Our residential centres offer bespoke creative experiences tailored to your school and community. We understand the challenges of delivering a broad curriculum, especially in the arts, and we’re here to help.
Through Creative & Performing Arts residentials, or a blend of arts and adventure activities, we create sessions that:
? Link to your curriculum and PSHE topics
? Develop key skills and confidence
? Boost engagement in learning
? Provide a memorable experience that supports personal growth
These courses are aimed at raising attainment in the Creative and Performing Arts and support schools with their formal GCSE and A Level syllabuses.
These residential courses are attended by over 1,000 students a year and the feedback from pupils and teachers alike is that they contribute to achieving higher grades.
““We would just like to say a big thank you for Art GCSE weekend that we attended. It was brilliant and students thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and weekend. We were very impressed with the workshops and staff at the centre.” – Rainford High
Edsential’s Artists And Authors programme is an exciting opportunity to work flexibly with a creative practitioner to enrich curriculum delivery, support skills development and embed a creative culture across your school. The provision can be online, in person or a blended approach to suit your requirements.
A residency can be anything from a few weeks to a full academic year and beyond, including residential provision, and is planned to fit to your school’s vision for a cultural curriculum through, for example:
“We have very recently been inspected and the work that you have done at various points with our children has been described as “stunning” in the report!” David Jobling – Head Teacher, St Michael’s Academy, Crewe
Edsential specialises in developing and running cultural projects that involve creative and performing artists and educators working with pupils to produce high quality pieces of work.
Delivery for an Arts Project is school-based and may begin with a visit to a cultural venue or landmark, a creative workshop or a book / author study, and culminate in an exhibition / performance in an inspiring setting.
Cluster schools and MATs may wish to develop this into a shared Arts Festival; a bespoke provision for cohorts of schools creating inspiring opportunities for pupils’ to perform and for schools to engage their wider communities. The service involves planning, liaising with identified co-ordinators and cultural venues, providing expert tuition in the Creative and Performing Arts, developing a programme, managing logistics, hosting an art exhibition and running the event.
Some schools may want to explore using the arts to support transition between Years 6 and 7 – this could link to the highly-popular residential courses here..
“As your story telling fellow said – its days like that that will live in the memory.”
Darryl Pickering, Head Teacher, Cambridge Road Primary School
“My teacher said it was the best festival we had attended, and was hugely impressed!” Sutton Green Primary School
