The StratREAL Foundation is working with the Canadian charity Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) to grow its innovative programme in the UK. Our joint goal is for LTTA to develop long-term education partnerships with local school authorities in the UK.

Devised by the Royal Conservatory, Canada's leading arts and education organisation, LTTA is a unique charity that seeks to captivate and motivate children to learn by blending the strengths of traditional classroom curricula with the expressive and creative power of the arts.

Students in LTTA classrooms are encouraged to free themselves from their desks and explore their creative instincts for a deeper conceptual appreciation of maths, science, history and languages. LTTA-certified artists and teachers guide students to create stories for English class, form structures with their bodies to demonstrate concepts in science and to study complex musical rhythms and symbols to enrich maths class.

LTTA runs comprehensive teacher education programs which provide educators with a range of arts-based tools to broaden teaching strategies and promote innovative lesson plans for challenging school subjects. LTTA also enlists the help of specially trained artists who partner with teachers over a three-year period to help deliver the core curriculum in an engaging and imaginative way. LTTA is not an 'artist in the schools' programme but a structured educational system for teaching core subjects.

With help from the StratREAL Foundation, Learning Through the Arts UK has expanded from its base of 6 Birmingham schools to a total of 25 schools nationwide. In addition to the Birmingham successes, these innovative programmes now run in London (9 schools including 1 secondary school), Walsall (5 schools including 1 secondary school), and Leeds (4 primary schools). With 54 classes and 1,620 students involved in the programme nationwide, LTTA UK’s impact on child education is set to grow further.