Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Justice data lab statistics: April 2024Found: 2015 16 Prisoners Education Trust - Arts/hobby materials - second request September 2015 17 Prisoners
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure every (a) primary and (b) secondary pupil in England can visit the theatre at least once in their school career.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
All state-funded schools should teach a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes pupils' cultural development. The best schools combine creative subjects with core subjects, and the department is committed to ensuring that all pupils have access to both.
Cultural education is therefore integral to a high-quality education. Alongside drama as part of the English curriculum and dance as part of the physical education curriculum, music and art and design, remain important pillars of the knowledge-rich National Curriculum.
Drama is not an individual subject within the English National Curriculum, but it is an important part of a pupil’s school experience. The main introduction of drama to the primary programmes of study details the type of drama opportunities pupils should be given and acknowledges the artistic practice of drama. Teachers will use their professional judgement as to how and when such opportunities are created.
On 10 February 2017, the department announced an update to the content for the GCSE in drama and the A level in drama and theatre studies to specify that all pupils will now have the entitlement to experience live theatre, reaffirming the government’s commitment to providing pupils with an enriching arts education.
A parent’s income should not be a barrier to a pupil participating in a school trip. Schools may not charge for school trips that take place during school hours, or which take place outside school hours but are part of the National Curriculum, part of religious education, or part of the syllabus for a public exam that the pupil is being prepared for at the school. Parents can be asked for contributions towards the cost of a trip, but schools must make clear that contributions are voluntary. The published advice, ‘Charging for School Activities’, is clear that no pupil should be excluded from an activity simply because their parents are unwilling or unable to pay. The advice can be found at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706830/Charging_for_school_activities.pdf.
Finally, pupil premium funding will rise to over £2.9 billion in the 2024/25 academic year. The increase will ensure that this targeted funding continues to help schools to support the educational outcomes of disadvantaged pupils. As set out in the menu of approaches, schools are able to use pupil premium to fund extracurricular activities, including school trips to theatres.
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: for Transport Lord PARKINSON of Whitley Bay Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Arts
Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Con - Life peer) turned out that she had been undiagnosed with a rare condition for over 7 years with more than 300 secondary - Speech Link
2: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) To make these changes stick, they should be underpinned by secondary legislation.Thirdly, in consultation - Speech Link
3: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) centre that moved beyond just health and social care and embraced housing, employment, business, the arts - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) other, sometimes even within the same hospital, let alone between institutions or between primary and secondary - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Weapons) (Amendment, Surrender and Compensation) Order 2024.Relevant document: 12th Report from the Secondary - Speech Link
2: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) Any attempt to restrict their availability and possession is a good thing.The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny - Speech Link
3: None The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee raised the point that this scheme would have to be marketed - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) This is not to argue for higher sanctions, but it is to argue for education and better youth services - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) modern swords as collectible items, and there are those who own swords for activities such as martial arts - 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
Found: prices)Outturn 2022-231Plans 2023-24Plans 2024-25 Capital DEL Health and Social Care 9.9 11.0 12.6 Education
Correspondence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Welsh Affairs Committee (Department: Wales Office)Found: minutes Post office 10 minutes 1 hour 32 minutes Primary school 8 minutes 1 hour 21 minutes Secondary
Scrutiny evidence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] CommitteeFound: Mr Lyttelton has a long-standing commitment to the arts and to music related charities including the
Scrutiny evidence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] CommitteeFound: We must never see that cause become secondary to the interests of fee-paying members.