Duration: 30 Minutes

1. Research the case of Stephen Lawrence independently or in small groups. Independent learners could use the internet, books, newspapers, and create a PowerPoint. SEN/SEMH teachers could provide some facts and information that students could read through.
2. Print off your PowerPoint or any important things you find.
3. Take pauses as the information emerges and discuss, write down, or draw how you are feeling about the information you find.

Duration: 30 Minutes

1. Arrange all your researched information from the Stephen Lawrence case on a wall. Arrange the information in a timeline by drawing arrows, as if solving a case.
2. Add details from your own life to this timeline. Where do the stories overlap?

Duration: 20 Minutes

Use this collective research and learning to have conversations including the following points:

• What feelings come up for you after seeing your research mapped out? Talk about them, write them down, or draw them.
• How do you think Stephen Lawrence's parents felt when they heard of his death?
  Did his parents expect justice? How would you feel and what would you expect to happen?
• What have you learnt about what his mother has done through the years?
• What is your own relationship with the police?

Duration: 20 Minutes

Chris Ofili chose to honour Doreen Lawrence because he ‘was deeply moved by the way in which [her] overwhelming silent grief at her son’s tragic death had been transformed [and] she became even stronger in spirit and emboldened to speak with great dignity’. Her work has led to police reform and has broadened society’s understanding of structural and institutional racism.

1. Reflect on and choose someone close to you or from the past, who created change for us and who you would like to honour.
2. Start by creating a background of colours using watercolours and cardboard edge or use a roller to spread swoops of colour across your surface. Make sure there are no white spaces left. Use as many or as few colours as you like.
3. Let these surfaces fully dry

Duration: 30 Minutes

1. Start to make a grid or any type of pattern on top of your dried colourful background using paint or acrylic paint pens
2. Draw, paint, or collage your portrait on top of the pattern you’ve made
3. Think back to the materials Ofili used – what everyday materials have you never seen in an artwork? Incorporate unexpected objects such as beads, buttons, pieces of fabric, cut-out shapes from paper into your collage.
4. Consider materials that feel celebratory like glitter, sequins, metallic paper or paint to further decorate your portrait image.

Duration: 30 Minutes

Explore race and justice using found objects:

1. Collect a series of small objects that you feel relate to the person you would like to honour, that relate to your personal history or to your own experiences of identity, justice and injustice.
2. Make a 3D sculpture of a head using your found objects and a hot glue gun. Add layers of objects onto the surface, make it as colourful as possible. What does adding more and more objects do? What stories does the head begin to tell?

Ask your students for photos of friends or family that they would like to honour or photos of anyone they admire. Print them out in A3 size and use them as your starting point.

Your student could use their hands or fingers to paint over the photos with watercolour paint, or you could use hand over hand support pulling colours across the page over the photo with cardboard, as in the main activity. Hand over hand support could also be used to stick beads and buttons other materials to the image.

Take time to explore the additional materials first. Fill a tray with buttons or beads or sequins first and encourage them to look in, explore, and feel.