Resources
In this section you will find loads of resources to support you as a teacher, practitioner, young person, or community group- there’s funding info, resource packs, opportunities, useful links…have a look!
Useful Links and Resources
- Nowhere Island – Resources for schools
- The Safe Network – safeguarding children and young people
- The Man with No Shoes – written by members of Writing Squad Kernow
- Community Toolkit – information to help smaller community activities
- Free tool for measuring readiness for change
- Hoolybus – Cornish song book and CD for primary schools
- Online resource for artists and craft-makers – ArtQuest
- Where Music Happens – Cornwall Music Forum’s new website
- Films for Learning
- Free resources for using film in education
- Free Musical Futures resource materials
- Young People’s Writing Squads new website
- Foundations for Excellence
- Plain English guide to data protection
- StartaTheatreCompany.com
- Tate online course in artists’ techniques
- Working For A Charity’s online course
- Floodlight training courses in Cornwall
- A Guide to copyright licensing in schools
- New website devoted to young cellists
- New poetry project – Likestarlings
- Info sheet: National resources for writers and literature professionals in the UK and Ireland
- Guide to buying musical instruments
- Connecting with People by David Aynsley
- Artsedsw
- ArtSprouts Early Years Arts Resource Book
- Everybody Writes online resource for writing in education
- Tate online course in artists’ techniques
- Resources for Funding Advisors
- SANe, the Social Arts Network
- Creative steps
- Arts on the move
- how2fundraise.org
- AccessArt
- AccessArt Family Learning
- Making Matters
- GrantsExpert.co.uk
- Cultivate
- Shy Drawing, Loud Drawing- Drawing Resource
- Writing Together
- Talented Young People website
- LabforCulture
- Artsplan training & publications
- Ideas Explorers
- Animation for Education toolkit
- Film Street
- Demos
- Arts Council England
- Cornwall Children Young People and Family Services Directory
- Directory of Social Change Publications
- Dance In and Beyond Schools – An essential guide to dance teaching
- Useful websites for young filmakers and their educators
- artscape: the national directory for arts in education
- Practical Funding for Schools newsletter
- Spoken/Written Bulletin S.W. – Live Lit. & Word Art e-newsletter
Early Years Resources
Below are a selection of documents from the National Strategy for Early Years showing how creativity and the arts are an integral part of good practice within Early Years Foundation Stage.
- Practice guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Confident, capable and creative
- Learning, Playing and Interacting
- Mark Making Matters
- Finding and exploring young children’s fascinations
- Messy Play- Bernadette Duffy
- Guidance to Creative Development at Foundation Stage
- Creativity and critical thinking – In depth
- Parents as Partners – In depth
- Play and Exploration – In depth
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