cross curricular

Each featured artist has sections on techniques, influences, questions and a gallery of their work. We also produce a classroom workshop on a related theme which should be replicable in schools across the country.

The recent term featuring the artists from South Africa who have drawn the life of Nelson Mandela in comic book form is a good example. Umlando Wezithombe. We would draw your attention especially to the Story of Mandela page which has eight video clips which highlight eight important events in Nelson Mandelas life and the comments by Santa Buchanan in the Influences section about life as a white child growing up in South Africa.

On the theme of comic books we also made Superactioncomicmaker an interactive activity which allows learners to create fantastic stories for comic characters in pictures and text. We think that both of these recent additions could be of use as part of Citizenship for KS2/3 or English KS2/3.

Tell us what you think via our Get in touch button on the dropdown menu. As part of our work with Andy Goldsworthy we filmed young people discuss and debate the merits of his work in the galleries of Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of a special Audience section.

We have a similar set of video clips relating to the British Art Show and to Antony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles' We hope these video clips will be of particular use as part of Literacy KS2 speaking and listening.