With many years’ experience promoting and supporting creative learning in schools, Culture Shift is uniquely placed to support your school or academy with bespoke curriculum projects, professional development, and events, or to work with you to reflect on and review your arts and cultural provision and support.
We work extensively across the arts, cultural and heritage sector. Our database of creative professionals includes experts in
- visual arts
- film, photography and digital media
- dance, theatre and outdoor events
- design
- literature and spoken word
If your school is looking for a creative professional to enhance the curriculum, Culture Shift can support you to find the right individual to fit your specific circumstances.
We assist in recruitment, selection and contracting, and provide ongoing support to see the relationship through any bumps in the road.
Browse our portfolio to see the range of professionals we’ve worked with in schools, or contact us to discuss your needs.
Culture Shift works with a network of highly experienced professionals across all creative disciplines. Creative professionals have extensive experience of working in and with schools, and relationships are brokered and supported by our team of Associate project managers.
From short-term celebrations, to longer term interventions, we are as comfortable enhancing specific areas of the curriculum, such as Maths and Literacy, as we are addressing under-achievement, or building confidence and self-esteem with targeted groups of young people.
Bespoke projects are built on a foundation of tried and tested methods and our expertise in Arts Award and Artsmark means we can deliver additional value to any project.
Browse our portfolio to see some of the projects we have delivered in schools, or contact us to discuss your needs.
In addition to our open courses, providing regular training in Arts Award and Artsmark, Culture Shift delivers bespoke professional development courses to schools and academies.
All our courses are fun, relevant and creative, and are underpinned by robust expertise: we draw on the support of specialist educationalists, alongside our wide network of creative professionals, to provide the right mix of expertise and input.
Bespoke courses are created in response to schools’ needs. They can be delivered to smaller or larger groups, as INSET or twilight sessions, or through another model to suit your circumstances. Units are available in the following subject areas:
- Creative approaches to special educational needs (including alternative accreditation via Arts Award)
- Creativity and maths
- Creativity and literacy
- Supporting pupil voice
- Cross-curricular learning
- Harnessing the arts to enhance spiritual, moral, social and cultural learning
- Creative uses of technology
Contact us to discuss your needs.
We support schools with enrichment activities and additional provision, such as summer schools and after school clubs. These can be in delivered to individual schools or school clusters.
For example, Culture Shift worked with the Hastings Academy to deliver a Summer School for students from eight different primary schools due to join the Academy in September.
We help schools generate opportunities for families to take part in creative activities with their children, for example through Encounter Culture events.
We provide creative expertise and quality creative professionals to arts enrichment activities such as Arts Week, and enrich PPA cover with artistic input.
As experts in Arts Award and Artsmark, we are able to add value to any programme.
Schools fund arts and creative activity involving Culture Shift using departmental budgets, targeted support such as Pupil Premium or PTA fundraising, strategic investment, sometimes clustering together with other settings or working with external partners or sponsors. If you’d like to work with us we’re happy to talk more about how your school might be able to make it happen.
At the gate in the morning – children are more confident, parents welcoming, interested, happy, togetherness, so positive.
Head teacher
Our staff grew in confidence in working collaboratively and letting students’ ideas, concerns and skills shape the whole process including evaluations. We learned to use creativity in all aspects of our planning.
Deputy Headteacher
This project encouraged [the students] to review, reflect and improve on their work… The amount of learning in maths and science has been phenomenal.
Teacher
The project has definitely enabled me to be more creative. For example, having decent speed trials made the work with the buggies more relevant.
Teacher
It gave kids confidence, enhanced self-esteem in all manner of things – really wonderful!
Teacher
After taking part in this project any activity that involves others has improved and lessons are calmer with children sharing, turn taking and listening.
Teacher
This has been a very positive developmental experience for the children both socially and emotionally.
Teacher
The young people learnt a number of new skills such as self-discipline, performance skills, listening skills, patience, technical ability, confidence, appreciating and benefiting from seeing and being involved in how a film is made.
Teacher
It’s definitely boosted my confidence. My teachers are saying I’m involving myself more in lessons.
Secondary school student
It gave us a chance to use our own ideas and to get out and about more, it also gave us a chance to see how things work in the real world.
Secondary school student
I’ve really enjoyed the project; it’s helped me to think more positively about school.
Secondary school student
Because I’ve fallen in love with this, it’s given me the incentive to work hard and do this in my life. I know the grades I need to get in [to a degree course in Events Management]; I know what I’m aiming for.
Secondary school student
I’ve been clapped in class; it made me feel happy. I feel proud to have been part of this project.
Secondary school student
It was hard but in a good way. He made us keep going, to think about things and to make changes.
Primary school pupil
My mummy will be so proud of me, I’m a play leader.
Primary school pupil
It’s different. At school you don’t learn about puppets and get to play. Being outside gave me a different view.
Primary school pupil
It was great because I’d never been to the gallery with my parents before and we got to take them in the art store.
Primary school pupil
