GALP
Making Change-Impact of Change. With Care
The Goldsmiths Artsmark Learning Programme (GALP) is an ongoing national project in creative pedagogy and praxis, co-created with a project and teaching team and delivered in partnership with Arts Council England. Artsmark Award- the only arts and culture accreditation for schools. It asks what becomes possible when schools and learning communities place the arts at the heart of education, not as an extra, but as a way of making change with care.
Launched in 2023, the programme unfolds through three linked modules. Schools begin with reflection, designing their own self-assessment and values. They move into action, leading inquiry and embedding the arts into whole-school development. They return through reflection, gathering evidence, listening to and learning with children, young people, colleagues, and their wider community members, all shaping what might come next.
This isn’t a closed cycle. It’s a living process, still in motion, still being made. At its centre are the voices of children and young people, shaping the research questions, the evidence, and the futures imagined.
The impact is already emerging. Teachers speak of renewed leadership, deeper confidence, and the strength of being part of a national community. Children and young people show greater agency, joy, and creative progression. Together, these shifts are remaking the conditions of possibility for arts education, with evidence feeding directly into national debates, policy engagement, and ongoing impact and research.
This work is not only about outcomes but about how we get there. It moves slowly, relationally, sometimes frustratingly, always with care. It lives in conversations, in pauses, in mentoring relationships, in the courage to try again. The findings will continue to grow over the next two years, with new stories, new evidence, and new provocations still to come.