Project or print out and show the class 'Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump' by Joseph Wright (easily google-able, and attached as a downloadable document below). Looking How many people are there in this picture? What are they looking at? Is anyone excited? Is anyone scared? Is anyone happy or sad? Are you surp...

Edward Colston 120 years ago, a statue of Edward Colston was erected in Bristol. Underneath there was an inscription: “Erected by citizens of Bristol as a memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons of their city.”  Colston was a wealthy man and he gave a lot of money away to build schools, hospitals and houses for t...

Please refer to attached images (downloadable at bottom of this page) Looking Is this a colourful picture? Why is he naked? Is his body more like the rock to his left or the triangle to his right? How many objects are in this picture? What is the oldest thing in the picture? What is the youngest thing in the picture? Thin...

* This session uses a Pollock picture. There is one downloadable at the bottom or find your own image that would work! Looking Are there any objects in this painting? Are there emotions in this painting? Is there anything in this painting? Thinking Starter Question: Does this painting make sense? Q...

Preparation: You will need up to eight portrait pictures (e.g. 2 Ruben's portraits, a Titian and a Memling for the first part and a Rubens, a Picasso, a grotesque and an abstract for the second) A couple of music stands to prop the pictures up. Stimulus Part 1 For the first activity, put up the four portraits. The task is to ...

* Please refer to attached image Looking Is it a man, woman, girl or boy? Is the painting bright or dark? Are there any objects that are moving in the painting? What is the person in the painting looking at? Why is the person looking intense or relaxed? Are there any surprises in the picture? ...

* Please refer to attached image Doing Ask the learners to get into pairs and take ten selfies on their phones or on school tablets. When they are finished ask them to pick one form the ten to share with the group. Doing Question: Which selfie did you chose and why? Next show them a selfie alongside Vincent Van Gou...

Key idea Qualities of a superhero. What makes someone a superhero? Is it how you look or what you do that is important? Resources Charlie’s Superhero Underpants by Paul Bright & Lee Wildish (It could be any book about a super hero really, I just found this one quite fun) A super hero cape Some superhero gloves So...

By Joe Tyler Session uses picture book: 'The Big Ugly Monster' by Chris Wormell Props: Elephant puppet and Ugly Monster puppets. Starter: Introduce the elephant puppet.  Then we shall remind ourselves what philosophy is.  Then we shall try to guess what the story is about as I remove puppets from the ba...