Eastside’s November 2025 Updates

The Art of Oracy

We’re excited to introduce a new series of creative workshops for Primary and Secondary schools across London, exploring this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week theme: ‘This is My Place’.

Through drama and spoken word poetry, young people will explore community, identity, and belonging while strengthening oracy skills and meeting PSHE curriculum goals. These sessions will be available from early 2026, and are a wonderful way to support wellbeing and creativity in the classroom!

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Inclusion Through the Arts: A Celebration of Creative Practice

Last week, we had the pleasure of sharing learnings from our action research project at The British Council, exploring how creativity fosters inclusion in education through the Artsmark framework.

Delivered in Newham and supported by Arts Council England, this free CPD session brought together educators from across east London, for inspiring case studies, hands-on activities, and practical strategies for embedding inclusive creative practice in schools.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this important celebration of arts and inclusion!

Spoken Word Power

Spoken Word Power Live is back with free livestream workshops and resources for schools across the UK and beyond.

This year’s theme, ‘What We Share‘, inspires students to write and perform their own spoken word poetry – with participating classes becoming published poets in our annual anthology and getting the chance to perform on a West End stage.

Free Upcoming Events:

2nd December 2025 – Twilight Teacher CPD
28th & 29th January 2026 – KS2 & KS3 Livestream Workshops

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