Creative Outreach for Schools
Creative Makers CIC offers a flexible, specialist creative outreach service for schools, designed around the individual needs, interests and educational goals of each child or young person. We work with pupils from Key Stage 2 through to Key Stage 5, including young people with SEND, EHCPs, SEMH or EBSA, pupils at risk of disengagement, and those who simply need additional specialist support within a holistic creative focus.
Our approach is child-centred and flexible. Rather than asking a young person to fit into a predetermined programme, we use creativity (Arts and Music) as a way to build relationships, confidence, wellbeing, engagement and achievement.
Creative Practitioners – We Come to Your School
Schools can book a Creative Makers practitioner to work on-site for a full day, with the day structured around the needs of your pupils and timetable.
A practitioner might work intensively one-to-one with one young person for the whole day, provide longer individual mentoring sessions, or work across several lessons with different individuals or small groups. This means schools can use a single outreach day to support several pupils, or provide more intensive provision for a young person with higher levels of need.
Sessions can draw from fine art, drawing and painting, textiles and fashion, photography, digital media, graphics, animation, creative music, music technology and DJing, allowing us to build provision around what genuinely engages the young person.
The purpose of the sessions can also be very different for each pupil. For some, creative mentoring provides a holistic route back into learning – a safe space to build confidence, communicate, regulate, develop relationships and experience success. For others, sessions can provide structured educational support linked to an EHCP or individual learning outcomes.
We can also provide specialist academic support for pupils studying GCSE or A-Level Art, Photography, Textiles, Graphics and related creative subjects. Much like additional tuition in Maths or English, our practitioners can work alongside the school's curriculum to support coursework, practical skills, experimentation, portfolio development, organisation and sustained progress towards the highest grade the individual pupil can achieve.
Off-Site Creative Alternative Provision
Schools can also refer pupils to spend a full day away from the school environment at one of our two specialist Creative Makers settings. This can form part of a pupil's alternative timetable, EHCP provision, reintegration plan or wider package of support.
The Quarry – Witham Friary Outdoor Creative Arts
...............offers an immersive outdoor provision within a rewilded former clay quarry near Frome. Young people learn through creativity, nature and practical experience, with opportunities including art and making, woodland craft, DIY and woodwork, cooking, conservation, foraging and outdoor learning. It is particularly suited to young people who find traditional classroom environments difficult and benefit from space, movement, practical activity and learning by doing.
The Creative Studio – Nunney, Somerset
................provides a calmer, more familiar classroom-style environment for pupils who benefit from small-group creative learning but are better suited to an indoor setting. Sessions can focus on art, textiles, photography, digital media and other creative disciplines, with activities personalised around the pupil's interests, needs and educational goals.
Across both settings, our aim is not simply to occupy a young person for a day. We use high-quality creative education as a meaningful route into engagement, confidence, independence and learning, giving pupils opportunities to discover what they are capable of and helping them find their voice through creativity.
Every package can be tailored to the individual child and the commissioning school. Schools are welcome to contact us for an informal conversation about a pupil before making a referral, and we can recommend whether school-based outreach, off-site provision, or a combination of the two would be most appropriate.