Impact

Delight supports schools in closing the opportunity and attainment gap for children affected by disadvantage or additional needs.

Our programmes focus on improving children’s engagement in learning, developing essential life skills, increasing well-being, and boosting confidence to explore creativity and broaden horizons.

Wellbeing

97% of parents and carers believe the Delight programme was a positive experience for their child.

Learning

All programmes contributed to improved learning outcomes, including understanding and use of new vocabulary and fluency of speech

Creative

Confidence in arts increased amongst all children and they felt more able to express themselves through the arts.

We are proud to have industry-leading research on the impact of arts-based learning as part of all of our programmes, in partnership with our independent evaluation partner ImpactEd.

Thanks to funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, we have partnered with ImpactEd on a four year study to track the progress of children and teachers participating in our programmes. We share research findings to inspire and support educators and artists to incorporate arts-based learning within primary schools.

"Parents observed enhanced social and emotional skills in their children, along with increased engagement in art, dance, and acting at home, suggesting that the programmes’ learnings were embedded in pupils’ lives."

"All three programmes contributed to the development of technical vocabulary and knowledge of the arts amongst pupils."

"a substantial increase in teachers’ confidence in delivering arts-based education was found consistently."

"Programmes had a particular effect on pupils’ oracy and literacy, where connections between the art forms and their curriculum learnings were made, especially amongst pupils with SEND."

"The average creative development score of pupils with Pupil Premium significantly increased across programmes."