We received the Artsmark Silver Award!

We are very excited to have been awarded the Artsmark Silver Award by the Arts Council England, the national development agency for creativity and culture.

Arts Council England clearly recognised the importance that the arts have in our school and community. Our arts provision has grown from strength to strength, and we are very proud of that. For example, within the last 12 months we have:

• unveiled a renovated arts studio, thanks to a generous donation by the Goldsmith Centre
• we were given professional easels by the National Gallery, and
• our former pupil's work was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts' Young Artist Summer Show 2025.

The Art Council's assessors have been impressed by the way arts at our school are truly inclusive, and how they are embedded and fully part of the curriculum.

Their feedback said: "Congratulations to everyone at Halley House School on a very successful Artsmark journey. [...] You have worked hard to ensure that the arts are central to your school’s culture and that they are used to remove barriers, increase opportunity and expose your young people to the diversity of arts and society in a supportive and exciting way."

The Goldsmith Centre's impact report 2024-2025

"You [...] have thought purposefully about the approaches you can take to positively impact other areas of the curriculum using the arts as a driver, such as through dance in Physical Education, building cultural capital and greater understanding of equality and diversity through the use of culturally diverse contextual sources and direct exposure to engaging experiences such as the black cultural archive, and this has built in your young people a positive view of society through the arts."

Arts educator Kate Hodgson has been instrumental in driving forward all these initiatives, and we warmly thank her for her endless enthusiasm and passion.

The Goldsmith Centre's impact report 2024-2025

Thank you for your commitment to embedding arts culture and creativity across your whole school.

Arts Council England