All The School’s A Stage was a two year project led by London South Teaching School in partnership with The Globe Theatre in 2017-2019 and funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. I designed, facilitated and undertook the impact analysis for the project.  The project sought to find a way to make arts projects in schools sustainable and to support teachers to embed learning from a short-term project into whole-school practice. It explored how artist practitioners could support teachers to embed drama techniques into the curriculum, making a long-term sustainable difference to teaching and learning in seven participating inner city primary schools with a focus on pupils from deprived backgrounds.  

The Globe had run this successful Shakespearean storytelling project for several years with teachers and pupils, but had never before explored strategies to embed these pedagogies across a whole school. Phase two was therefore an experimental phase, in which four trained Lead Teachers in each of the seven schools would disseminate their learning to their school colleagues, and effect whole school policy and practice change.