Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) , I have to mention dealing with the impacts of austerity, which saw the most deprived one-fifth of secondary - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) Art and arts-based approaches were integrated throughout a broad-based education that would equip us - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) On that point, I must as ever declare my interest as a secondary school teacher in a state school in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hollins (XB - Life peer) She started to struggle with her mental health when she started secondary school. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) Secondary ticketing websites inflate prices and pocket the profits, which makes cultural and sporting - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Crewe and Nantwich) Friend meet me to discuss Arts Council funding? - Speech Link
3: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) We channel a very large amount of money to Arts Council England. - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) religious-ethos education of their choice. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) In order to maintain vibrancy in the arts, it is critical that the next generation of diverse artists - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) It has 11 Saturday music and performing arts centres and three contemporary centres at venues across - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) on a survey of schools from last March, we understand that around 59% of primary schools and 43% of secondary - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) We have also lifted the national minimum school clothing grant to £120 and £150 for primary and secondary - Speech Link
2: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) went to Moray as a probationer teacher.The waiver payment is set at £6,000 for primary and £8,000 for secondary - Speech Link
3: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) of that case, I offer my condolences to the families involved.Learning around substance abuse from secondary - Speech Link
4: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) In fact, I am going to Lasswade high school later this evening for its expressive arts show. - Speech Link
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of (a) all children, (b) children educated in state schools and (c) children educated in private schools who have attended a live theatre performance by the end of (i) primary and (ii) secondary education.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The Department does not collect data on the number or proportion of children who have attended live theatre by the end of primary and secondary education.
Arts subjects, including drama, are an important part of a pupil’s school experience, with drama forming part of the National Curriculum for English.
As set out in the programmes of study for Key Stages 1 to 3, pupils should gain knowledge, skills and understanding of the artistic practice of drama and should be able to adopt, create and sustain a range of roles. They should also have opportunities to improvise, devise and script drama for one another and a range of audiences, as well as to rehearse, refine, share and respond thoughtfully to drama and theatre performances. Teachers will use their professional judgement as to how and when such opportunities are created.
In addition, all pupils taking GCSE drama or an A level in drama and theatre studies are entitled to experience live theatre. This entitlement reaffirms the Government’s commitment to providing pupils with an enriching arts education. Pupils should not be limited to watching a DVD or a peer performance; they should have the opportunity to sit in the audience and experience a live performance.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) Does not the continuing existence of EBacc and its constraining effects on the secondary curriculum for - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) with knowledge-based things, does not include enough digital or computing, and in a lot of schools the arts - Speech Link
3: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) This surely reinforces the finding of the Education Committee that the balance of 11 to 16 education - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) in schools to six days across a child’s secondary career. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Some 80% of secondary schools are not required to follow the national curriculum, which has led schools - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Rebuck (Lab - Life peer) , all secondary schools have a cultural co-ordinator and art history is compulsory up to 16 years of - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) However, the triumvirate of crisis areas—arts funding, arts education and Brexit—is now causing firefighting - Speech Link
3: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) education at primary, secondary and tertiary level and on physical access to experience the arts in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell (Lab - Life peer) The UK has some 275 arts colleges and arts courses at further education institutions. - Speech Link
Nov. 10 2008
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Feb. 28 2012
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Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase pupil access to (a) sports and (b) arts opportunities out of school.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Sport and physical activity are incredibly important for our physical and mental health and this government is committed to ensuring every child, no matter their background or ability, should be able to play sport and be active.
That is why in ‘Get Active: A strategy for the future of sport and physical activity’ we introduce an ambition that all children should meet the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines on physical activity, with a target of getting 1 million more active children by 2030.
Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport, setting them up for a lifetime of physical activity. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport, with guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and School Games Organiser network.
Outside of the school day, the £57 million Opening School Facilities programme will support the most inactive young people to access facilities that will enable them to play sport and take physical exercise. By opening school sport facilities, including swimming pools, disparities in access to opportunities seen between socio-economic groups will begin to be tackled through the programme.
Over the school holidays, the Government offers £200 million of support per year to the Holiday Activities and Food programme, which provides disadvantaged children in England with enriching activities (including physical and creative activities) and healthy meals. Last summer, the programme reached over 685,000 children and young people in England, including over 475,000 children in receipt of free school meals.
We are also investing over £300 million in grassroots football and multi-sport facilities across the UK by 2025 which will further support youth participation in sport.
The Government is additionally providing significant arts and cultural opportunities for young people both in and out of school.
This includes our creative careers promise, which is backed by £115m a year to increase young people’s access to cultural and music education. The upcoming Cultural Education Plan will support all children and young people to access a broad range of high-quality cultural and creative activities and experiences inside and outside of school. Our Enrichment Partnerships Pilot aims to improve the availability and quality of enrichment activities in up to 200 secondary schools within Education Investment Areas. In addition, 79% of the organisations in Arts Council England’s 2023-26 Investment Programme portfolio are delivering activity specifically for children and young people of all ages, wherever they live.
Separately, the Government funds a diverse portfolio of music and arts education programmes that are designed to improve participation in the arts for children. The National Saturday Club, for example, gives 13 to 16-year-olds across the country the opportunity to study the subjects they love for free, including arts and creative subjects, on a Saturday at their local university, college or cultural institution. Government and Arts Council England also co-fund 15 National Youth Music Organisations offering large-scale, inclusive performances, high-quality music programmes, residencies, summer schools and workshops, to help develop young people’s skills, experience, and knowledge of music, supporting them to excel as young creatives outside of school.
The National Plan for Music Education includes £25m funding for musical instruments and equipment for schools, and the Music Progression Fund supports disadvantaged pupils with music tuition. Furthermore, we have created four new Music Hub Centres of Excellence to improve inclusion and create pathways to industry for talented young people from all backgrounds.