Expressive arts

Principles and practice

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The inspiration and power of the arts play a vital role in enabling our children and young people to enhance their creative talent and develop their artistic skills.

The principles and practice document is essential reading for teachers as they start working with the experiences and outcomes for expressive arts.

Experiences and outcomes

All curriculum areas contribute to the totality of the experiences that make up the new curriculum. You can download the experiences and outcomes for expressive arts.

National Qualifications

Information on the expressive arts National Qualifications and links to Art and Design, Dance, Drama, and Music on the National Qualifications website.

Support materials

Responsibility of all

All staff have a responsibility to develop, reinforce and extend learning in the following areas.

Broad features of assessment

This information about assessment is extracted from the principles and practice documents for each curriculum area.

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