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Culture Bridge North East is seeking to commission a Freelance Communications Professional to manage our new virtual CPD (continuous professional development) offer for schools across the North East.

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By Lisa Hall, Arts and Culture Leader, Cragside Primary

Artsmark has reaffirmed our commitment to a creative ethos and has encouraged all levels of the school to see the arts as a vital element of our school development plan.

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We spoke to Ruth Brown, Head of Art & The Creative Arts Faculty and three of the young people within her care at Duchess’s Community High School...

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Recently, I was asked the question ‘Why did you decide to do an apprenticeship?’ Seeing as it’s National Apprentice Week, I’ve been thinking about this question a lot...

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Deadline: 7 March 2019

Culture Bridge North East is seeking to commission a consultant to design and deliver a new and exciting creative CPD offer for schools across the North East.

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We met with Rachael Rickwood, Assistant Producer (Children and Young People) at BALTIC to discuss how the gallery is working with secondary schools in the North East to achieve Arts Award Gold.

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Priory Woods is a community special school situated in Middlesbrough. The school works hard to provide its pupils with inclusive education for students who have severe learning difficulties and those with profound and multiple needs aged 4-19.

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By Mel Carter, CBNE Area Manager

Mel talks about her experience of being part of the 2018/19 cohort for the Extend Leadership Programme, which is a professional development programme for those working in learning and education roles across all art forms.

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Often one of the biggest challenges apart from securing funding is being able to understand the real benefits of investing in Artsmark or Arts Award and in this blog we explain the main differences between these two independent arts-based schemes.

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Alex Cunningham MP for Stockton North, recently met with staff and pupils from Wolviston Primary School and Northfield School and Sports College to hear about their Artsmark journeys and to see first-hand the impact and value of cultural learning in both schools.

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A day that not only imagines but catalyses change in the cultural and education sectors.
By Megan Savage, from This is Creative Enterprise (TICE)

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Culture Bridge North East has appointed Catherine Hearne, as its Advisory Board Chair and Gemma Dyer, as Vice Chair.

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3rd Annual SEND Conference 26th March 2019

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By Charlotte Jones, Curriculum Leader for the Creative Arts, Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools, Morpeth

Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools were awarded Platinum Artsmark in October 2017.

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By Joy Youngman, Assistant Learning Officer, Laing Art Gallery & Shipley Art Gallery

Laing and Shipley Art Galleries have been Artsmark Partners since February 2018. As an organisation we’re obviously huge advocates for the arts in education, and being an Artsmark Partner gives us the opportunity to really support schools and teachers to promote the arts and ensure that it becomes (and stays!) integral within their educational setting.

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By Tracey Hutchinson, The Dales School, Blyth

At The Dales School, we work with primary age children with a range of individual educational challenges.

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By Helen Green, Children and Young Peoples Lead, Live Theatre

This concept of ‘playing out’ resonates with a piece of work Live Theatre, Baltic, and Sage Gateshead are currently developing together. This happened almost accidentally. All three organsations have recently become Artsmark Partners and in parallel all three organisations were involved in the Great Exhibition of the North.

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By Joanna Bailey, Chief Executive Officer, Tees Valley Collaborative Trust

When we received an invitation to participate in a pilot scheme including sixth form colleges in the Artsmark family I knew straight away that I wanted our college to participate...

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By Tracey Round, Foundation Stage Manager, Burradon Community Primary School

Burradon Community Primary School is currently reapplying for Artsmark. As a community school within a small pit village we have a wealth of heritage that defines who we are and we have had the opportunity to explore this in a range of different art forms across the years.

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by Michelle Makepeace, Swansfield Park Primary School

Our experience of Artsmark has taken us on a pro-active, but at the same time, extremely reflective journey.

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