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Tudor Portraits

Create a ‘living’ portrait of Elizabeth I using replica costumes and props to discover how composition, form, shape and tone portray hidden messages about power, status and everyday life.

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16 June 2023

School Workshop: Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins Rival Queens

Discover plots, espionage, treachery, and the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.

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13 October 2022

Signs of The Seasons

Discover the seasonal changes that take place in nature in this outdoor workshop at Temple Newsam for Early Years and Key Stage One. How do the local animals and plants adapt?

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29 September 2022

Adaptation Investigators

Discover how animals are adapted to increase their chances of survival, through behavioural or physical/anatomical traits in this workshop at Wildlife World.

Capybara at Wildlife World

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10 September 2021

Living in the Dark

Explore how nocturnal animals are adapted to living in their dark environments. Step into our Nocturnal House at Wildlife World to see bats, cloud rats, a kinkajou and armadillo.

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21 July 2021

Local History GCSE Tours

Tailor-made tours for GCSE students exploring the values, beliefs and attitudes of families who lived at Temple Newsam. An approved historical site for the OCR syllabus.

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17 September 2020

Lotherton Topic Days

We provide activities to inspire your pupils’ creativity and learning in a varied and wondrous setting, including a yoga warm up, investigating and exploring, giant drawing and object handling.

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21 May 2019

Gallery and the city

Discover the history of the gallery and its relationship with its city. Cross-curricular art and history workshop for one or both curriculum areas or knowledge of careers in the art world.

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11 February 2019

Cultural activists

Issue focused workshop using carefully selected artworks to initiate exploration of culture within the wider world and support reflection on attributes needed to manage growing-up and adulthood.

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ARTeam Techniques

Specialist-led workshops to develop and improve skills in a specific arts practice or Arts Award. Options include drawing, painting, conceptual art, music and creative writing.

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Take one picture

Practical cross-curricular workshop using learning strategies from the National Gallery’s exciting initiative. Young people and teachers work together to set themselves a creative challenge.

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Super Sensory Sketchbooks

Playful workshop to engage all senses in exploring, making and sharing through immersive experience. Create handmade books or a story, sound or movement.

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Thinking making

Design technology workshop to understand and solve real design problems, from exhibition organisation and shop products to visitor interactives and bespoke seating.

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Ways of being an art detective

Investigation workshop using looking and thinking to explore artworks in the gallery. Use enquiry and literacy skills to form and share opinions in groups.

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Picturing design

Creative workshop to develop art skills and confident use of materials and ideas. Artworks in the gallery imagination and experimentation for creative work in small groups.

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First World War: Beyond the trenches

Use objects, evidence and discussion to discover the local experience of war, from the Leeds PALS and Rifles to the stories of the people they left behind.

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Stone Age to Iron Age Britain

How did Britain change from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age? How do we know when there were no written records?

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Walk like an Egyptian

Forget Pharaohs and pyramids – see how everyday citizens of ancient Egypt lived. Handle real Egyptian artefacts including 3,100 year old mummy bandages.

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What have the Romans ever done for us?

Pupils will explore Roman life in Britain by handling artefacts from Dalton Parlours, a Roman villa near Wetherby, and investigate their legacy.

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Rocks and Fossils

Where do rocks come from? How are rocks classified? What are fossils and where are they found? Find out about sand, soils, minerals and shells and a planet that is constantly evolving.

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Science in the workplace: Behind the scenes

Find out why museums need to use science, from storage to object preservation and cleaning.

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