Quotations to use across site
The UK video game industry is worth £5.89 billion in 2022. Statistic 2022
Our arts and culture are the soul of our nation. They make our country great and are the lynchpin of our world-beating and fast-growing creative industries. Oliver Dowden 2020
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they’re valued. Ken Robinson
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism. Marjane Satrapi
Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else. Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more. Loris Malaguzzi
All of the below are from The Case for Cultural Learning: Key Research Findings from 2017.
Participation in structured arts activities can increase cognitive abilities by 17%.
Learning through arts and culture can improve attainment in Maths and English.
Learning through arts and culture develops skills and behaviour that lead children to do better in school.
Students from low-income families who take part in arts activities at school are three times more likely to get a degree.
Employability of students who study arts subjects is higher and they are more likely to stay in employment.
Students from low-income families who engage in the arts at school are twice as likely to volunteer.
Students from low-income families who engage in the arts at school are 20% more likely to vote as young adults.
Young offenders who take part in arts activities are 18% less likely to re-offend.
Children who take part in arts activities in the home during their early years are ahead in reading and Maths at age nine.
People who take part in the arts are 38% more likely to report good health.
