Pupils will explore how artists use colour to capture the look and feel of the world around them. They are encouraged to look closely at the buildings and colours of the environment and use colour theory to examine artworks and help inform their own compositions.
Inspired by image and individuality pupils explore sculpture, textiles and interactive art to help them understand the different ways artists represent and construct identity. They create and follow a line through the gallery as they layer ideas, transform materials and create an experimental sketchbook. In our studios they use themselves as the starting point to turn expressive drawings into three-dimensional wire sculptures.
Using curious objects and historical and imaginative paintings as settings, pupils bring the collection alive using drama techniques that extend into movement and the development of sounds. Their ideas and resulting performances are documented on DVD so that these can be developed back in school into a range of creative writing outcomes, including the development of stories.
Pupils meet a 19thcentury rural family who are leaving the countryside to embark on a new life in
The year is 1485 and the Tudor dynasty is just beginning….
Pupils step back in time and witness the victory of Henry VII at the battle of Bosworth Field. Using drama and roll on the wall, they follow Henry VIII from a young boy thrust into a world of power to a king desperate for a male heir and explore decisions he made. Through these experiences they examine the structure of Tudor society and the events surrounding the English Reformation.
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