Children's bright sewn artwork representing a map with trees, houses and roads made from materials

The Learning Impact Report 2025-26

We are delighted to share our 2025-26 Learning Impact Report, celebrating a year of creativity, collaboration and achievement.

Colourful mosaic featuring a fox and a parakeet sitting on an ornate brick tower surrounded by foliage
Sandringham Primary School, mosaic trail with Yvette Rawson
School reading area adorned with a crafted tree with hanging leaves, green furnishings and
St John the Baptist CoE Primary School, The Reading Forest with Cristina Ottonello

Through imaginative projects, meaningful partnerships and inspiring events, we’ve supported children and young people to develop their confidence, creativity and potential.

Bow Arts’ Head of Learning, Helen Bradbury, reflected on the past year’s challenges and achievements saying;

“We continue to work within a challenging context for education, with pressures on budgets, time and workforce making it difficult to prioritise access to the arts, which make the amazing projects in this report all the more impressive.

Our artist educators are our greatest asset and we are grateful to them for their creativity, ideas and dedication to the children and young people they work with. We aim to continue to prioritise the development of our artists’ practice and provide opportunities for reflection and training.”

Swanlea School Arts Week Photoshop workshop with Will Redgrove
Opossum Federation, textile project with Rhiannon Hunter

The year in numbers

From April 2024 to March 2025, Bow Arts Learning worked with 76 schools across 14 London boroughs

  • Our artists educators have delivered an impressive 739 days on learning projects
  • We facilitated 93 projects with 215 artist contracts, working with 83 artist educators
  • 135 students completed an Arts Award
  • We engaged with a remarkable 11,903 participants across our projects
  • 91% of participants said they enjoyed taking part in Bow Arts projects
  • 93% of teachers said our CPD workshops would have an impact on their teaching
  • 100% artists said they enjoy being a Bow Arts Learning artist educator
Phoenix Secondary School, light paintings with Damien Robinson

Case studies

This year’s Impact Report focuses on case studies from each area of our programme illustrating the breadth of our projects in schools:

  • Consortia Schools – Exploring Drawing Teacher CPD at Lansbury Lawrence Primary School
  • Artwork for Schools – The Greenhouse & Secret Garden at Thomas Buxton Primary School
  • Artist Cover & Residencies – Artist PPA Cover at Thornhill Primary School
  • Specialist Skills Development – Light Painting at Phoenix Secondary School
  • Cross-Curricular Projects – Celebrating Differences at Southwood Primary School
  • Access to Creative Careers – Sculptural Artwork & Studio Visits at Mulberry Academy Dock London
  • Artist Development – Artist Educator Traineeship programme
Children's bright sewn artwork representing a map with trees, houses and roads made from materials

Read the Impact Report

Download our 2025-26 Learning Impact Report to explore the transformative impact of our work in schools through inspiring case studies and vibrant examples of students’ creativity, achievement and growth.

We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed working with schools and bringing these inspiring projects to life.

Bow Arts Learning Reports

Positive words

Artists, teachers and students reflect on their positive experiences throughout the report – here are a few inspiring comments:

“To me, art is something that makes my feelings flow like music.”

Student

“The children involved have developed in confidence.”

Headteacher

“Incredible opportunities to work in brilliant schools.”

Artist Educator