Access All Arts Week
From Sky Arts
Resource type: Event
Price band: Free
Key stage: KS1, KS2
Region(s): All of UK
Access All Arts Week is a nationwide arts week for primary schools. Access All Arts Week 2025 takes place from 16th – 20th June.
Working with leading arts organisations and a host of artists, Access All Arts Week provides classroom-ready resources to support five different areas of artistic expression:
Each module can be taught as a stand-alone unit or can be joined together to form a longer programme. Resources for 2025 include:
- Video masterclasses from artists and celebrities.
- Ready-to-teach lesson plans and activity worksheets.
- Topic maps and an Arts Week planner to help with planning.
- Ongoing support from a team of ambassadors.
Cost: Free with registration.
About Sky Arts: Sky Arts is a free-to-air television channel dedicated to bringing art to more people across the UK. It works in partnership with cultural organisations to champion creative talent and showcase the best in music, theatre, dance, literature, opera and the visual arts.
Further resources:
- The Society for Storytelling has a directory of storytellers that includes practitioners who provide in-school events.
- The Story Seekers is a free, fully-resourced oracy and creative literacy project from the National and Unicorn Theatres for primary-aged pupils based around finding, telling and sharing stories from around the globe.
- The Primary Shakespeare Company offers free online, cross-curricular programmes of learning for six of Shakespeare’s plays – The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar and Hamlet (new for 2025).
- For schools interested in running an in-school poetry workshop, The Poetry Society and Apples and Snakes offer a service matching poets to their requirements.
- Explore the work of the best contemporary poets for children with the annual CLiPPA Shadowing Scheme.
- Poetry By Heart is an annual poetry speaking competition that runs from October to the end of March. It is open to pupils in KS2-KS5 in schools and colleges in England.
- Explore more resources to support the teaching of poetry.
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