Free Learning Resources

Find free teaching resources to bring the arts into your class

  • A lady dressed in bright green pointing to a display on a wall as two young children look at her.

    Art Fund Teacher Needs Research 2021-22

    For teachers
    Published by Art Fund

    A research study working with teachers to learn about what support they need to use museums and galleries as resources in their teaching.

  • Nutcracker Resource hub

    Early Years, KS1, KS2 and SEND

    Published by English National Ballet

    Step into the magical world of Nutcracker! Enjoy printable games, the magical soundtrack of Nutcracker and tutu craft activities, all available for free.

    We also have a suite of symbol resources, in partnership with Widgit, to make ballet more accessible to children with learning difficulties and disabilities.

  • My First Ballet: Swan Lake Resource hub

    Early Years, KS1, KS2 and SEND

    Publish by English National Ballet

    Visit our My First Ballet: Swan Lake resource hub, for read alongs, dance tutorials, tutu craft pages, clips from the ballet and so much more, all available to access for free.

    We also have a suite of symbol resources, in partnership with Widgit, to make ballet more accessible to children with learning difficulties and disabilities.

  • Schools Hub

    For teachers

    Published by National Portrait Gallery

    Visit Schools hub, the National Portrait Gallery's ever-growing online hub, designed to support Art & Design and History learning. Schools hub features hundreds of resources to help you cut down on planning, from simple how-to videos and tutorials with artists, to step-by-step portrait analysis guides, and interviews with leading experts.

  • Wallace & Gromit Teacher Resource Pack

    Key Stage 1 & 2

    Published by The Cartoon Museum and Aardman

    Unique Teacher Resource Packs featuring six fur curriculum-linked activities featuring everyone’s favourite animated duo, Wallace & Gromit!

  • A graphic featuring an assortment of comic speech bubbles arranged in a grid with brightly coloured backgrounds.

    Draw Cartoons & Comics

    Key Stage 1-3
    Published by The Cartoon Museum

    Free drawing resources to inspire children to explore their creativity through comics. For use at home and in the classroom.

  • Art material arranged on a table.

    Free Art Resources from the RA

    All ages
    Published by the Royal Academy of Arts

    Cross-curricular resources to teach your students about the climate, citizenship, emotions, and more through art.

  • Children on a stage confidently holding up circular signs that read 'I'm a girl, hear me roar' and 'show racism the red card'.

    Fuel Engage: Theatre Resources

    For teachers
    Published by Fuel Theatre

    Fuel Engage is a free, online learning platform for teachers and anyone interested in creative learning. It includes multiple free learning resources, lesson plans, and digital theatre content for use in the classroom and beyond.

  • Children in a room with their hands raised. One student has their finger on their lips.

    Music Resources for KS2 & KS3 Classes

    Key Stage 2 & 3
    Published by Royal Albert Hall

    Download resources to use with KS2 or KS3 classes which explore some of the most famous pieces of music from the Western Classical music cannon, designed to meet your curriculum aims for understanding, listening and composing.

  • A dramatic photograph of a group of school students looking up at the ceiling in Westminster Abbey.

    Free Resources from Westminster Abbey

    All ages
    Published by Westminster Abbey

    A growing catalogue of free, downloadable teaching resources covering a variety of subject areas across multiple key stages, bringing Westminster Abbey to your classroom.

  • Children looking at a painting with an adult

    Activities for all ages

    All ages
    Published by Two Temple Place

    Free activities and resources for schools, community groups and families.

  • A large group of young school children smiling at the camera.

    Free Arts Resources for Early Years

    Early Years & Key Stage 1
    Published by Creative Futures

    Explore a range of free resources and research reports supporting arts education for Early Years and Key Stage 1 students. You can also find valuable resources about teaching music to deaf children.

  • An adult showing two smiling children medical diagrams and implements.

    Science Activities for Children

    Key Stage 1
    Published by Anaesthesia Heritage Centre

    The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre tells the remarkable story of anaesthesia since is first public demonstration in 1846. Their free resources include fun and easy science activities for small anaesthetists to be, suitable for science and history curricula.

  • A textured work of abstract art with painterly mark-making on collaged canvas, resembling clouds and foliage.

    Art and Art History Learning Resources

    All ages
    Published by The Courtauld

    Free learning resources and activities for all ages from The Courtauld using a combination of art history and practical art-based approaches to uncover the intentions and processes behind works of art. These resources can be used by teachers, young people and anyone interested in finding out more about the artists and artworks in The Courtauld’s collection.

  • A low-lit stage with a set comprising a table. garden chairs

    How to market a theatre show

    Teachers and group leaders
    Published by The Cockpit

    The Cockpit’s guide to bringing a show to their theatre. The tips in this page may be useful advice for anyone lookng to market a show in London.

  • Photo of Serpentine South - a brick building with large windows and a small cupola, surrounded by green trees and grass, under a partly cloudy sky

    The Perfect School? A Classroom Game

    Year 5 & 6
    Published by The Serpentine

    The Perfect School? is a resource and classroom game which invites children and teachers to explore the transition from primary to secondary school and rethink how schools can be.

  • A group of students watching a digital display featuring a person's face inside a dimly lit room with brick walls.

    Here Is The Place: Resource for Teachers

    Year 5 & 6
    Published by The Serpentine

    The resource aims to support children to develop the tools to work together to form democratic communities. It invites children to think about difference, acceptance, trust and empathy through play.

  • A group of students sat on the floor, facing a teacher in front of a blackboard

    Two Temple Place's Teacher Resource Packs

    All ages
    Published by Two Temple Place

    Two Temple Place’s Teacher Resource Packs are produced alongside each exhibition, but also function as stand-alone resources. The packs include a variety of schemes and resources to support teaching in subjects such as; Art & Design, Maths, PHSCE, Music, English, Science and History.

  • An children's orchestra performing

    Music Curriculum Guidance for Schools

    Teachers and school administrators
    Published by Tri-borough Music Hub

    Useful documents to help Headteachers, Senior Leadership Teams, Governors, and Music Leaders to articulate their plan for delivering high-quality music education and supporting pupils to progress.

  • A presented with a headset demonstrating a science experiment in front of a gallery of awe-struck children

    Science Learning Resources

    All ages
    Published by The Science Museum

    Free science-learning resources for all ages.

  • A group of smiling young people holding up works of art in front of a brightly-lit building

    Culture in Westminster: City Lions Year in Review 2022-23

    For teachers & cultural organisations
    Published by City Lions

    A review of how City Lions and its partners, enriched young people’s lives in Westminster in 2022-23.

  • My Music Hub

    Calling all teachers, parents, carers, learners and young people! We’ve put together our favourite live streamed concerts, music making activities and resources designed for schools, families and young people. We hope you have fun making your own music!

  • Cracks in the Curriculum: What is it to be Oneself?

    Key Stage 3-5+

    Published by Serpentine Galleries

    This free resource supports teachers working with young people to consider the impact gender, race, class, religion, disability, culture, and politics has on our sense of self. What is it to be Oneself? delves into Afrofuturism and digital culture, using the process of collage to normalise fluid exploratory approaches to the formation, deconstruction and reformation of identity. It offers ways we might imagine liberated futures where everyone can live freely and thrive.

  • Cracks in the Curriculum: Poetry from the Personal

    KS2-5+

    Published by Serpentine Galleries

    This free resource is an invitation for educators in primary, secondary, further and higher education to create safe spaces for people of the global majority to feel confident to speak their lived experiences. It aims to open up a space for teachers and students to talk about race and racism in the classroom. The resource features a series of questions for critical discussion, activities for the classroom and a reading list for further study.

  • Cracks in the Curriculum: Sweet Rebellion

    Key Stage 3-5+

    Published by Serpentine Galleries

    This free resource offers a series of activities, which look at the histories of rebellion on British Caribbean plantations through drawing, discussion, group investigations and further study. On the reverse is an illustration by artists Rudy Loewe and Jacob V Joyce, which depicts people who have resisted British colonial rule and injustice.

  • Cracks in the Curriculum: Countless Ways of Knowing – A Mixtape on Education as a Practice of Freedomnowing

    KS1 - 5+

    Published by Serpentine Galleries

    This free resource is an invitation for educators in primary, secondary, further and higher education to create safe spaces for people of the global majority to feel confident to speak their lived experiences. It aims to open up a space for teachers and students to talk about race and racism in the classroom. The resource features a series of questions for critical discussion, activities for the classroom and a reading list for further study.

  • Cracks in the Curriculum: Sex (re) education

    KS3-5+

    Published by Serpentine Galleries

    Sex (re) education, is a research tool for educators to develop anti-sexist, LGBTQ+ positive and anti-racist Relationships and Sex Education (RSE). It can also be used to teach sex education as part of Personal Social Health Education (PHSE). It aims to create space for teachers and students in Years 9 and 10 to talk about sex and relationships in an anti-sexist, anti-racist and LGBTQ+ positive way. The resource features a series of questions for critical discussion, activities for the classroom and a reading list for further study.