New fund to promote learning through the arts in schools

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Cultural organisations and primary schools will be supported to work collaboratively to bring the arts into classrooms across the UK, following the launch of new fund by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) this week.

The Teacher Development Fund (TDF) will invest around £750k a year in partnership projects that promote learning through the arts by providing training for teachers.

The programme aims to address a confidence and skills gap preventing teachers from delivering effective arts-based teaching, and will build upon and apply best practice in Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL).

It follows on from a successful pilot, which found that helping teachers to adopt arts-based techniques was an effective way of teaching children a range of subjects and skills, from Shakespeare and storytelling to foreign languages and numeracy... Keep reading on ArtsProfessional