ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the formation of Bretton Hall College as a teacher training college for the arts, and how this influential creative institution shaped teacher training through the arts from 1949 in the West Riding. The philosophy of practice at Bretton Hall co-created satellites of being; students who had been nurtured and valued went on to bring this nurturing and value into the classroom. Recognising teacher training as fundamental in the West Riding vision for education, a training college for the arts was agreed upon, and in January 1946 Bretton Hall, in West Bretton, was deemed suitable for such a purpose. The cross-fertilisation of practices in music, movement, arts and drama, how this could enrich children’s learning as a signature of West Riding provision, and the creative home which embodied these principles was established at Bretton. The arts, and their intrinsic value and influence on individual personal growth, underpinned the ethos and provision at Bretton Hall.
