A joint Lewisham Education Arts Network /Lewisham Arts Schools Hub CPD event for Lewisham based teachers, arts organisations and Lewisham focused arts freelancers working in arts education.
Date: 07/10/2026
Time: 1.30pm - 5.30pm
Location: The Albany, Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG
Following the last year’s success, we are bringing back LCEP Arts in Lewisham Schools Conference. It is valuable opportunity for arts organisations, teachers, and freelancers to gather for sharing, networking, and planning.
Date: Wednesday 7th October 2026
Time: 1.30pm-5pm
Venue: the Albany, Deptford
Tickets:
@ £15 per teacher, book HERE
@ £25 Lewisham based arts organisations (admits 2), book HERE
@ £30 non Lewisham based arts organisations (admits 2), book HERE
The conference will include a key note presentation from Anthony Doudle, Head of Lewisham Learning on ‘Enrichment: challenge & opportunities In the new curriculum and Ofsted expectations’, with a welcome from Cllr Fergus Navaratnam-Blair, Arts, Heritage & History Champion, and Youth Champion. We will also be joined by Cllr Rotimi Skyers, Cabinet Member for Children, SEND, Youth Empowerment and Culture.
Schedule
1.15-1.45 Registration and refreshments
1.45-2.00 Welcome, the LCEP and the Albany
2.00-2.15 Anthony Doudle keynote
2.15-3.10 Carousel of mini presentations by arts organisation
Performance by young people from Addey & Stanhope School, in partnership with Resonance Poetry
3.10-3.20 Break
3.20-4.15 Case studies and best practice discussion in Primary & Secondary break out groups
4.20-4.50 Subject specialist networking & refreshments
4.50-5.15 General networking and viewing of arts organisations ‘stalls’
Networking and refreshments
5.30 Event ends
Case Study Presentations include:
- Inspiring creativity through partnership: Myatt Garden Primary School
Myatt Garden Primary school is committed to putting creativity at the heart of their curriculum, recognized early on in 2004 through the award of Artsmark Gold Art & Design skills are built up from Year 1 to 6 through termly topics. This is supported by regular partnership projects with smaller local organisations such as APT Galleries and larger nationals such as the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. Arts Lead Rhiannon Morkus will talk about how these partnership projects are developed and the benefits and challenges they bring
- Supporting the Curriculum through Dance: Torridon Primary
Dance Specialist Teacher talks about how she has worked over 5 years to embed dance throughout the curriculum at Torridon Primary and some of the impacts this has had. She describes how partnerships with Irie Dance & Trinity Laban have contributed this. She will look at how non specialist dance teaching migh be supported through a Primary Dance network.
- Exploring Oracy: Edmund Waller Primary School, Anne Rennie Head Teacher, Rosie Plunkett, Oracy Lead
The recent Curriculum Review identified oracy as a foundational area of learning, recommending the introduction of a national oracy framework. Many oracy teaching & learning strategies will be familiar to drama and participative arts practitioners.
Find out more about how oracy is delivered in the classroom and the impacts it can have. Edmund Waller is one of number of Lewisham schools that are part of the pilot project ‘Talk Matters’. This conference is an opportunity to consider how the arts can support oracy in schools going forward
- Exploring art, politics and identity: Addey & Stanhope School
Year 9 students perform some of the poetry created as part of this collaborative project with Resonance Poetry and Goldsmiths CCA, Mark Shipp, Curriculum Leader of English Language and Literature at Addey & Stanhope will discuss some of the project impacts.
‘This workshop really allowed me to open up with writing and go out of my comfort zone. I was not trying out new things and I didn’t really like poetry before this workshop’. Year 9 Student
Participating organisations/freelance art educators:
Organisations: The Albany, Blackheath Halls, Bow Arts, Creekside Discovery Centre, Deptford Ragged School Archive, Elizabeth Samuels School for Performing Arts, Goldsmiths University of London, Goldsmiths CCA, Horniman Museum, IRIE! Dance Theatre, Lewisham Music, Lewisham Youth Theatre, London Writers Centre, Make Mee Studio, Midi Music, Sister Midnight, Montage Theatre Arts, Peoplescape Theatre, Resonance Poetry, Royal Museums Greenwich, Trinity Laban
Freelancers: Emily Fellah, Tiger’s Eye Books, Usva Inei
For queries and for any access support please contact Stephanie Chung at finance@leanarts.org.uk
