A new college for fourteen to nineteen year olds specialising in music performing arts, creative media production, art & design.
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info@acac.org.uk
We are being incubated through CIVA, a charity with over 25 years of experience of setting up new and innovative organisations.
CIVA is a registered charity – charity number 1122095.
Overview
All City Arts College is a new educational institution that has creativity, social justice, agency and well-being at its core. In the same way that Art Schools operate All City Arts College will be an exciting, engaging and explorative learning journey not an exam factory. Alongside our curriculum offer All City Arts College will provide social justice through community impact and social mobility, creative learning and pedagogical innovation. We believe that a holistic and creative education is the catalyst for personal, professional and cultural transformation. We are in the process of opening a non-fee-paying independent school for 14-19 year olds. We will work with all students, but our admissions policy will be based on inclusivity, promoting diversity, working with SEND. We will prioritise working with those students who have struggled to engage in mainstream settings and those who have been excluded from them. The college will be co-located within a community of creative businesses and synchronous third sector organisations, based in a central London location providing access to other creative businesses. We will be funded by philanthropic giving combined with grants and funding from charities, grants, foundations & local authority funding combined with revenue generated by the community of creative businesses that the college will be co-located within.
WHO WE ARE
We are a highly experienced team who have worked for many years in mainstream, alternative and informal settings and therefore understand the ways in which creative learning in a democratic classroom can empower disaffected students and re-engage them with learning. Please take a look at our Advisory Board and Patrons.
WHAT WE’LL DO
All City Arts College will provide education in these subject areas:
Art, Dance, Drama, Digi Arts, Craft Design Technology, Film, Music and Voice
Students will also study English & Maths. Students will also follow a life skills curriculum including financial budgeting, healthy living etc. Students will students co-create their own learning journey based on individual interests and progression pathways.
We will work with all students, but our admissions policy will be based on inclusivity, promoting diversity, and working with SEND. We will be providing access to and training in music, performing arts, creative media production, art & design to students from backgrounds that are currently underserved and underrepresented in the creative industries.
We will work with students who have been excluded from mainstream settings or whose previous educational experience failed to engage them. We will also progress our students into suitable FE destinations and careers and when suitable offer supported internships – for students with additional needs who wish to remain with us post-19 will be able to access a supported internship.
We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse and talented community of students & staff.
All City Arts College will be a safe and inclusive culture where all people treat each other with respect and dignity. All City Arts College value and rely on collaboration based on the diversity of our ideas, perspectives, and experiences to make wise decisions and create effective outcomes. At All City Arts College everyone is supported to learn, lead and grow, while barriers or potential tensions are identified, and actions are taken to address them.
All City Arts College will consistently base all our actions on sustainability principles to protect our planet and future. Everything we do will be socially responsible and sustainable to preserve a liveable environment, to protect the planet, to improve our community, to minimize our carbon footprint, to get to zero waste and to get to carbon neutral.
All City Arts College will have student agency at its core, and we will establish a Youth Board drawn from the first student cohort. Its members will be involved in decision making across all parts of the organisation. Currently our advisory board has two youth members both of whom are Wac Arts College alumni.
