We've achieved our Artsmark Gold Award

Our children and staff are celebrating after receiving a prestigious Gold Artsmark Award.

Artsmark is the only creative quality standard for schools, accredited by Arts Council England. It supports schools to develop and celebrate arts and cultural education across the whole curriculum, bringing learning to life for children and young people.

To achieve our Artsmark Award, we had to develop our arts and cultural provision to embed a broad and ambitious curriculum. This was achieved by creating an overall plan that was committed to and delivered across the whole school.

 The Artsmark assessor praised our apporach to developing arts through links beyond the school commenting that  'Part of your success, as you define it, is measured in the sheer number of wider partnerships and wider experiences you draw on to embed learning from your curriculum. There are now significant additional experiences that children have which they didn’t before your Artsmark journey.'

Dr Darren Henley OBE, Chief Executive of the Arts Council, said:

“I would like to congratulate Woodfield Primary School on their Artsmark Award. Becoming an Artsmark school demonstrates that through offering a broad, ambitious and creative curriculum, young people have the opportunity to develop character and resilience, increasing their knowledge, curiosity and skills that will remain with

them through to adult life.”