Tag: creative arts
Thinking creatively about accessibility
Kirsty Purnell enthuses about inclusive dance sessions for SEN schools.
Sessions often start with a way of greeting everyone in the room, often using a...
It’s instrumental
If music was the thread which flowed through education, we'd raise our overall cognitive capacity, writes Rachael Diop.
Teachers are often working with groups who...
Issue 139 ● November December 2025
In this issue: dance, dyslexia's ripple effect, teacher assumptions, embedding life skills, child-parent abuse, PANS and PANDAS, micro interventions, autistic cognition, polytropism bias, empathy...
Any body can dance
Jen Blackwell and Donna Wheeldon explain the power of inclusive co-production in the creative arts.
All our sessions are co-produced with professional Dance Artists working...
A brush with creativity
Helena Aikin reveals how a challenging art project helped students with cerebral palsy to examine and express their identity
I was invited to teach an...
Creative tech for all
Nick Birch explains how intuitive creative technology can help SEN students develop lifelong skills.
The beauty of creative subjects is that they are inclusive in...
Showing off
Performance allows us to feel confident, powerful, brave and independent, says Charlotte Bell.
The Arts provide an amazing platform for people with learning disabilities, offering...
Musical exploration
Rima Jakubauskas and Laura Pearce introduce us to music therapy.
Music therapy has been a profession in the UK since the 1960s, and it's related...
SEN127 : November/December 2023
Read SEN Magazine SEN127 : Nov/Dec here
It's been a good year for conferences, exhibitions and all types of CPD to support greater awareness of...
Beating the drum for inclusion
Jody Ashfield on the role of music in accessibility.
Music is a universal language that transcends cultures and barriers, bringing people together with pure sound....
