For a Limited Time Only
Speech Bubbles
Teacher Wellbeing: Film and Conversation
Heritage Schools Online Session
Nottingham Playhouse
In your setting
Speech Bubbles is a targeted, evidence-based intervention for children in KS1 who have a Speech, Language and Communication Need, made in conjunction with speech and language therapists.
Speech Bubbles sessions are a different kind of experience to a clinical intervention, practitioners work to create a space which is collaborative, playful and fun.
It is a 20-week (10 per term) workshop programme which supports children while also enhancing the skills of a member of school staff (a high-level TA, Learning Mentor or SENCo, for example) to run small group creative work.
The full cost of the programme is £3000+VAT across the 2 terms per school.
If you are interested in learning more about the programme, Nottingham Playhouse have a small number of free 90-minute teacher inset sessions available, that can be delivered as an introduction, on a first come, first served basis. Please email participation@nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk to register your interest.
Heritage Schools Online Session
Teacher Wellbeing: Film and Conversation
Heritage Schools Online Session
Historic England
Tues 24 September, 4-5pm
Online
Free
Would you like to develop your local history curriculum and make it more relevant and bespoke to your school?
This Autumn Term, the Heritage Schools Programme is offering a series of training sessions specifically for Nottingham City schools, all funded by the Department for Education and free to attend.
Training Session Overview:
1. Online Introduction (Tues 24 September, 4-5pm):
Our first session will be a one-hour online Teams training session. This introduction will familiarize you with the programme and demonstrate free online resources to help you begin exploring the story and heritage of your school.
2. Full-Day Training in Nottingham (date tbc):
The next session will be a full-day event at a central location in Nottingham. Participants will receive a bespoke map and aerial photograph pack, along with training on how to utilize these materials in various ways with your pupils. You will also learn how to develop your local history unit and receive additional resources and support. The day will include a heritage trail around central Nottingham, where you will uncover the hidden histories of the area and learn to use ‘standing archaeology’ as primary evidence within your history curriculum.
3. Ongoing Support Network:
Subsequent sessions will be arranged later in the term, providing an opportunity to join a support network with other teachers who share the same role. This network will foster collaboration and idea-sharing, ensuring continuous development and inspiration.
For more information about the training sessions, please contact: Ismail.Dale@historicengland.org.uk
Teacher Wellbeing: Film and Conversation
Teacher Wellbeing: Film and Conversation
Teacher Wellbeing: Film and Conversation
University of Nottingham
Tues 6 August & Tues 27 August
Broadway Cinema
Free (£5 travel expenses covered and free ticket to Broadway!)
Secondary teachers! Would you like to join other local teachers for free film screenings and discussion this summer?
On Tuesday August 6th (10am-2pm) Rhiannon Harries and John Marks from the University of Nottingham will be showing Laurent Cantet’s film The Class (2008) at the Broadway Cinema. The screening will be followed by an informal discussion on public perceptions of teaching promoted in film and other media versus the realities of the work teachers do.
A second event, including a screening of French-Canadian film Monsieur Lazhar (2011) will take place on August 27th
The events are part of a pilot project that aims, with the input of teachers themselves, to create an informal and convivial space for teachers to talk about their work.
If you would like to attend one or both of these events, book your place here to receive more information.
Streetwise Opera
Imagining Otherwise Exhibition
Teacher Wellbeing: Film and Conversation
Nottingham Playhouse
Years 6-9
Friday 19 July
1.30-2.30pm
Free
Get ready for a memorable journey into the world of opera with a creative experience that promises a thrilling blend of music, storytelling and fun. This free performance and workshop, aimed at pupils in Years 6 to 9, will spark their imagination and help them develop a wide range of creative skills.
Participants will learn concepts of songwriting, storytelling, character-building, composition, choreography and performance in a practical and enjoyable way. Led by experts from the world of theatre and music, students will collaborate across disciplines to co-create a compelling story.
Pupils will get to see the world premiere of a short opera co-created by the award-winning Streetwise Opera, working with people with lived experience of homelessness and world-class artists, to celebrate classical composers of African and Caribbean heritage, including the revolutionary Chevalier de Saint-Georges and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho.
To book, call 0115 941 9419
Imagining Otherwise Exhibition
Imagining Otherwise Exhibition
Imagining Otherwise Exhibition
Primary, Seely Rd, Lenton
KS2 upwards
8 June - 17 August
Free
Join Primary (an art gallery and studios in a converted Primary school) for a tour of their summer exhibition!
Exhibitions should not necessarily be fixed; they have the potential for change. 'Imagining Otherwise' will initially comprise three pre-existing works by artists Ashley Holmes, Jasleen Kaur, and Jala Wahid, before it is transformed. Framed by a series of live events (e.g., readings, performance, screenings or discussions) the artists will return to the artworks presented in the exhibition and withdraw, change or replace them, allowing us all to better witness the connections made between the artworks.
Or contact Primary directly for more information:
admin@weareprimary.org or 0115 924 4493
Connections
Imagining Otherwise Exhibition
Imagining Otherwise Exhibition
Connections - Deadline Mon 8 July
National Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse
Ages 13-19
Free
Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival. Every year, Connections commissions new plays for young people to perform. The programme brings together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. In 23/24, the National Theatre worked with over 250 youth companies from every corner of the UK.
Connections is open to any company of young people aged 13-19. You can be a school, a youth theatre or voluntary organisation. You can have lots of experience staging plays or none at all, and the idea is that the company work towards a staging a show at a professional theatre.
You will choose and perform a professional play commissioned by the National Theatre, supported by a weekend of workshops at the National and the Connections department staff.
Each company then performs their play at their ‘Partner Theatre’, and any Nottingham/Nottinghamshire ones are allocated to Nottingham Playhouse. Companies then perform as part of a Takeover festival and get to experience a real tech rehearsal, workshops with directors, Q&As with industry professionals, dressing rooms and meet and watch other companies’ work.
Applications for Connections 2025 are now open, and will close on Monday 8 July 2024 at midday.
Apply to take part in Connections 2025
Lakeside Arts Counter Culture exhibition
Lakeside Arts Counter Culture exhibition
Lakeside Arts Counter Culture exhibition
Until 21 July
Tues - Sat, 10-4pm
Djanogly Gallery
Lakeside Arts is the University of Nottingham’s public arts centre. Schools can book gallery visits and take part in storytelling and visual arts workshops at the venue.
The latest exhibition, Counter Culture, explores changing experiences on the high street. From Victorian pharmacies to the superstores of the 1980s and beyond, Boots stores have reflected our shifting social needs, cultural aspirations, and patterns of everyday life.
Using historic objects, images and architecture, Counter Culture looks at the creation of modern shopping, from both sides of the counter.
Rachel Feneley, the Learning Manager at Lakeside Arts, is also looking to collaborate with 14 schools in the autumn, who would like to help make a children's installation in the Warner Gallery, based on The Storm Whale, by Benji Davis, in time for Christmas.
The Storm Whale Trailer: https://youtu.be/QFEFAB03GpM
If interested, please contact Rachel: rachel.feneley@nottingham.ac.uk
See Lakeside Arts Primary Schools Offer (both School trips and In-School workshops available)
Make Some Noise
Lakeside Arts Counter Culture exhibition
Lakeside Arts Counter Culture exhibition
Nottingham Music Service
Years 5 & 6
Thurs 4 July 1:30pm – 5:15pm
Nottingham Albert Hall
Free for pupils
Parents tickets £2
A day full of music featuring Area Bands, String Folk, Salsa Jazz, Band Connect, Guitar Connect, Robin Hood Young Voices and the Robin Hood Youth Orchestra.
Rehearsals and workshops will begin from 1:30PM with Area Bands, followed by String Folk, Guitar Connect, Secondary Band Connect, Primary Band Connect, Salsa Jazz and the Robin Hood Young Voices. Beginner and intermediate groups will then be joined by the amazing Robin Hood Youth Orchestra. The final part of the event will be an open workshop with ticketed entry: 4:30PM to 5:15PM. Due to the high number of performers, tickets are limited to one family member per child.
The EYB: GISELLE
Lakeside Arts Counter Culture exhibition
The EYB: GISELLE
Theatre Royal & Concert Hall
Fri 19 July-Sat 20 July
Various times
6+ years
The English Youth Ballet promises an emotional and dramatic evening with a beautiful production of GISELLE that promises romance, betrayal and revenge.
Schools 10+ One free ticket for every ten tickets booked at the U26 rate in the Stalls & Upper Circle. Please email the Group Sales team or call 0115 989 5555 to book.
Streetwise Opera
In-School Concert with MishMash Ensemble
The EYB: GISELLE
Nottingham Playhouse
Years 6-9
Friday 19 July
1.30-2.30pm
Free
Get ready for a memorable journey into the world of opera with a creative experience that promises a thrilling blend of music, storytelling and fun. This free performance and workshop, aimed at pupils in Years 6 to 9, will spark their imagination and help them develop a wide range of creative skills.
Participants will learn concepts of songwriting, storytelling, character-building, composition, choreography and performance in a practical and enjoyable way. Led by experts from the world of theatre and music, students will collaborate across disciplines to co-create a compelling story.
Pupils will get to see the world premiere of a short opera co-created by the award-winning Streetwise Opera, working with people with lived experience of homelessness and world-class artists, to celebrate classical composers of African and Caribbean heritage, including the revolutionary Chevalier de Saint-Georges and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho.
To book, call 0115 941 9419
In-School Concert with MishMash Ensemble
In-School Concert with MishMash Ensemble
In-School Concert with MishMash Ensemble
Nottingham Chamber Music Festival
Monday 15 July 2024
Your School/Setting
Ages 7-11
Free to the participating school
Nottingham Chamber Music Festival would like to connect with Primary Schools in Nottingham who would like to have a school assembly visit of the MishMash Ensemble on Monday 15th July.
They are offering a 40-minute music presentation for 7-11 year olds. Please contact carmen@nottchamberfest.com by 1st June for more information.
Peter Pan
In-School Concert with MishMash Ensemble
In-School Concert with MishMash Ensemble
Theatre Royal & Concert Hall
Sat 7 Dec – Sun 12 Jan 2025
Various times
5+ years
Join Peter Pan and the characters you know and love this Christmas in this high-flying swashbuckling adventure.
Schools 10+ One free teacher ticket for every ten tickets booked at the U26 rate in the Stalls & Upper Circle. Please email the Group Sales team or call 0115 989 5555 to book.
Drama, Literature and Poetry
A Temple To Water
First Story: Year-Long Programmes
Lakeside: Storytelling Sessions
Dragon Breath Theatre
Papplewick Pumping Station Museum
May - July '24 Papplewick Pumping Station Victorian Museum
£300 for 60 children
An award-winning, day-long, immersive drama experience, exploring local history, engineering, science, geography, and contemporary environmental/global water management issues. The visit to this awe-inspiring Victorian site is part of an offer including extensive online cross-curriculum resources. It can be a one-off event, or support a half-term's thematic curriculum around water, science, geography, history and literacy. Children’s understanding of history is fostered and embedded through empathising with live characters’ stories, and by getting their hands on practical, kinaesthetic activities.
Lakeside: Storytelling Sessions
First Story: Year-Long Programmes
Lakeside: Storytelling Sessions
EYFS, KS1, KS2. Bring literacy to life with Lakeside Art’s storytelling sessions. Children are encouraged to join in the story using their imagination, props, and costumes. Using traditional oral storytelling skills pupils can explore themes, characters of traditional tales and myths.
First Story: Year-Long Programmes
First Story: Year-Long Programmes
First Story: Year-Long Programmes
Primary and Secondary. First Story’s extra-curricular Young Writers’ Programme includes writing workshops which equip students with the skills and confidence to tell their own stories, with whole-school activities which encourage writing for pleasure. It also includes CPD for educators and access to a range of resources, events and competitions. First Story’s work expands young
people’s horizons and encourages aspirations, giving participants the skills to thrive in education - and in life. Download the PDF. Staff can also access dedicated creative writing CPD.
Sport and Literacy Skills Academy
Sport and Literacy Skills Academy
First Story: Year-Long Programmes
Year 7 and 8. Secondary schools are still able to access this fun and effective catch up reading programme. Help students improve their reading, get them engaged and motivated and find their reason to read today. Skills Academy costs £150. You can register an unlimited number of students on the programme throughout your 12-month subscription. When you sign up to the programme your school also receives a year's membership of the National Literacy Trust worth £100, which gives you access to all of their resources.
Playhouse: Book A Backstage Tour
Sport and Literacy Skills Academy
Playhouse: Book A Backstage Tour
Give your students the opportunity to see what it’s like behind the scenes of Nottingham Playhouse, to understand the various roles in theatre and see the teams at work. Led by a member of the Participation Team, students will hear from professionals about what they do day-to-day and how their role contributes towards the productions.
Heritage and History
Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden
Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden
Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden
KS1-KS2. Sessions at 10.30-12.00 or 1.00-2.30. £5 per child
Using original artefacts see how stone age people hunted and fed themselves, made shelters and used their surroundings to sustain them. Have a go at your own piece of cave art and try out a bow saw.
National Justice Museum: Blended workshops
Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden
Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden
KS2-KS5. The National Justice Museum is offering blended learning workshops to schools unable to visit their site. Working with you, their expert facilitators will deliver live, interactive learning into your classroom. Workshops are held via Zoom and Teams, and can even be delivered to students at home if your school has temporarily closed.
National Justice Museum: Choices and Consequences
Discovery Days with Creswell Crags at Lakeside Arts
Discovery Days with Creswell Crags at Lakeside Arts
Years 7-9. Developed in partnership with the National Justice Museum and Ben Kinsella Trust, this workshop has been proven to make a difference in changing attitudes to knife crime among the young. To find out more please contact NJM.
Discovery Days with Creswell Crags at Lakeside Arts
Discovery Days with Creswell Crags at Lakeside Arts
Discovery Days with Creswell Crags at Lakeside Arts
Creswell Crags & University of Nottingham
Ages KS2
Mondays to Wednesdays - term time
Engaging and practical KS2 discovery days delivered by the Creswell Crags Learning Team at the University of Nottingham Museum, Lakeside Arts.
Designed to help your students’ understanding of the changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, a visit to the University of Nottingham Museum is the perfect way to learn about pre-historic Britain. Your students will have an opportunity to learn what we know about prehistory and how we know about the changes that took place.
Art and Design
Artist Experience Workshops
Music
Drumming and Wellbeing Workshops
MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble
MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble
Beatfeet
Your School or Setting
Year Round
All Ages
Free
Liven up your classes with bespoke and specialist drumming sessions! Specialising in West African and Brazilian music and dance, BeatFeet are the UK’s No.1 provider of drumming, dance & wellbeing workshops.Bring the heart of global musical cultures to your classroom.
MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble
MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble
MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble
Mishmash Productions
Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th July
In your school setting
£400 per performance
This summer MishMash Productions present a magical musical journey through an imaginative programme from across the ages. Witness 5 exceptional woodwind players bringing the young audience up close and personal to this wonderful music, musicians and instruments. Suitable for KS2 school audiences. 40 minutes in duration, to be performed in school (school hall required).
Nottingham Music Hub: Area Band
Nottingham Music Hub: Area Band
Nottingham Music Hub: Area Band
Primary.
Area Bands are beginner orchestral groups open to young people in city schools that have a Whole Class Ensemble or In Harmony programme in collaboration with Nottingham Music Hub. These bands are ideal for pupils (usually Year 5) who have completed one year of instrumental learning.
Noise Academy: DJ Lessons
Nottingham Music Hub: Area Band
Nottingham Music Hub: Area Band
Noise Academy can deliver weekly DJ lessons at your school or setting delivered by professional tutors. Students will work towards recording their own DJ mixes whilst gaining AQA accreditations.
Physical and Mental Wellbeing
Freedom Foundation: Drop Down Days
Freedom Foundation: Drop Down Days
Freedom Foundation: Drop Down Days
Ages: KS1-2
In their work with schools Freedom Foundation have seen an increase in anxiety, issues with attendance, lack of resilience and aspiration, and the negative impact of social media on young people. Drop Down Days cover important PSHE outcomes including identifying emotions, how to recognise and deal with anxiety, positive and negative impact of online behaviour, how social media and technology use affects mental wellbeing and improving self-confidence. Please email or phone for more information 0115 993 2370.
Freedom Foundation Assemblies
Freedom Foundation: Drop Down Days
Freedom Foundation: Drop Down Days
Freedom Foundation
Your School or Setting
Year Round
Free
Freedom Foundation have put together some taster sessions and assemblies showcasing what they deliver within their programmes. Their talks revolve around music, positive mindsets and mental health using creativity and the arts. There is no charge for a session and Freedom Foundation is interested in working with schools delivering termly or year-round sessions.
Creating Connections
Freedom Foundation: Drop Down Days
Freedom Foundation: Freedom Factory
Ages 8+
The Creating Connections learning activities have been designed by NAE Associate Artists Shamila Chady and Elaine Winter for for use at home or school. Creating Connections is designed to help young people make positive connections with others their age where there is a feeling of disconnectedness due to cultural and other differences.
Freedom Foundation: Freedom Factory
New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art
Freedom Foundation: Freedom Factory
Freedom Foundation deliver their 12 week Freedom Factory sessions in school time or as an after-school club. Using street dance and hip-hop, singing and song writing their 90 minute sessions with up to 30 children build confidence, resilience and aspiration, educate about the impact of social media on mental health and help children cope with common mental health problems such as anxiety, stress, depression and self-harm.
New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art
New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art
New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art
NAE’s Associate Artists have been devising dynamic art activity ideas for young people and these are now accessible for teachers, parents and young people to download from the NAE website.
Everything Else
Children's University
The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity
The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity
Ages 7-11
Do you work with children aged 7–14 to provide extracurricular learning opportunities? Sign up to Children’s University (CU) for free and join us as we recognise and celebrate extracurricular! Nottingham Trent CU is coordinated at Nottingham Trent University. Our goal is for participants to feel the joy of learning beyond the classroom whilst having an enriching experience building their cultural capital. Interested?
The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity
The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity
The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity
Suitable for all Primary and Secondary Pupils
As part of FOSAC (Nottingham's annual Festival of Science and Curiosity in Feb each year) pupils develop their own science investigations about the questions that matter to them, and work with scientists who specialise in that field to help work out the answers. flexible for different ages, time-frames and the topics can be tailored to support curriculum teaching and extra-curricular activity in your school.. Take a look at this year's highlights!
The ChalleNGe Activities Pack
The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity
The ChalleNGe Activities Pack
We're pleased to bring you the second edition of our free creative activities pack designed for Nottingham’s children and young people. It’s filled with over 40 engaging and fun activities created by 20 of Nottingham’s arts organisations.
Votes for Schools
Wollaton Hall: Discover The Amazing Trees
The ChalleNGe Activities Pack
Votes for Schools is an award-winning platform giving your students a voice on the issues that affect them the most, as well as supporting you to consistently embed SMSC, British Values and Prevent across your school.
Wollaton Hall: Discover The Amazing Trees
Wollaton Hall: Discover The Amazing Trees
Wollaton Hall: Discover The Amazing Trees
Meet some of Wollaton’s magnificent trees, learn to identify them and take a closer look at their leaves, flowers, bark and seeds as well as the animal life that lives on and around them. Fun practical science activities including measuring trees, comparing leaf shapes and bark patterns and finding out what woodlice like. You’ll see species of trees whose ancestors lived at the same time as dinosaurs.