Imagine If... 2025
Imagine if.... teaching across the North East was truly inclusive, creative and empowering
Imagine If... is 10
Our annual Imagine If... conference took place in November 2025 at the Great North Museum: Hancock to celebrate its ten year anniversary.
Imagine if… was held in partnership with The North East Combined Authority focusing on the three priorities in their Excellence in Education programme – inclusion, realising potential and teacher wellbeing and development.
Resources from Imagine If... 2025
Take a look at our resources from Imagine If... 2025:
- Cultural Match Evaluation Report for 2024/25 programme. Cultural Match is a school-based cultural engagement programme delivered by North East Museums on behalf of the North East Combined Authority, as part of their Education Improvement programme.
- Cultural Match Programme - North East Museums. Presentation from Sarah Hudson and Rachel Adam with Shiremoor Primary School.
- Inspire Grants Programme from North East Combined Authority. Inspire Grants are available for maintained schools and colleges, or any youth organisation working with children and young people in a collaborative partnership with a school or college situated in the North East CA area.
- Fast Forward to Reading Fluency - North East Learning Trust. Imagine if reading wasn’t a barrier to learning. The session explored the critical role of reading fluency in ensuring a successful transition from primary to secondary school, particularly for pupils who struggle with reading.
- Supporting Emotional Based School Avoidance - South Shields Museum & Art Gallery. This case study illustrated how South Shields Museum & Art Gallery partnered with an Educational Psychologist to use the museum space and collections to inspire children and young people and their families to use art and co-create an art exhibition, as a way to express what makes school a challenging place for them, to help others understand how they might be able to help.
- Articulate - Laing Art Gallery. Articulate uses art as inspiration for learning strategies to support the development of oracy, communication and literacy skills. The session explored some of the activities that we use with children to encourage conversation, debate, vocabulary building and collaborative working.
- Melva - Mortal Fools. Making it easier to support children's complex SEMH needs. The session was for teachers interested in practical, structured and proven ways to support children with the ever-growing complexities of SEMH needs presenting in our classrooms and cultivate their lifelong resilience.
- Voice North East Oracy Programme - Voice 21. In the session, you will be introduced to the Voice 21 Oracy Framework. Pupils from Westgate Hill Primary will perform a variety of poems, using their presentational talk skills, which are developed through exploring the Physical Strand of the Oracy Framework and the LAMDA Verse and Prose syllabus.
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