The Mayor’s Thames Festival 13 & 14 September 2008 sponsored by Barclaycard OnePulse

“London's biggest end-of-summer party”

Evening Standard

Subsections for education:

• Education
• The Thames KS2 Education Pack
• Thames Festival Rivers of the World web pages
• The Thames Twenty Rivers of the World Audio Tour

Principal sponsor

• Barclaycard OnePulse — www.barclaycard.co.uk/barclaycardonepulse

Principal funders

• Mayor of London — www.london.gov.uk
• Arts Council England — www.artscouncil.org.uk

Education

The Mayor’s Thames Festival prides itself on the range, depth and quality of its education and outreach work.

In 2007, we will work with 300 primary and secondary schools from all 33 London boroughs, reaching over 10,000 young people. By 2012, we aim to work with every school in London. We will also work with over 100 community groups from March to September.

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 Education and Outreach 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.

Visit the Thames Festival Rivers of the World web pages - a collaborative platform for teachers and students globally. The participating schools use this platform to present their school workshop and resulting art work to the world.