Supporting Schools New To AccessArt – Spring Term 2025
If you are thinking about joining AccessArt during 2025, you can find lots of information here to help you understand more about how AccessArt can help develop excellent art teaching and learning in your school. Explore below:
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Our offer to schools – learn more about our approach and what makes AccessArt so special.
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Read teacher feedback about AccessArt.
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Find ideas about how you can trial our resources with your pupils and teachers, and how you might transition from existing planning.
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Access a recording of a Zoom introductory session, including Q&A’s, access to a Powerpoint to introduce teachers to AccessArt, & art material freebies!
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Ask for help 🙂
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How to Join AccessArt.
The AccessArt Offer To Primary Schools
AccessArt is a UK Visual Arts Education Charity and we are also a Subject Association for Art. We have over 22,000 members using our resources in schools and community settings, and over 41,000 subscribers.
What makes us special? We are passionate about what we do. We have just one charitable aim which is to further the advancement of visual arts education, and through our creative vision we are proud to help support the visual arts education of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Our approach is trusted also by many Universities who use our resources within arts teacher training contexts.
We offer schools access to the AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum, a rich, diverse, engaging and highly flexible curriculum. We also offer ongoing CPD to build teacher understanding and enjoyment, and you can also use our resources and approach to expand upon your own planning or scheme.
We are a self-supporting charity and our independence gives us strength of vision and autonomy. We also work with experts in the field who help support the considerable in-house expertise. We do not create resources for anyone else – instead we remain true to our vision, knowledge and experience. Explore our Core Values.
The AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum – Impact & Evidence Autumn 2023
Since the launch of the new AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum in 2022, we have seen a large number of new members sign up to use the resources in schools to help inspire and enable a rich, diverse and flexible visual arts curriculum for all pupils.
In the summer of 2023 we invited users to complete a survey to feedback their experience of using our Primary Arts Curriculum in their school. See the report here.
Trialling & Transitioning
If you would like a 15 day complimentary membership of AccessArt so that you can explore all our resources, please contact Andrea, our Membership Manager.
If you would like advice about introducing AccessArt to your staff, or to ask questions about how you might transition from your existing approach to our approach, please see our “Preparing To Use the AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum” session recording.
A great way to test drive our resources with staff and pupils is to try our Ten Minutes Five Times a Week exercises.
Preparing To Use AccessArt in Your School and Introducing Staff to Us
If you’re thinking about using AccessArt as your Primary Art Curriculum provider in Autumn 2025 watch this session recording where we share the ethos and practice of the AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum.
In this recording we talk through how you might introduce AccessArt to staff, how you can transition from your existing scheme or plan, test driving activities with children and teachers, and how you can prepare the materials and resources you will need to deliver our curriculum.
Organise a staff meeting to introduce staff to the curriculum.
You can find a presentation here, created with an introductory staff meeting in mind.
Ask for Help 🙂
We know it can be challenging deciding which scheme to use, or devising your own planning. We are a small team of experts and we love talking about pedagogy and practice. If you have something you would like help with, especially in regard to our Primary Art Curriculum, then please email us with your question.
You might also like to send us a quick video made on your phone, sharing pupil or teacher experiences and outcomes, and let us know what it is you are struggling with. Send all enquiries to paula@accessart.org.uk and we’ll answer as soon as we can.
