Why Artsmark?
The Artsmark Award is the only creative quality standard for schools and education settings, accredited by Arts Council England. It supports the health and wellbeing of pupils with arts, culture and creativity, ensuring every young person can be creative and access a diverse, high-quality cultural education.
Who is Artsmark for?
Artsmark with Rhythm Stick Drumming is open to all educational settings from KS1 to sixth form colleges, including pupil referral units and SEND.
Rhythm Stick Drumming for your Artsmark award
We're an Artmark partner, which means we deliver high quality arts education to help schools meet the Artsmark Criteria and seven Quality Principles. We believe that authentic arts projects really make a difference to each child’s wellbeing and achievement. Our hands-on sessions boost pride and self-esteem through the creative process and musical performance and participants leave our sessions with a real sense of artistic accomplishment. We visit educational settings to provide group percussion workshops for children or staff and within an hour the class are performing a beautiful groove together.
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how Rhythm Stick Drumming can help you on your
Artsmark journey:
Our Artsmark Offer - Choose your workshop
Become a Samba Band
Can you imagine becoming a Samba band in an hour? We can! We bring the Samba instruments and you are the band. Group size: 35-70. Curriculum link idea: Geography - discover the socio-historical roots of Carnival music in South American and African culture. Junk Percussion
Learn how to make a band out of household items and junk. Group size: 35 or more if you make your instruments. Curriculum link idea: Science - Learn about recycling by forming a junk percussion band. Body Percussion
No instruments? No problem! High energy workshops using Stomp-style body percussion. Group size: the sky's the limit! Curriculum link idea: PSHE - boost your students' self esteem with an “I Can!” day, followed with classroom discussion about the importance of mental wellbeing Boomwhackers
These colourful tubes are pitched to the notes on a keyboard. We love using them for rhythm games and composition work and you can also play recognisable tunes with them. Curriculum link idea: Music - learn to play rhythms together within half an hour, then compose your own song. CPD sessions for Staff
Improve staff wellbeing with these teambuilding sessions which leave you with ideas to implement in the class room and you don’t even need any instruments. Our sessions are adapted to suit all children, KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, SEND and PRU. |
Price options
One off introduction session
One off plus after school staff CPD
Four week in-depth sessions - write and perform your own song
- Good for Artsmark Criteria: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Cultural Collaborations, Children and Young People; Values and Ethos;
- What happens: Choose any of the above workshop options and schedule several workshops across a whole or half day with recommend timings of: KS1: 30-45 minutes, KS2: 45-60 minutes, KS3+: 60-90 minutes
- Cost: £250 full day or £170 half day plus transport allowance (based on up to 35 participants per session)
One off plus after school staff CPD
- Good for Artsmark Criteria: Leadership; Continuing Professional Development; Cultural Collaborations
- What happens: As above but with 1.5 hour after school CDP session with staff exploring how to incorporate group percussion and music making into the curriculum.
- Cost: £350 full day or £270 half day plus transport allowance (based on up to 35 participants per session)
Four week in-depth sessions - write and perform your own song
- Good for Artsmark Criteria: Cultural Collaborations Range of Offer; Curriculum Design and Delivery;
- What happens: Four half day sessions, working with two classes separately or four whole day sessions with four classes separately. Composing and rehearsing their own song then coming together for a big performance.
- Cost: £680 for four half days or £1000 for four whole days plus transport allowance (based on up to 35 participants per session). This includes arrangement of the song based entirely on your childrens’ ideas.
See how we have integrated the seven Artsmark Quality Principles into our offer (download)

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