Keeping your curriculum broad and balanced: Celebrating the arts and humanities in primary schools

Subjects such as art, music, drama, history and geography play a vital role in children’s education, yet many schools find it increasingly challenging to protect time and resources for them alongside the pressures of maths and English.

This conference creates a space to reflect on why these subjects matter and how they enrich children’s learning and wellbeing. From nurturing creativity and curiosity to developing empathy, cultural understanding and critical thinking, the arts and humanities help children make sense of the world around them.

Through classroom examples and research insights, speakers will share practical approaches and real experiences that help sustain a broad and balanced curriculum in practice.

Whether you are a teacher, school leader, researcher or arts practitioner, this conference offers a valuable opportunity to reflect, connect and reimagine what a truly broad and balanced primary curriculum can look like in practice.

This event will be particularly useful for students, teachers, school leaders, arts practitioner, researchers, academics, policymakers.

Speakers

• Lauren Child – award-winning children’s author and illustrator
• Usha Goswami – Yidan Prize winner and Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
• Chris Haughton – children’s author, illustrator and designer
• Pete Moorhouse – educational creative consultant and artist
• Tara Page – artist, researcher and Professor of Pedagogy, Goldsmiths, University of London

Related links

• Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0–11 years)
• Department of Learning and Leadership

Image

Illustration ©Lauren Child, 2009.