Cultural Learning Directory
Find the right cultural partner to support your class’s learning objectives
English National Opera: HMS Pinafore ENO Relaxed Performance
All aboard HMS Pinafore for Gilbert & Sullivan’s hilarious musical tale of a nautical love triangle. The comic opera navigates the tricky waters of class, rank, patriotism and power, in their signature slapstick style. In ENO’s 2025/26 London Coliseum season, there is a Relaxed Performance of HMS Pinafore on Thursday 29 January 2026, 2pm.
The Courtauld: Seminar Sessions
Join us for our Seminar Sessions series, which offers Year 12 (or equivalent) students the chance to learn and discover Art History through live discussions with fellow art historians from across the UK. Selected attendees will join small, online seminars led by two current research (PhD) students, and each week will take a look at a different discussion topic within Art History.
The Courtauld: From Greek Columns to American Skyscrapers: An Introduction to Architecture
Attend our From Greek Columns to American Skyscrapers: An Introduction to Architecture in-person workshop to explore these questions and develop a foundation of key architectural histories.
The Courtauld: Sense of Self
What is a self-portrait? How do artists reveal their identity through self-portraiture? Join us to debate these questions alongside exploring The Courtauld’s new schools/colleges exhibition, Sense of Self.
Two Temple Place: Teachers CPD Session
Secondary school teachers! Join us for a day of inspiration in the magical setting of Two Temple Place. Focusing on creativity for wellbeing, this free CPD is inspired by our upcoming exhibition Weight of Being (24 January – 19 April 2026). It will give you time to be creative, experiment with new materials and provide tips and activities that you can take back into the classroom.
Donmar Warehouse: Pathways Work Experience Programme
Donmar’s Pathways programme is designed to introduce young people aged 16-18, from Camden & Westminster, to the range of career pathways available in theatre and the wider creative industries.
Go Live Theatre Projects: Education Matinees
Go Live regularly organises Education Matinees for West End shows whereby the entire performance is given over to state school pupils at a heavily subsidised price, enabling young people to enjoy a show (many for the first time) in the company of their peers.
Paddington Arts: Photo Walk
Introduction to photography as a creative artform; choose colour and shape as a theme to get young people to look at the world with a camera eye, and a composition perspective; We go on a guided Photowalk of the local area. We then print the photos, and bring them into the classroom.
Puppet Barge Theatre: Puppet Show
Join us for a private performance of the current show on the Puppet Theatre Barge with a Q&A afterwards.
Creative Futures: The Word
Whether you want to put on a Poetry Slam or a more reflective poetry project, we have numerous spoken word artists on our books who are experienced in delivering inspiring and thought-provoking poetry and spoken word workshops. Projects can be linked to (e.g.) specific curriculum themes, milestone events or Year 6 transition and can conclude with outputs such as a printed anthology or performance event.
Creative Futures: Musical Games
Musical Games is a vocal improvisation and body percussion project designed to build children’s self-confidence and resilience. It is delivered by two Creative Futures musicians who are respectively also a Speech and Language Therapist and Music Therapist. Participating children will work together to create rhythms, songs, collective movement and sound which will support physiological wellbeing.
Creative Futures: Sound & Symbol
Sound & Symbol is an early years music project designed to support social-emotional development, communication, language, and emergent literacy. The project is rooted in research and practice and includes child-initiated play, and group activities with story books, singing, instruments, movement and mark-making.
English National Opera: Finish This…
Finish This... is ENO's free* nation-wide music making programme for schools. We invite students to step into the role of composer and finish a purposely unfinished piece of operatic music.
English National Opera: School Membership
English National Opera offers a free membership for Primary, Secondary and SEND students. This includes access to free tickets to our Dress Rehearsals and School Ticket Nights.
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation: Artist Studio Visits & Exhibition Guided Tours
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation is a charitable arts organisation spanning four sites across London. We provide the public with opportunities to engage with contemporary art through a diverse range of activities, including art exhibitions, educational workshops, film screenings, poetry evenings, music performances, talks, and other cultural events.
The Courtauld: Learning workshops and Tours
The Courtauld offers free Learning opportunities for schools, colleges and young people to explore the dynamic subject of art history and engage in lively discussion and creative activity.
The Cartoon Museum: Spider Potato
A special session for early years children, where they draw some famous superhero faces and then create a silly superhero and draw it onto a blank Marvel-style comic cover.
The Cartoon Museum: World War I & II in Cartoons
Which World War II cartoonist wound up on Hitler’s ‘Death List’ and why? Who changed the look of British cartoons with his propaganda posters? Who had the funniest moustache, Kaiser Wilhelm or Adolf Hitler?
The Cartoon Museum: Caricatures
Explore caricatures in the museum’s collection – from the 18th century to the present day - and learn how to simply draw funny portraits of some famous people.
The Cartoon Museum: Superheroes
Create their own costumed adventurer and a dastardly villain, and draw them in action onto a Marvel-style front cover.