Cultural Learning Directory
Find the right cultural partner to support your class’s learning objectives
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.
The Cartoon Museum: Create A Comic Strip
Design your own character, practise drawing them from different viewpoints, and use a simple narrative structure to write and draw a one-page comic-strip story.
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!
Two Temple Place: Primary School Workshops
Two Temple Place offer free creative schools workshops to Key Stage 2 classes from state Primary Schools around London. These workshops follow the curriculum, encourage conversation and support young people engaging with the exhibitions.
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: SEND Programme
Discover amazing armour, encounter a sensory landscape, or explore powerful portraits through free museum visits and outreach sessions for SEND students.