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.
Wigmore Hall: Family Concert: Toot!
Family Concert: Toot! In this thrilling schools concert, five playful musicians set off on an unforgettable journey through music and make-believe, with a little help from a magical dressing-up box! Hike through enchanted forests, explore mysterious caves, and soar to the moon in a homemade rocket! Perfect for kids ages 4 - 9, this action-packed concert brings the stage to life with creativity, imagination, and plenty of surprises. Watch as the music guides the way and discover where the next adventure takes you!
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.
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.
Two Temple Place: Activity Trails
Follow one of our two family trails, one for older explorers and one for younger, to take an adventure through the entire building!
Royal Ballet & Opera: Live Lessons
Bring the Royal Ballet & Opera LIVE into your classroom with these free, short, digital live lessons - held every term.
Wallace Collection: Visits and Workshops for Primary Schools
Connect with The Wallace Collection’s world-class art collection through interactive museum visits and online sessions designed for KS1-2.
Serpentine: Self-Guided Group Visits
A free, pre-booked school visit to Serpentine where you and your students can independently explore at your own pace.
Royal Academy of Arts: Young Artists' Summer Show
An annual, free, open submission exhibition for young artists aged 4–18 years studying in the UK.
Royal Academy of Arts: Primary School Workshops
The Royal Academy's primary school workshops are thematic, cross-curricular and revolve around the creative thinking process.
The Science Museum: Group Visits
Science themed activities for different ages at the Science Museum, the home of human ingenuity, igniting curiosity about science.
 
                         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
