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Art and Design Workshops for Schools

Creative arts and performing arts

Looking for art workshops that bring creativity directly into your UK school for inspiring hands-on sessions?

Art workshops delivered in-school feature drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and mixed media projects, encouraging self-expression, technique development, and links to history or science topics while giving every child a chance to shine artistically.

The art themed workshops on this page are designed to allow your children to explore their creativity and self expression. These workshops often cover a wide range of topics including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, collage, graffiti, theatre, drama, dance, beatboxing, DJing and music, allowing children to explore different forms of artistic expression.

These workshops offer plenty of opportunity to get their hands messy with different media, or get energetic with movement. Topics may also include exploring famous artists and artistic movements, helping your budding artists to further their understanding of art history.

These hands on art workshops include activities that not only encourage them to work on their artistic flair, but also encourage them to think critically, to problem solve and to tell stories with their work. The workshop companies who run these courses will help make are fun, engaging and meaningful.

The value of these workshops to children extends beyond developing technical skills, they also help with confidence and self expression, allow them to think imaginatively and to express themselves confidently.

Find a workshop to visit your school to learn about following Art topics: Animation, Bookbinding, Comics, Craft, Design, Drawing, History of Art, Multimedia, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Urban Arts, and more.

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Urban Arts - Graffiti - Fashion - Beatboxing - Breakdancing - DJ
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Our workshops offer a dynamic and engaging way to meet key objectives within the Performing Arts curriculum. Sessions such as beatboxing, rap & lyric writing, and breakdancing encourage students to...
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Arts, Crafts & Planet Friendly Projects
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We support teachers in delivering the art curriculum through exciting, hands-on workshops including recycling art projects, SFX makeup, graffiti, and more. Our creative sessions align with curriculum goals, helping students build skills, express themselves, and think sustainably.
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Flamenco & Spanish Dance
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Stone Age Workshops
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor.
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Game Over
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Romans
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All of our workshops are designed to support children's learning in Drama and Performing Arts. Through carefully planned activities and exercises, children expressively use their face, body and to...
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Roman Workshop
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor. Within our Roman Workshop the...
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Ancient Maya
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to ensure your chosen topic is as accessible and engaging as possible for your pupils.
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Rainy Rainforest
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Anglo Saxons
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Victorians
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All of our workshops are designed to support children's learning in Drama and Performing Arts. Through carefully planned activities and exercises, an Altru workshop allows children to expressively use their face, body and voice to develop their confidence, creativity and imagination!
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Anti-Bullying
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Our carefully planned drama workshops are an engaging way for pupils to explore PSHE topics. We provide crucial information and discussion based drama stimuli which encourages children to use their own voice and mind.
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Rainforests - Above and beyond the Canopy
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor.
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Charles Darwin
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Drama days and workshops are a great way for children to make memories and retain topic information for years to come! Drama allows children to explore scientific discoveries and theories through the use of creative roleplay, enabling a clear understanding of how things are discovered.
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Saxon Sovereignty - A kingdom for a Nation
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Art is the expression of what the world means to us as individuals, communities and cultures. It is our story and an echo of our souls which resonates for ever onwards throughout history. So within...
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Earthquakes & Volcanoes
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All our workshops use drama, dance and/or movement to stimulate learning and capture children's imaginations. Our team of performing arts professionals have a range of activities up their sleeve to...
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Toys from the Past
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All of our activities are designed to support children's learning in Drama and Performing Arts. Through carefully planned activities and exercises, children use their bodies and voices expressively, develop their imaginations and learn new theatrical vocabulary.
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Maya Workshops
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Our workshops include tailored, fully interactive, drama games, role play, teamwork exercises, songs, movement and more, led by a professional costumed actor.
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Maths Workshops
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Art & Sculpture where pupils make a sculpture inspired by a detail of an abstract painting. Olympic Sculptures challenges pupils to make an athlete in the pose of an Olympic event. We developed a...
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The Shang Dynasty
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Altru Drama Days: We use a wide range of drama techniques to engage all children in the topic and ensure our sessions are completely inclusive so that all children can learn, develop and grow....
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Art Day Trips

Theatre Workout is a unique company, spanning the education, theatre, and travel industries, creating unique opportunities for schools to engage with creativity and culture first-hand. Their energy, passion, and expertise has won them many accolades, and exclusive partnerships with major shows,...

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Award-Winning Theatre Trips
Art Residential

Book your award-winning theatre trip with TheatreWorkout and get the whole package: travel, workshops, tickets, tours and more!

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International Dance Day, The King's 👑 Coronation and more!
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International Dance Day, The King's Coronation, School Sports Week and much more coming up with Dance Days

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DanceDaysLondon provide both topic and off-topic-based dance workshops for Schools and are growing across The UK!

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Why the performing arts play such a key role in in-school workshops for primary schools.

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