Art and Design

Enhancing your knowledge

A short video from Access Art

Teaching art and design as a non-specialist might seem challenging. This video helps to build confidence.

A short video from Access Art

This video looks at how pupils experience art and design education differently from other subject areas, and why this is important for chiildren's learning and sense of wellbeing.

A short video from Ofsted

Ofsted subject lead, Adam Vincent, explains the importance of art and design education

OBU Cultural Placement Partners

This website hub contains links to OBU cultural partners. These cultural venues in and around Oxfordshire host 2-day Cultural Placements, which all BA trainees will benefit from in their third year of study.

Evidence base

Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom

This book examines the conditions that need to be in place for creativity to be nurtured in and out of the classroom. Questions at the end of each chapter prompt reflective practice. The book includes a section on relevant theory.

Researching the Arts in Primary Schools

The RAPS Report (2025)

'Arts-rich primary schools are highly diverse. There is no one way to be arts-rich. However, there are patterns across the schools that can inform other schools and the school system more generally.....

Commitment to the expressive arts does not come at the expense of other subject learning. The majority of the arts-rich schools we studied did at least as well as, if not better, than equivalent schools and schools in their local authority. Children’s success across the full range of subjects was recognised in their inspection ratings.'

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