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Our videos, lesson planning ideas, and artwork selections are designed to support learning across the primary and secondary curriculum.
 
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The Superpower of Looking®

An innovative primary school resource focused on visual literacy.

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Write on Art

The competition for 14 to 18-year-olds in partnership with Paul Mellon Centre.

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Activities

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Video

Short films about artworks and artists, made for schools.

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  • An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
    Sciences
  • Holloway Prison Brooch
    Women's suffrage
  • Pandora's Box
    Myths and fables
  • George Eliot's Hand
    Literature
  • A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula
    Insects
  • Margaret, Domestic Manager
    Healthcare
  • Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)
    Protest and civil unrest
  • Haymaking at Shibbings Meadows
    Dogs
  • Barbara Hepworth
    Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
  • Draped Reclining Woman
    Henry Moore (1898–1986)
  • Reflection
    Bridget Riley (b.1931)
  • White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers
    Anish Kapoor (b.1954)
  • Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993), RA
    Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993)
  • Woman
    Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915)
  • Princess Elizabeth Opening the New Broadgate, Coventry
    Laura Knight (1877–1970)
  • Still Life
    Abstraction
  • La falaise à Fécamp, France
    Impressionism
  • Marilyn Diptych
    Pop Art
  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
    Surrealism
  • Prometheus
    Carving
  • Ophelia
    Pre‐Raphaelitism
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  • Anti-racism resources
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    Anti-racism resources

    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      KS3 (ENG)
      KS3 (NI)
      CfE L4 (SCO)
      CfE L3 (SCO)
      KS3 (WAL)
  • Climate change and the environment resources
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    Climate change and the environment resources

    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      KS3 (ENG)
      KS4 (ENG)
      KS3 (NI)
      KS4 (NI)
      CfE L4 (SCO)
      CfE L3 (SCO)
      KS3 (WAL)
      KS4 (WAL)
  • LGBTQ+ resources
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    LGBTQ+ resources

    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      KS3 (ENG)
      KS4 (ENG)
      KS3 (NI)
      KS4 (NI)
      CfE L4 (SCO)
      CfE L3 (SCO)
      KS3 (WAL)
      KS4 (WAL)
  • Art and design from around the world
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    Art and design from around the world

    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      KS3 (ENG)
      KS4 (ENG)
      KS3 (NI)
      KS4 (NI)
      CfE L4 (SCO)
      CfE L3 (SCO)
      KS3 (WAL)
      KS4 (WAL)
      CfE Sen. (SCO)

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