A free gallery workbook for Key Stage 3
Take Notice is a free creative workbook filled with exciting activities to support self-led school visits to Tate Modern and Tate Britain.
Invite your students to try out the activities on your visit, filling the pages with drawings, writings, and ideas as you journey through the galleries!
Tate Britain Self-Led School Visit. Photo © Hydar Dewachi
Please bring drawing materials for your group. A pencil each will be enough!
This workbook supports your students to explore the galleries through drawing and writing, generating ideas and opinions about what they find in the art around them.
On your self-led visit to the galleries, encourage your students to work through the prompts in their own way as they move around the building and encounter the artworks.
Example prompt
Find an artwork that you don't understand and stay with it until you begin to make sense of it. Why do you think it is in the Tate collection? Consider taste and opinion. Who decides? Write down what you like and don't like about the artwork.
This resource can be used throughout the permanent collections at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. The prompts and activities can be followed with any artwork on display, so you are free to move through the gallery and visit artwork that fits your curriculum.
Copies of Take Notice will be available for collection upon your arrival at the schools desk, enough for 1 workbook per student. You don't need to reserve resources in advance.
If you would like to see a digital copy to plan for your visit, please get in touch at schoolsandteachers@tate.org.uk.
We invite all teachers to engage with this resource and assess whether it suits your class’s needs. All of the prompts in this workbook are designed as suggestions, and there is no obligation for students to follow them to the letter.
The prompts can be spoken out loud or signed for a more conversational approach.
Visual stories
Our visual stories offer photographs and information on what you can expect from a visit to the gallery. You can also download communication cards.
If you’d like to discuss other ways to adapt this resource for your class, please get in touch at schoolsandteachers@tate.org.uk.
If Take Notice is not suitable for your group, we’d be happy to provide alternative resources for your self-led visit and welcome any feedback on how to better support your class when visiting Tate.
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