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Schools Activities
Introduction
This section offers three different workshops ideas around Damien
Hirst's Pharmacy. There are discussion points and activities
as well as classroom based ideas. We imagine each workshop would
take one lesson or one hour. You could build it into a work scheme
or choose to investigate these ideas as a one-off visit to the online
Pharmacy.
Two of the themes relate in particular to the wider syllabus, including
PSHE Healthy Living, Religious Education and Science.
These may include ideas for teaching subjects outside Art, Design,
Technology through the medium of the visual arts.
They're just ideas for you to adapt to the needs of your class,
as you understand them.
Please ensure that the students have all seen the Pharmacy
online project before beginning these workshops. You can get
all the information you will need for these workshops either from
Pharmacy online or other parts of the Tate website.
You may prefer to print out the following workshop plans in order
to use them.
Theme ideas
- Health and Healing (Key Stage 2)
This session is aimed at KS2 and looks at Damien Hirst's Pharmacy
in the wider context of medicine and healing.
It may have useful links to the Science curriculum and PSHE.
- Mortality (Key Stage 3 / 4)
This is aimed at KS3/4 and above and can be a useful way of looking
at Religious Education and philosophical issues through contemporary
art. It could also suggest a different way of looking at art itself.
Warning: some difficult issues are raised in this session and
you should consider whether talking about medicine and drugs is
appropriate for your class.
- The Idea of Installation (Key Stage
4)
This is aimed at KS4 and above but may have ideas that can be
adapted to a wider age range. It explores ideas of installation,
arrangement and interpretation.
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