Eastside Educational Trust

Today, our team and trustees came together for our annual away day 💬

It was an inspiring day full of sharing ideas, celebrating our work, and asking the big questions about how we can grow, raise awareness, and make an even greater impact on the lives of young people across London and beyond.

Thank you for for having us - what a view! 🏙️

🎥 Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week with a FREE creative livestream 🎥

Join us on the 14th of May for a FREE 50-minute workshop, led by expert facilitators Ella and Paul, to promote positive mental health and boost PSHE outcomes in your classroom.

This interactive livestream will use drama activities and techniques to help your KS2 students celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week and add to their emotional toolkit.

📆Thursday 14th May at 2:00 - 2:50pm
📍Online
🔗Sign up through the link in our bio

Support your KS2 students with their transition to secondary school life with Eastside’s Celebrating Wellbeing workshops! 

These workshops celebrate and foreground positive mental health and expression and boost personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) outcomes. Students will be provided with a safe space to creatively and healthily express their emotions and experiences, especially around the topics of uncertainty and change in relation to transition between KS2 and KS3. 

All workshops are led by Eastside’s expert facilitators and build key personal and academic skills for all participating children, including emotional literacy, resilience, speaking & listening, confidence and collaboration.

🔗 Find out more about how these workshops could work for your students’ needs through the link in our bio

📖 Want to see your students become published poets? 

Submit your students’ poems by Friday 24th April 2026 to be featured in this year’s Spoken Word Power Anthology, ‘What We Share’.

Spoken Word Power Live is a free online poetry programme for schools across the UK and beyond. 

🔗 Find out how to get involved through the link in our bio 

By signing up, you will have access to a wealth of digital resources to support you in making poetry relevant and engaging for your students and boost their oracy skills.

📣 Applications are now open for a free street art project this summer term, and we want your school to be part of it!

Eastside and Stratford Junction are inviting KS2 classes across East London to explore the theme “Love East London” with professional street artists.

Pupils will develop their own designs and contribute to a large-scale mural painted on a real London bus at Stratford Junction.

The program is free to participate in, and spaces are limited.

The deadline to express your interest is Monday 20th April at noon.

🔗 Apply through the link in our bio

🎤It’s been one week since we were in the wonderful Criterion Theatre for our Spoken Word Power Sharing event!

Throughout the day, we welcomed over 600 young people to the theatre to share their poetry on stage, including one school that came all the way from Rotherham in South Yorkshire!

A special thank you to all the artists, teachers and Eastside team who made this day happen.

🔗 Find out more about the programme through the link in our bio

📣 Final chance to double your donation to Eastside.

The Big Give campaign closes at midnight on Tuesday - meaning every pound you give becomes two. This teacher’s words say it better than we ever could. Help us make sure more young people across East London get that experience.

🔗 Donate now through the link in our bio

🎤 We’re live! The Big Give campaign has launched and your donation to Eastside will be doubled until 24th March.

Every pound you give goes towards bringing spoken word poetry into classrooms across East London, helping young people find their voice and build confidence through the arts.

Visit the link in bio to donate today and double your impact.

📣 Big Give’s campaign launches tomorrow!

For one week only, every donation made to Eastside through Big Give will be doubled - meaning your support for young people across London goes further than ever.

Head to the link in bio from midday to give.

⭐️ Next week, every donation to Eastside gets doubled.

We’re taking part in Big Give’s campaign - for one week only, your gift will be matched pound for pound, going twice as far for young people across London.

🔗 Visit the link in bio from midday on Tuesday 17th March to make your donation count.