Learning & Participation

The Thames Festival Trust runs an extensive London and international learning and participation programme, reaching over 3,000 young people each year.

We pride ourselves on the range, depth and quality of our learning and participation work.  In 2011, we worked with 300 primary and secondary schools from all 33 London boroughs. We also work with over 100 community groups between March and September as part of our Night Carnival work.

We do our first Inset sessions with teachers in March and continue with music- and arts-related workshops throughout the Spring and Summer terms. Over the Summer holidays we are actively engaged in Summer University schemes. Our Learning and Participation team’s final push is in September, when we encourage and coordinate school trips to the South Bank during the first two weeks of the Autumn term.

All of our projects are linked in some respect to the River Thames. Each project is aimed at fostering a greater understanding and appreciation of the River Thames, its diverse history and its role as a living, working waterway. We aim to accompany all of our work in schools with river and river-related education resource materials.

Projects