Useful links: Places to visit
Discover - The Story Making Centre - http://www.discover.org.uk
Discover is the UK’s first hands-on centre focusing exclusively on creativity through projects, exhibits and activities exploring words, language and imagination. Children can dress up, explore a secret cave, put on a puppet show, visit a pirate ship, take part in an art activity and delve into Discover’s exhibitions. The centre features a story garden and story trail that children can follow and create and submit their own stories.
Saatchi Gallery - http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/schools/info.htm
The Saatchi Gallery presents contemporary art from lesser known and displayed international artists. The gallery website has a dedicated schools’ section and provides guidance for school visits and downloadable teachers’ packs to accompany their current exhibitions.
Shakespeare’s Globe - http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/
Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare’s work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education. Globe Education has a schools programme that runs alongside performances and also offers online resources.
Tate Modern - http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
Created in 2000 and housed in a disused power station in central London, the Tate Modern houses the national collection of international modern art from 1900. It has an active education department that runs a variety of programmes for primary and secondary schools, aimed at engaging children with the artworks.
The British Library - http://www.bl.uk/
The British Library in London offers resources including books, journals, newspapers, video, sound recordings including audio interviews with famous writers and a huge online resource. There are also regular, free workshops offered to primary and secondary schools to accompany the Library’s programme of events.
The National Gallery - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries. It has an active education department that runs a variety of programmes for primary and secondary schools, aimed at engaging children with the artworks.
The Poetry Library - http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/education/
The Poetry Library is the most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain. Its education department houses a teaching poetry collection (textbooks, classroom anthologies and workbooks), loans books for classroom use, gives advice to young poets and provides information on useful organisations which can help schools with poetry and creative writing, among other services.
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