourage storytelling and creative writing for younger pupils or those for whom English is an additional language.

Key Stage 3 Downloadable PDF

Word play and guided writing techniques that are both challenging and playful, for educators interested in using contemporary art to inspire literacy.

Key Stage 3 Downloadable PDF

Activities to support a class project around a single artwork. Starting with fun descriptions of classmates and descriptive poems using the five senses, a series of workshops build up students' confidence so they can script a play.

Key Stages 3 & 4 Prezi presentation

A whiteboard-ready presentation using an historical painting to model a series of activities that help students make personal and creative connections with an artwork.