Photo: © James Deavin

Gallery Discovery Tours KS1-5

Let us organise a lively gallery tour for you - including discussions and resource-based activities - to suit the ages, abilities and learning styles of your group. In these hour-long sessions students compare and discuss works in the Collection displays, and develop their knowledge of art as well as their creative skills. Some tours in 2009-10 will relate to the Great British Art Debate with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

With thanks to Tate Patrons for their support of Gallery Discovery Tours.

Term-time Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10.30-11.30, 12.00-13.00 and 13.30-14.30
One or two sessions in each time slot (10-20 pupils per session)
Each school can book up to six sessions (ie 120 pupils in total) per day

Creative Thinking for Very Able, Gifted and Talented Children
Ages 7-16

Develop your students' creative thinking through a series of activities based on comparison, analysis, reasoning, imagination and evaluation. 

Term-time Tuesdays. You can book a one-, two- or three-hour session for a group of 20 students in one day. 

This extra time allows your pupils to undertake more challenging activities. Subject to availability.

Photo: © James Deavin

Workshops Nursery - KS5 (90 minutes)

Our creative 90-minute workshops support work in class and also develop your students' knowledge, investigative skills, and critical and creative thinking. We encourage them to express their reactions to what they see, and they also make their own work. Students consider at least one work in depth by looking, thinking, talking and making art. Other works are explored through discussion and art activities in small groups.

Term-time Mondays and Wednesdays, 10.30-12.00 or 13.00-14.30
Two sessions in each time slot for 10-20 students
Each school can book up to four workshops per day (ie a maximum of 80 students per day)

Expressive Drawing

Drawing is a fascinating and powerful way of expressing personal ideas and feelings. At this workshop your students discover how artists from different times have used the medium, and then make drawings both individually and in groups which express their own thoughts and ideas.

Supported by The Stanley Picker Trust

Speaking Pictures
Reception and KS1-3

Storytellers bring pictures and sculptures to life using creative links between words and images. During these enjoyable participatory sessions children listen to stories and become involved in the storytelling themselves. They'll develop their language skills while learning about works of art on display.

Term-time Wednesdays 10.30-12.00 or 13.00-14.30
Maximum 15 Reception students or 20 KS1-3 students per workshop
Each school can book up to two workshops per day (i.e. a maximum of 30 or 40 students per day)

Supported by C H K Charities Limited

I Can See, 123
Nursery and Reception

With the help of our Early Years Assistant Curator, children use games, movement and practical activities to explore different ways of looking at works in the gallery. 

Term-time Mondays, 10.30-12.00 and 13.00-14.30 (NB start and finish times are flexible)
One session in each time slot (10 students per session)
Each school can book up to two sessions (i.e. 20 pupils in total) per day

Special Educational Needs
(Nursery-KS5)

These workshops are designed to give students with physical, cognitive or sensory difficulties or disabilities a more meaningful experience of the gallery. As well as encouraging looking, listening and talking, they feature activities such as handling objects and movement. 

Sessions are planned in advance with group leaders and work best if the group is accompanied by sufficient staff to support your students' needs. The workshop includes a break for refreshments.

Choose a theme from: Landscape and Environment, The Human Form or Inspired by Nature.

Term-time Mondays, 10.30-12.00 or 13.00-14.30
Maximum of 15 students per workshop
Each school can book up to two workshops per day (i.e. a maximum of 30 students per day)

Supported by the Haberdashers' Company