Outdoor Learning Environments for all ages - Using the outdoor environment to engage children in their own learning and to promote curiosity and exploration. Creating environments, building dens, responding to the environment visually, physically and stimulating purposeful writing. Firepit and Damper making and outdoor cooking.

Literacy and Creative Writing Programmes - Creative approaches to motor skill development and developmental movement patterns across all key stages - to support improvements in reading and writing. Development of original narratives from abstract starting points using collections of objects (Bags of personality), responses to music or abstract images to stimulate the creation of character and storyline. Exploration of sequencing, understanding of cause and effect whilst encouraging children to dare to be different. Exploration of language including motivational strategies e.g. ministry of marvellous words.

Activities engender enthusiasm, curiosity, and reading and writing as a fun and physical experience.

Speaking and Listening Programmes - Mantle of the Expert, Role-play, Forum Theatre, Mask work, Physical Theatre.

Raising pupil voice, ambassador programmes of excellence. “Good to be me”.

Supports SEALS programmes/Emotional Literacy/Every Child Matters.

Visual Arts - Textiles, sculpture, creation of environments, kite making and flying. Festivals, celebrations and rituals are a speciality e.g. leavers ceremonies/rites of passage/whole school and community celebrations

(Cookson Parade, Sense of Place Programmes, Kite festivals and leavers ceremonies at Marine Park School . Art trail in South Tyneside )

Visual Learning - Developing the school environment and display using an Arts Ambassadors model. Facilitating the children taking ownership of their learning environment creating displays, which reflect the things that excite and stimulate them. Evidencing children's learning in a meaningful ways.