Supporting wellbeing through the arts

Case Study

Published on: September 12, 2019

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With increasing pressures to achieve academic success through rigorous examination processes, I will look at the balance that students can achieve through engaging in an arts-based course, enrichment activity or project. This reflection considers the rationale for engaging students through creative opportunities and an enrichment programme, in conjunction with a broad curriculum offer. Creative projects can enable students to communicate a range of emotions, to explore a range of disciplines and to collaborate with each other. The choral project led by Gareth Malone to support grieving students at the Kensington Aldridge Academy, the school sitting underneath the Grenfell Tower and impacted by the loss of five students, was watched by many in the BBC series The Choir (2019). We witnessed the significant impact on young people of expressing their emotions, fears and hope for the future through song, rap and composition. The power of this project was in the collaboration of students w

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