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Schools

Our Programming and Participation team provides a variety of opportunities for Primary, Secondary and SEN Schools to engage with artsdepot's work

Current projects

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Barnet & Culture for Youth

Barnet & Culture for Youth is Barnet's Cultural Education Partnership and aims to provide a rich cultural education for every child and young person in the borough.

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Touring Into Schools

Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, John Lyon's Charity and Barnet Council, we're touring high quality, professional theatre to Barnet schools, introducing students and young people to the excitement of live performance.

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Explore:Imagine:Rebuild: Spring Term School Gallery Project

artsdepot invites your school to take part in an exciting new creative learning and visual arts project led by professional artists Abigail Hunt and Ngan-Sum Tse-Cappi.

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Summer Work Experience

Each year, artsdepot offers a week-long work experience placement for young people in years 10 – 13.

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Young People

Creative Pathways: SEN Work Experience

Creative Pathways is an empowering work experience programme for learning disabled young people aged 16–24, designed to open doors into the arts and creative industries.

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Children Young People

SPARK – Home Educated Creative Learning Programme

Tue 21 Oct 2025 – Tue 24 Mar 2026

Art Space

Is your child Home Educated, 7 – 14 years old and interested in the arts? Then our SPARK programme is right for you!

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Students backstage at artsdepot using the lighting desk in the Studio Theatre

Backstage Tours

We offer schools the opportunity to experience a Backstage Tour of our Pentland Theatre space. In this tour, students go behind-the-scenes to discover how to bring a performance to life – through lighting, sound and staging.

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PRU Creative Workshops

Thanks to generous funding from Arts Council England and the John Lyon’s Foundation, we have been able to continue our long-standing relationship with The Pavilion Pupil Referral Unit.

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SEN Creative Workshops

Supported by funding from Arts Council England and the John Lyon’s Foundation, artsdepot is on a mission to deliver responsive and engaging creative workshops to every SEN school in Barnet.

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NT Connections

An annual festival of theatre performed by young people.

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Past Projects

Three smiling students sit cross legged under a structure they have made from pink fabric and sticks.

Playful Prototypes – A Creative Schools Project

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A structure made from painted wooden blocks spelling HOPE on display in a white walled gallery.

Climate Emergency

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Two teachers and two students next to The Storytelling Igloo, a structure made from coloured concrete blocks, on display in a white-walled gallery.

The Storytelling Igloo

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Three students working on a construction of white vertical and horizonal strips and yellow plastic.

Apthorp Architecture Exhibition – A Creative Schools Project

Supported by funding from the Ove Arup Foundation, the Apthorp Architecture Exhibition was an exciting project delivered by socially engaged architects with the aim of creatively connecting young people to themes of sustainability.

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Structures made from cardboard, coloured paper and recycled materials on display in a white-walled gallery.

Future Cities: Schools Sustainability Project

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