Museums: Schools’ Programme 2017–18

Pre-5s | Primary | ASN Contents

Glasgow Museums: Bringing Learning to Life 1 Booking and Cancelling All visits must be booked in advance by calling us on 0141 276 9505/6 or by emailing Connecting Learning 2 [email protected]

If you need to cancel a booking, please contact us by noon the 3 day before, otherwise you will be charged the full amount for the session.

Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) 4 Pre-visit Information Please check our pre-visit information for each museum venue at www.glasgowmuseums.com in the learning section. Resource Centre 6 Charging Policy update All ASN schools remain free of charge for facilitated visits, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum 8 however multiple visits from the same group of pupils may incur a nominal charge.

People’s Palace and Winter Gardens 12 We have introduced a £10 charge for our CPD sessions for Glasgow teachers. Please see page 21 for details of the exciting programme on offer for this year. 14 Mackintosh 2018 Festival 2018 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Glasgow St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art 16 architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. To celebrate, an exhibition presenting a fresh overview of his influences, work, contemporaries and legacy is taking place Street School Museum 18 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum.

To coincide with this anniversary we will be offering a Provand’s Lordship 20 programme of creative workshops and teachers’ CPD sessions throughout 2018. Look out for the logo in this brochure.

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Welcome to the 2017/18 Schools’ Programme. Bringing children and young people to a facilitated Did we really go back in time?! workshop in a museum is a very special experience. This garden is magic!’ For many learners, this is where the magic happens Primary 1 pupil from Glasgow Gaelic School, and their learning comes to life. Who knows how after visit to Houses Old and New at Provand’s Lordship many future scientists, architects, artists and historians will be inspired? CPD and Museum Champions All of our high quality workshops are designed to extend Glasgow Museums work also with teachers, providing a and enhance classroom learning. Our Learning Team programme of CPD (see p21) and co-ordinating an open have selected objects from our extensive collection to network of Museums Champions. Museum Champions meet best meet the needs of learners, providing challenge and with us three times a year after school, helping shape our enjoyment, and ensuring young people experience depth, learning provision and keeping staff in their schools informed personalisation and choice. about what’s on offer. In return, the Champions have special access to new exhibitions, class connections buses for new Inclusion and Equalities workshops and much more. Museum Champion meetings Our Museum Education Officers work in partnership with are advertised on CPD manager for Glasgow Schools. Education Services to ensure all our workshops are inclusive and meet the needs of learners with School Partnerships English as an additional language, as well as those with We welcome opportunities to build relationships with our additional support needs. All of our venues have accessible local schools. Please get in touch if you wish to explore toilets and lift access. Please let staff know in advance if you possible partnerships with your local museum, whether it’s to require quiet private space. support class work or family learning.

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Our workshops provide excellent We are passionate about supporting Many of our museum venues now opportunities for teachers to observe all children and young people who offer facilitated workshops using how individuals are learn in our museums to develop their neighbouring outdoor spaces, progressing in literacy transferable skills that they will use connecting the and social wellbeing. throughout their life and in their work. learning to the collections. Real world object-based learning with our expert staff supports young We also encourage teachers to extend people to develop communication their visits and use the outdoor space skills, higher order thinking on a self-led basis. and personal attributes through independent and We are working in partnership with collaborative working. Glasgow CREATE to further enhance ‘This morning I didn’t learning experiences in our museums. Look out for this logo beside some of Look out for new musical elements think this was going to our workshops. It denotes that there within some of our be the best trip ever. is archive film footage and teachers’ workshops! resources on the National Library But it was!’ of Scotland’s ‘Scotland on Screen’ Primary 6/7 pupil, Langfaulds Primary website that relates to the workshop.

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Mini Museum Makers NEW! Trickery of Movement – First / Second Level, Primary 4–7 an Introduction to Animation Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Second Level, Primary 5–7 Using real museum objects, pupils will Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 work in groups to create their own Available on selected Mondays mini display. They will learn about only – please check when booking. the roles of curators, designers, and Learners will discover the history of marketing officers, as well as staff early animation using objects from involved behind the scenes. Includes Glasgow Museums’ store at Kelvin Hall a visit to our new museum store at and video from the National Library Kelvin Hall. of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive. SOC 2-01a Then they will create their own zoetrope using some special recycled materials and watch their drawings come to life. Kelvin Hall, SOC 2-04A, TCH 2-12a 1431–1451 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW To book phone 0141 276 9505/06

Why not visit Glasgow’s newest cultural and sporting venue? At the refurbished Kelvin Hall visitors are able to access Glasgow Museums’ new store for its social history collections. Objects in store cover themes such as furniture design, World War II, domestic technology and Glasgow’s industry.

Kelvingrove Park – with its pond, play areas and stunning views of iconic West End architecture – is just across the road!

The NLS at Kelvin Hall offers a range of facilitated visits to their Moving Image Archive for primary and school groups. For further information please contact Learning & Outreach on 0141 880 2302 or email: [email protected]

ASN and BSL All Kelvin Hall school workshops can be adapted for ASN, including BSL (British Sign Language) – phone 0141 276 9505/6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASN schools.

Kelvin Hall | 3 Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)

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Material Explorers Early Level, Pre-5s Children were Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 encouraged to develop Learners will explore the galleries and look at materials used by artists such their skills using as stone, clay and wood. They will then take part in hands-on activities different media and to understand how the different properties of these materials can be materials.’ exploited to create works of art. SCN 1-15a Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) Playful Printing Royal Exchange Square, Mark Making Early Level, Pre-5s Glasgow, Early Level, Pre-5s Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 G1 3AH Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Using a variety of materials, learners The learners will make their own will experiment with colour and mark To book phone 0141 276 9505 / 6 drawings on a number of different making to discover their effects. This Open daily: surfaces, using conventional and workshop also touches on aspects of Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; unconventional materials. They will design through repeating patterns. Thu 10am–8pm; express themselves through the Each child will go home with their Fri & Sun 11am–5pm artwork and take away a colourful own print. masterpiece. TCH 0-12a, EXA 0-02a, LIT 0-02a The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) EXA 0-02a, EZA 0-05a, LIT 0-02a uses its collections, exhibitions and learning programmes to inspire vibrant conversations and creative outcomes. It offers thought-provoking displays of paintings, sculptures, prints and installations. The Learning & Access team encourages active participation though a range of engaging activities, both within the galleries and in the studio.

GoMA is in the heart of the city, alongside excellent public transport links – why not travel by public transport? The Lighthouse and City Chambers are both nearby for a joint visit.

ASN and BSL All GoMA school workshops can be adapted for ASN, including BSL (British Sign Language) – phone 0141 276 9505/6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASl schools.

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Design & Print Glasgow’s Stories in Architecture – First / Second Level, Primary 2–7 There was a lot of use walking and sketching tour Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 of language, describing Second Level, Primary 5–7 Learners will try a variety of printing Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 techniques, taking inspiration from and discussing what the art on display in the galleries. They will explore composition through the children could see.’ This session will use the architecture of symmetry, multiples and inverted Glasgow’s buildings to find out about images. The children will utilise all they the city’s colourful past. Taking the form have learned to make and take away Explore 3D forms through Sculpture of a sketching tour, we start at GoMA, their own print. First / Second Level, Primary 2–7 once the home of tobacco merchant EXA 2-02a, EXA 2-06a, LIT 1-02a Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Lord Cunninghame, and then cross Pupils will compare and contrast scale, over to and the City Experimental Drawing materials and style of sculptures. In the Chambers. We’ll be exploring themes First / Second Level, Primary 2–7 gallery they will record and annotate their such as trade, empire and culture. Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 findings in a sketchbook using drawings Please dress for walking and being Learners will interact with artworks and text. Up in the studio pupils will get out of doors. in the gallery, exerting their opinions to grips with materials inspired by what SOC 2-04a, SOC 2-06a, EXA 1-05a and ideas and working in groups as they have seen in the galleries. well as independently. Observational EXA 2-02a, EXA 1-05a, LIT 1-02a and expressive drawing will take place in the galleries. Using a sketchbook of surfaces, pupils will explore composition, line and tone, and scale. Unusual drawing materials will be explored in our rooftop studio. EXA 1-03a, EXA 2-02a, LIT 1-02a

Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) | 5 Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

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NEW! A Bug’s Life By the Sea Early Level, Pre-5s Early Level, Pre-5s Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 This multi-sensory session conjures up the seaside. Children will explore Children investigate the amazing paintings and enjoy digging in sand world of insects from the museum and handling real seaside objects. collection and the local environment They will help us pack suitcases and in this hands-on workshop. In our go on an imaginary trip to the seaside. stores, they will discover some strange Later they will meet Sammy the and beautiful bugs and beasties from Seagull and his friends. 200 Woodhead Road, around the world, before collecting EXA 0-07a Nitshill, safari jars and magnifiers and heading Glasgow off on an outdoor safari to find and G53 7NN identify what lives in our grounds. SCN 0-01aG53 7 To book phone 0141 276 9505 / 6

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at Glasgow Museums? Bring your class to explore Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, a calm, quiet venue. This museum storage facility and visitor centre in the south of Glasgow holds hundreds of thousands of objects, including paintings, sculpture, arms and armour, natural history, archaeological finds, Ancient Egyptian treasures and transport and technology.

Did you know that GMRC is across the road from the amazing Dams to Darnley country park?

ASN Most workshops can be adapted for ASN – phone 0141 276 9505 / 6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASL schools.

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By the Sea NEW! Glorious Greeks leading the workshop. Early Level, Primary 1 Second Level, Primary 4–7 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 They took the time to This multi-sensory session is all about What did the ancient Greeks do for listen to each child and being at the seaside. Children will look us? Learners will discover some of the at paintings, dig in the sand and handle ways that the technology, philosophy answer questions. They seaside objects. They will help pack and myths of this ancient culture still suitcases, go on an imaginary trip to the affect the modern world. Investigate real even took the time to seaside, meet Sammy the Seagull and and replica artefacts, construct and use show a pupil a fossil to his friends, and create a seaside collage. ancient technology, discover the origins EXA 0-07a of modern medicine. calm him down – really SOC 2-01a, SOC 2-04a, SOC 2-06a Fairy Tales appreciate this. All pupils Early / First Level, Primary 1–4 NEW! The Art of Nature (from Oct) enjoyed the workshop Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Second Level, Primary 4–7 Where do knights, princesses, unicorns Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 and I would recommend and dragons come from? This interactive workshop explores the magical to other classes/schools. (and real) world of fairy tales using Children will journey through Thank you!’ storytelling, drama and the amazing dramatic landscapes depicted in our Primary 2 teacher, Kirkton Primary objects from our stores. sensational works of art, looking at LIT 1-07a how the forces of nature have shaped our world and how artists have REVISED! Whose Rainforest? Ancient Egypt: responded to it. They will then head Second Level, Primary 5–7 Passport to the Afterlife to our outside learning area to create Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 First Level, Primary 2–4 their own dynamic landscape from In this exciting workshop pupils Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 locally sourced natural materials. explore the world of the rainforest, Pupils will handle real Ancient Egyptian EXA 2-05a, EXA 2-07a handle objects from the Amazon and objects and learn about mummification. learn about the lives of the people They’ll find out about some of the rituals REVISED! The Great War living there. Using handling objects the Ancient Egyptians believed led to the Second Level, Primary and (from January 2018) digital afterlife, and take part in a drama about 5–7 technology, learners will roleplay the Weighing of the Heart Ceremony. Per class: Free those with competing interests in the SOC 1-04a (Glasgow) or £45 rainforests – debating some of the Now supporting the important environmental issues that REVISED! Romans: novel study Private surround this topic. The Final Frontier Peaceful, this workshop SOC 2-08a First Level, Primary 2–4 supports learners to Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 connect their school learning with STEM: Young Inventors at GMRC Nearly 2,000 years ago the Romans Glasgow’s WWI collections. They will Second Level, Primary 5–7 invaded Scotland … and then they left. listen to personal Glaswegian letters Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 How far did they get? What did they from the Western Front, experiment This intriguing hands-on science do here? What legacy did they leave? with trench technology, pose in uniform workshop is geared towards Using real Roman artefacts and replica like the soldiers did and find out why understanding both inventors and costumes and weaponry, learners you can’t spend a Dead Man’s Penny. inventions – from television will deepen their understanding of SOC 2-01a to Concorde. Learners will have the Glasgow’s connections to the Romans, chance to explore our stimulating including Rome’s final frontier – the collections and take this opportunity to Antonine Wall. research and develop their own mock SOC 1-01a, SOC 1-02a future inventions. TCH 2-01b

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre | 7 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

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Bees, Butterflies & Beasties! Wonderful Wildlife Early Level, Pre-5s Early Level, Pre-5s Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Magnifying glasses are at the ready This session allows pupils to take a in this interactive workshop full of closer look at the museum’s wonderful discovery. Come and explore a world collection of Scottish landscape of tiny creatures, from butterflies with paintings. They will also explore our beautiful wings to beasties with lots of Scottish Wildlife gallery, looking for legs … you may even hear the buzz of animals featured in the paintings. The our busy little honey bees! session concludes with the creation of SCN 0-01a a landscape using paint and collage. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum EXA 0-04a, EXA 0-07a Argyle Street, Painted Petals Glasgow Early Level, Pre-5s NEW!! Animals around the World G3 8AG Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Early Level, Pre-5s Looking at paintings of flowers and Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 To book phone 0141 276 9505 / 6 plants in the galleries, children will Join us for a hunt to find animals Open daily: explore the beauty of nature. Then they from around the world, including the Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; will recreate the paintings in a 3D form elephant, kangaroo and polar bear. Fri & Sun 11am–5pm with giant flowers and beasties, and Find out about their key characteristics make their own painted flower picture. and how they have adapted to their An exciting range of displays EXA 0-04a, EXA 0-05a environment. Includes games, music and exhibits awaits learners at and hands-on activities. Kelvingrove, including objects from Tiny Time Travellers SCN 0-01a Ancient Egypt, examples of Scottish Early Level, Pre-5s wildlife, dinosaur remains, arms Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 and armour and world-famous art – Children will dress up as time there’s lots to educate and inspire. travellers, then traverse the galleries, Facilities for schools include an exploring different time periods in education suite, a packed lunch Scotland’s history. Can they complete area and shops. the challenges and collect their rewards as they go? Kelvingrove Park is on our doorstep! MNU 0-01a, SOC 0-01, SOC 0-04 While you’re at our museum, why not explore the river, the iconic local Tracks, Trails & Dinosaur Tales heritage and have fun in the Early Level, Pre-5s play areas? Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Wearing dinosaur explorer outfits, pupils will join us in our Creatures of the Past gallery. Here they can see a Ceratosaur’s skeleton, the flying Pterosaur and a giant dinosaur footprint. SOC 0-19, MNU 0-01a

ASN and BSL All Kelvingrove school workshops can be adapted for ASN, including BSL (British Sign Language) – phone 0141 276 9505/6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASN schools.

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Expressions & Emotions From Time to Time Early Level, Primary 1 First / Second Level, Primary 1–4 Allowed children Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 freedom to investigate Our facial expressions can tell a See Tiny Time Travellers in the pre-5 lot about our mood and how we section. and develop further are feeling. Pupils will explore the emotions and characters of Wonderful Wildlife knowledge and those featured in our portraits and First Level, Primary 1–4 sculptures. It also includes a practical Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 understanding activity, making a head from clay. See description in the pre-5 section. EXA 0-05a, EXA 0-07a, of WWII.’ Fossils of the Dinosaur Age Teacher, Kilmaurs Primary Once upon a Time First Level, Primary 2–4 Early Level, Primary 1 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 World War II Trail Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Learners will find out what fossils Second Level, Primary 5–7 Children will be invited to bow to the are and what they can tell us about Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 king, stand like a knight and make the dinosaurs and other creatures that Learners will work in groups to explore princess laugh! A fun and interactive lived in the past. This workshop museum objects and paintings linked look at all the lively characters in includes handling fossils and exploring to WWII, such as the Spitfire and a the story of The Sleeping Beauty, as our Creatures of the Past gallery. sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill. portrayed in our Briar Rose painting. SOC 1-03a This session is predominantly self-led, EXA 0-13a encouraging independent discovery of Life & Death in Ancient Egypt the displays. Explore and Create Outdoors First / Second Level, Primary 3–7 SOC 2-01a Early, First Level, Primary 1–4 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 What was life like in Ancient Egypt? Learners will examine the evidence Scotland on Screen resources available through exploration of gallery to support this topic back in class. Visit displays, object handling and museum In this session we take our learning www.scotlandonscreen.org.uk outside to Kelvingrove Park. Using interactives, and discuss what it tells us natural materials, and working in teams, about the Ancient Egyptians. we’ll be constructing and creating whilst SOC 2-01a learning more about the wildlife in the park. Available all year round. Please dress for being out of doors.

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Famous Artists at Kelvingrove First / Second Level, Primary 3–7 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Kelvingrove contains works by some of the world’s most well-known artists, including Monet, the , the Glasgow Boys and Dalí. Following a tour of the museum, pupils will participate in a range of practical art activities to explore these artists’ styles and techniques. At booking stage please confirm which artist, movement or genre you want to focus on. EXA 1-07a, EXA 1-02a, EXA 2-05a

This session can be adapted to focus specifically on Windows in the West, by Avril Paton, concluding with a writing activity.

NEW! Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style First / Second Level, Primary 3–7 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 A closer look at the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his contemporaries who were producing new and exciting art and designs in the early 1900s. What were the key characteristics of their work? What inspired and influenced them? How was their work unique for its time? Includes a mixed-media art activity. EXA 2-05a, EXA 2-07a

Meet Sir Hugo the Knight First / Second Level, Primary 3–7 Per class: £98 This unique ‘live interpretation’ workshop introduces pupils to Sir Hugo, the best medieval knight in Scotland. Dressed for battle, Sir Hugo will take you back to the time of knights and castles. There will be a chance for pupils to handle real armour as well as exploring the museum’s amazing collection on display. SOC 2-04a

10 | Schools’ Programme Pre-5s | Primary | ASL Children kept very engaged and active. Supported literacy and RSPB at Kelvingrove drama.’ Primary Teacher, Carmyle Primary The RSPB are continuing their successful Beginner Birders partnership with us by offering an exciting First / Second Level, Primary 1–7 Rainforest Investigators programme of workshops based outside Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 First / Second Level, Primary 4–7 in Kelvingrove Park. RSPB Scotland is part Become expert investigators and Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 of the RSPB, the UK-wide charity working discover the fantastic range of What equipment will you need to to secure a healthy environment for birds bird species found in the park. and wildlife, helping to create a better become a Rainforest Investigator Find out the answers to some of world for us all. and what will you find when you get those burning questions: what is there? Join us on a journey to explore the fastest bird in the park? How Kelvingrove Park Minibeast Safari the forest floor with its bugs and are birds adapted to different Early / First Pre-5s and Primary 1–3 beasties, and the canopy layer with environments? And what is a Per class: £15 / £17 (Nursery) or birds and monkeys. Discover more bird anyway? Free / £45 (Primary Glasgow / non- about the people of the rainforest SCN 1-01a, SCN 2-01a Glasgow) through investigation of objects made Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 and used by them. Urban Ecologists Explore the many hidden habitats right SCN 2-28a, SCN 2-01a First / Second Level, Primary 3–7 under your nose! Come and i Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 nvestigate Kelvingrove’s microhabitats, The Vikings Turn your class into urban and learn about insects and other Second Level, Primary 4–7 ecologists! Come to Kelvingrove invertebrates through a series of fun Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Park and learn about the ecosystems activities and games. Vikings have a reputation for being that we share this city with. SCN 0-01a, SCN 1-01a hostile warriors but evidence shows Explore urban habitats whilst they were also traders, explorers and discovering how climate change and Pond Dipping Safari at the Botanics settlers. Pupils will use different sources sustainability are affecting the city Early / First Pre-5s and Primary 1–3 of evidence in practical activities to find we live in. Per class: £15 / £17 (Nursery) or out what they can tell us about the SCN 1-01a, SCN 2-01a SOC 1-12a Free / £45 (Primary Glasgow / non- Vikings’ way of life in Scotland. Glasgow) SOC 2-01a, SOC 2-04a Registered charity: England and Wales no. Come and explore the Botanic Gardens 207076, Scotland no. SCO37654. in Glasgow, and learn about insects Treasure Hunt App and other invertebrates that live in and Early Level around this park through fun activities Per group: free and pond dipping. This digital quiz is aimed at small SCN 0-01a, SCN 1-01a groups of pupils with additional support needs. Follow the clues to find the displays. Download the app onto your phone or tablet before you come, or borrow our iPads (four available). A Learning Assistant will meet your group and issue the iPads, after which you’ll be able to work independently at your own pace.

COMING Autumn 2018 Brushes with War – soldiers’ art Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum This evocative exhibition features drawings created by soldiers in the front line and trenches. Featuring works from British, French and German soldiers, it shows the commonality of their experiences. A unique first-hand account of the war from those involved. Image © Andy Hay

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum | 11 People’s Palace and Winter Gardens

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Jungle Explorers NEW! Gaun the Messages (from Oct) Early Level, Pre-5s Early Level, Pre-5s Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Available Autumn, Winter and Children will investigate what it was like Spring terms only to go shopping before we had large This interactive and multi-sensory supermarkets. Through imaginative play session takes children on an imaginative and by visiting our Buttercup Dairy, children storytelling journey through our Winter will discover the many small, traditional Gardens. They will discover the exotic shops that made up our main streets, and plants and animals of the jungle, such as the different products they sold. pineapple plants and tiny tree frogs. , SCN 0-08a Parks and Backcourts Glasgow, Early Level, Pre-5s G40 1AT This workshop can be adapted to Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 also explore cash crops such as sugar, To book phone 0141 276 9505 / 6 coffee and tea, supporting Open: young children to make Glasgow’s streets, backcourts and public Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; connections between the parks have provided children with an Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; plants, the final product adventure playground over the years. In closed Mon. and the farmers. this interactive session learners will explore HWB 0-35a the spaces and everyday equipment used The People’s Palace explores for play in the past, and how these have the development of the city and changed through time. As this session will people of Glasgow from 1750 to take place outside on Glasgow Green, the present. Children will discover please dress appropriately for outdoor play. how Glasgow became the industrial ‘workshop of the world’, see how a whole family lived in a ‘single-end’, and follow the good times at the dancing or ‘doon the watter’. The adjoining Winter Gardens houses tropical plants and outside is the historic Glasgow Green.

INCLUSION AND EQUALITIES Learning staff at the People’s Palace have been working with specialists from Glasgow’s English as an Additional Language and Dyslexia Support Services. Together we are exploring how we can more fully represent the diversity and changing demography of our city, and better meet the communication needs of learners in the museum.

ASN and BSL All People’s Palace school workshops can be adapted for ASN, including BSL (British Sign Language) – phone 0141 276 9505/6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASN schools.

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Mary Mack in the 1950s First Level, Primary 1–3 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Take a journey back in time to meet Mary Mack and explore how different home life was in Glasgow during the 1950s. Packed with role-playing and hands on activities, this interactive, object-based learning session is NEW! If Paintings Could Talk suitable for P1–P3 classes who have ... good participation Second Level, Primary 6–7 been exploring 1950s’ life prior to Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 their visit. levels for children, they This drama-based workshop will focus SOC 1-04a on the various characters depicted in the were engaged and family portrait of John Glassford, one Around a Glasgow Home then loved handling and of Glasgow’s wealthiest tobacco lords. and now What does this portrait tell us about First Level, Primary 2–4 sorting the artefacts!’ the family, and are there any hidden Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Primary 2 Teacher, Tinto Primary meanings in it? Pupils will participate Using timelines and museum objects, in various roleplaying and interactive children will compare and contrast World War II: The home front group activities to give an in-depth household items from the past with Second Level, Primary 5–7 examination of the portrait and the those used today. Through exploring Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 wider social context of the time. Can be domestic inventions over the last 100 Why did people have to ‘make do a standalone session or alongside the years, children will critically examine and mend’? And what was it like to Glasgow’s Hidden Legacies workshop. the impact of modern inventions on go to school with your gas mask? SOC 2-03a domestic life, particularly for women. Through exploring the collections and SOC 1-04a TCH 1-10a handling objects from rationing to air Digital Swinging Sixties raids and the land girls, young people Second Level, Primary 5–7 will examine the challenges people in Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Britain faced at that time. Scotland on Screen resources available This workshop brings to life the SOC 2-03a to support this topic back in class. Visit colourful 1960s for all your hip wee www.scotlandonscreen.org.uk guys and gals! Using costumes, objects and hands-on activities, groups will work Digital Changing Glasgow independently with iPads to support the www.scotlandonscreen.org.uk Second Level, Primary 5–7 learning around our 1960s’ displays. Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 SOC 2-03a Votes for Women: This session explores how life in The Art of the Suffragettes Glasgow has altered from the early Glasgow’s Hidden Legacies: Second Level, Primary 5–7 1900s to the present day. Working in Slavery Past & Present Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 groups with iPads, learners explore the Second-Third Level, Primary 6–7 Why did some women become People’s Palace collections and find out Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 suffragettes? Why were some women about changes in society, employment This workshop explores the connections anti-suffragettes? This workshop explores and the city. between Glasgow, the transatlantic the social and political position of the SOC 2-04a slave trade and modern-day trade and time, investigating the tactics of the working conditions. Learners will discover Glaswegian women who campaigned the Glassford family story, and handle for the right to vote in Glasgow, and the objects such as shackles and golliwogs. anti and pro suffragette propaganda of www.scotlandonscreen.org.uk In the Winter Gardens we investigate the the time. Where available, some schools live growing cash crops. Can we be sure may step back in time and have their that the supply chain involved in what we workshop facilitated by Flora MacDonald, consume now is free from slavery? a suffragette herself! SOC 2-03a SOC 2-03a

People’s Palace and Winter Gardens | 13 Riverside Museum

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People who help us The children enjoyed Early Level, Pre-5s Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 seeing the different This workshop introduces children to the people who help us in ships and being sailors. emergencies – the police, ambulance and fire services. They will explore the It was good that they emergency vehicles of all three services, looking at what makes them useful and could make their map identifiable, and learn through object and use it as a telescope. handling, activity and play. 100 Pointhouse Place, SOC 0-07a The children learned Glasgow, G3 8RS Nautical Adventures new words, e.g. Anchor Early level, pre-5s To book phone 0141 276 9505 / 6 Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 and spoke about the size Open daily: Ship ahoy! Join us on this nautical Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; journey as we learn all about ships, of the ships.’ Fri & Sun 11am–5pm where they went and who and what was Shawmhor Early Years Centre on them! Through play, object handling Riverside Museum is the award- and storytelling, this fun and interactive winning venue for Glasgow workshop is great for little sailors. Museums’ transport and technology SOC 0-04a, SOC 0-09a collections, located where the meets the Clyde. Exhibits include recreations of Glasgow streets from past times, with shops that children can go into and explore. The museum celebrates the people who shaped Glasgow’s role in shipbuilding, train manufacturing and engineering.

The museum’s riverside location provides an excellent place to view the , and explore its story, past and present.

ASN and BSL All Riverside school workshops can be adapted for ASN, including BSL (British Sign Language) – phone 0141 276 9505/6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASN schools.

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People who help us REVISED! Round in Circles Early Level, Primary 1 Second Level, Primary 5–7 A thoroughly enjoyable Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 FREE for all schools “hands-on” experience This workshop introduces children to Join your SPT guide at your nearest the people who help us – the police, subway station to experience a shoogle from which the children ambulance, fire services and school on Glasgow’s Underground. From crossing patrol workers. Through object station, walk to the Riverside learned much and handling, activity and play the emergency Museum to meet a learning assistant vehicles, clothes and tools that help each who will transport you back in time on enjoyed immensely. do their jobs will be explored. board our WWII and Victorian subway SOC-07a carriages. Pupils will enjoy a return The experience will be journey with SPT before testing their highly recommended!’ Nautical Adventures knowledge on a fun-filled website. Primary 5 teacher, St Denis Primary Early Level, Primary 1 TCH 2-01b Per group: Free (Glasgow) or £17 See listing in Pre-5 section. Victorian Travel Second Level, Primary 5–7 World War II Powerful Stuff Per group: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Second Level, Primary 5–7 First Level, Primary 2–4 A Cabriolet, omnibus, tram or cycle – Per group: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 which would you take? Travel back in Pupils will take on the role of war How does a tram move without electricity? time with us as we explore an exciting correspondents to research and How can a subway operate on steam? time when the Victorians powered communicate real life experiences of war. How did we fly before aeroplanes? Find all forward in the worlds of technology and Through hands-on activities, learners this out and more as we take an interactive innovation. This workshop will walk in will uncover stories of an RAF pilot, the look at some of the most exciting and their footsteps, from Glasgow transport sinking of a cruise liner, and the fate of innovative types of transport from over 100 to world travel. HMS Hood. They will collect information years ago, and discover how they shaped S0C 2-04a to share back in class. the transport we use today. SOC 2-03a, LIT 2-06A SOC 1-02a [The workshop] was NEW! Ship Design accessible to all. First Level, Primary 2–4 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Stimulating and active Become scientists, designers and engineers. Explore different ships in the approach was perfect museum; learn how they were designed for this stage … Leaders and constructed through looking, handling and discussing. Use what you have learned had great rapport with to explore different materials to make your own 2D or 3D ship. younger children.’ TCH 1-12a, EXA 1-02a Primary 1 Teacher, Saracen Primary School,

Riverside Museum | 15 St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art

Pre-5s

Superheroes of the Supernatural Early Level, Pre-5s The children all had a Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 super experience today. Through storytelling, music and dance, children will discover and interact with The session was packed some of the heroic characters in the museum, including the Archangels full of active learning Michael and Raphael and the Hindu god opportunities and the Shiva Nataraja – Lord of the dance. RME 0-07a children loved getting to

2 Castle Street, Bud and the Caterpillar research real artefacts. It Glasgow, Early Level, Pre-5s was very well organised G4 0RH Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 During this workshop, children will To book phone 0141 276 9505 / 6 and our hosts for the find out more about amazing cultural Open: objects from around the world through session were v. good Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; an interactive storytelling adventure. Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; This session encourages children to with the children. I would closed Mon. imaginatively bring a story to life using definitely recommend this props and roleplay. The Museum of Religious Life & LIT 0-19a, RME 0-07a to colleagues.’ Art aims to promote respect and Primary 6 Teacher, New Stevenson Primary understanding between people of different faiths and of none. The museum is an exciting resource which encourages children to engage with both world faiths and contemporary issues affecting society today.

Extend your time here by visiting the amazing Necropolis and Cathedral on our doorstep!

ASN and BSL All St Mungo’s school workshops can be adapted for ASN, including BSL (British Sign Language) – phone 0141 276 9505/6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASN schools.

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Chinese New Year Glasgow: A Sectarian City? World Religions First Level, Primary 2–3 Second-Third Level, Primary 6–7 Second Level, Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Per class: £25 (Glasgow) or £45 Primary 5–7 Chinese New Year – meet Lele, the This workshop uses handling objects FREE for all schools playful lion! This fun and highly and the collections in our galleries This interactive workshop interactive workshop uses storytelling, to support Divided City and other offers an introduction music and roleplay to develop SOS values-based education work in to world faiths and to St children’s understanding of the culture schools. Through exploring sectarian Mungo Museum. Each and objects of one of the biggest language, reflecting on assumptions workshop focuses on one celebrations in the Chinese calendar. and deepening understanding of theme within the museum’s RME 1-04b prejudice and discrimination, learners collection, so please choose build on personal attributes of from one of the following Superheroes of the Supernatural empathy, respect and openness. options and specify when First Level, Primary 2–3 RME 2-09b booking: Buddhism, Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Christianity, Hinduism, Starting in the exhibition Heavenly World War II – The Holocaust Humanism, Islam, Judaism Creatures: Angels in faith, history Second Level, Primary 5–7 and Sikhism. and popular culture, children discover Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 through object investigation what Using objects and personal stories, this We can also facilitate makes a sacred superhero. They will workshop examines the survival and sessions where the six main then explore through interaction and tragic deaths of Holocaust victims. With world religions are all looked problem solving other superheroes group activities including Holocaust at through group work but around the museum, including Roman object stories, focused investigations in less depth. This offers a god Hermes, and tales of the Eight and discussion, pupils will deepen primer for classes beginning Chinese Immortals. their understanding of human rights to explore religion while and build on personal attributes reflecting the diversity of of empathy, respect and openness belief in Glasgow. through this immersive experience. RME 2-06a SOC 2-01a

St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art | 17 Scotland Street School Museum

Pre-5s

Wee Architects, Wee Builders Early Level, Pre-5s This has been great Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 scaffolding for learning Children will explore Scotland Street School Museum and learn about as part of our STEM how buildings are built. They will also discover more about building tools, work with girls and look at pictures, hear stories and take part in hands-on activities, such as boys.’ mixing cement. Govanhill Nursery School TCH 0-01a 225 Scotland Street, Glasgow, G5 8QB To book phone 0141 276 9505 / 6 Open: Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s most celebrated architect, designed Scotland Street School between 1903 and 1906. The museum now tells the story of education in Scotland from 1872 to the late 20th century. In our interactive workshops children can find out what school was like in the past, and also learn about architecture and building.

From 2018 you can extend your stay using our games in our newly refurbished playground. And why not visit us using the famous Glasgow Underground? We’re opposite Shields Road Station.

ASN and BSL All Scotland Street School workshops can be adapted for ASN, including BSL (British Sign Language) – phone 0141 276 9505/6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASN schools.

18 | Schools’ Programme Pre-5s | Primary | ASL Primary

New! GlaswegAsians NEW! Shapes of Mackintosh World War II / Victorian Classroom Celebrate and discover multiple facets of First-Second Level, Primary 2–7 Re-enactments local Asian culture in our new exhibition Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Second Level, Primary 5–7 GlaswegAsians – Colourful Heritage, the Could one of your learners be the next Per class: £90 actor led, for all story of the South Asian community in Mackintosh? For 2018, this special schools Glasgow. Details of resources to support workshop will explore the famous Art FREE self-led, for all schools your visit will follow in the new term. Nouveau motifs here, analyzing the Costumes for all children, period design decisions made and connecting objects and a scary teacher! Seating Toys these with prior knowledge of shape for up to 60 in the WWII sessions Early-First Level, Primary 1–2 and tessellation. Using viewfinders and 50 in the Victorian sessions Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 and maps of the building, teams are (accompanying adults need to be This session explores traditional challenged to locate as many specific included in the visitor numbers). playground games and supports designs as possible, comparing their SOC 2-04a children to contrast old toys with those discoveries with their own work. of today. While experiencing the school MTH 1-16 a/b 2-16 a/c, EXA 1/2-03a NEW! Pink for Boys, Blue for Girls class displays and the cookery room, Second Level, Primary 5–7 learners discover how different toys in The Times they are A-Changin’ – Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 the past were used and what materials Life in the 1960s Did you know that when Scotland they were made from, comparing with Second Level, Primary 5–7 St opened in 1906 these were the the manufacture of present day toys. Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 recommended colours? Seventy years SOC 0/1-01a This workshop supports young people later the opposite was true … where Spick, Span and Sporty to critically analyze the major social do we stand now? Through exploring First Level, Primary 2–4 and cultural changes that took place objects, photographs and video Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 in the 1960s, through the context of testimonies, this workshop supports Discover what Scotland Street School our 1960s’ classroom. Using iPads, learners to compare and contrast was like in the old days at the hands of costumes and group discussion, their own experience and perception our Headmaster / Headmistress. Find out learners will explore how the sense of gender with those experienced in about the pupils who came here and of empowerment that gathered school life over the last 100 years. how they lived, including the chores they momentum in this era has influenced SOC 2-04a, HWB 2-10a had to do. Finish off with a spot of drill! their lives today. HWB 1-27a, SOC 1-01a SOC 2-04a

Scotland Street School Museum | 19 Provand’s Lordship

Pre-5s Primary

The Amazing Time-travelling House Back in Time Early level, Pre-5s Early Level, Primary 1 Per group: £15 (Glasgow) or £17 Per class: Free (Glasgow) or £45 Children will explore the history of Through imaginative roleplay, Glasgow’s oldest house through children will discover the secrets of a multi-sensory and interactive Glasgow’s oldest house and explore adventure. Role play and costumes the differences between houses of help bring history to life in this long ago and houses today. Costumes imaginative workshop. and creativity make stories of the past SOC 0-04a come alive as children go behind the scenes to meet some of the oldest 3 Castle Street, former residents. Glasgow, SOC 0-04a G4 0RB To book phone 0141 276 9505 / 6 Open Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon. A visit to Provand’s Lordship gives children the chance to learn about Glasgow’s medieval past. Provand’s Lordship was built over 500 years ago and is Glasgow’s oldest house. Why not extend your visit to explore the beautiful St Nicholas’ Gardens, the Necropolis and the Cathedral, taking in this area steeped in medieval history! Our facilitator was amazing with the class and it was lovely to get to the garden. Dressing up was a great idea and made the stories come alive.’ Primary 1 Teacher, Glasgow Gaelic School ASN and BSL All Provand’s Lordship workshops can be adapted for ASN, including BSL (British Sign Language) – phone 0141 276 9505/6 to discuss. Workshops are FREE for ASN schools.

20 | Schools’ Programme Pre-5s | Primary | ASL Professional Learning for Teachers Our CPD sessions are £10 for Glasgow teachers and £15 for teachers from other local authorities (except those marked *). Bookings are taken six weeks prior to course start date. Glasgow teachers should book on CPD manager, all other teachers should call 0141 276 9505 / 9506 . 2017–18 CPD programme

Wed 27 Sep* E-resources for Local History studies – exploring online maps Kelvin Hall and archive photographs and film footage for social subjects. In partnership with the National Library of Scotland

Wed 4 Oct Join the RSPB to learn more about different habitats within Kelvingrove Kelvingrove Park and the wildlife that lives there.

Thu 5 Oct Using the natural environment in art – creative activities GoMA inspired by work of Andrew Goldsworthy.

Tue 10 Oct Life in the Rainforest – curator’s tour of our museum stores GMRC followed by an opportunity to try digital resources.

Thu 26 Oct Traveling Communities – explore best practice in recognizing Riverside and responding to racist incidents within the school environment through practical activities. In Partnership with Show Racism the Red Card

Wed 15 Nov* Mini Museum Makers and Film Curators. Supporting you to Kelvin Hall create your own museum or host a film screening at school, highlighting the Interdisciplinary learning opportunities. In partnership with the NLS

Tue 21 Nov Take One Artwork! Interdisciplinary learning through a chosen Kelvingrove piece of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s work.

Tue 6 Feb Egyptian Inspired Art. Curator’s tour and art activities inspired Kelvingrove by our Ancient Egyptian artefacts.

Tue 20 Feb Romans and the Antonine Wall. Discover the Romans through Part 1: GMRC & 27 Feb our collections and those at Glasgow University’s Hunterian Part 2: The Hunterian Museum Museum. Try the exciting new teaching resources developed by Historic Environment Scotland

Thu 8 Mar Holocaust – exploring the topic through museum objects, St Mungo Museum artworks and survivors’ stories.

Thu 26 Apr Slavery: Exploring Glasgow’s connections to the Transatlantic People’s Palace Slave trade through objects, paintings and a short walking tour of the Merchant City.

Wed 21 Mar* Development of Animation and Cinema Technology exploring the Kelvin Hall history of film and animation and providing ideas for classroom activities that bring traditional forms of animation to life. In partnership with National Library of Scotland

Wed 25 Apr & So you think you know Mackintosh? Delve deeper into the Part 1: Kelvingrove 2 May stories behind Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s art, designs and Part 2: Scotland Street architecture through this informative two-part tour. School Museum

Professional Learning for Teachers | 21 Teaching Resources Risk Assessments Feedback We are keen to ensure your museum All Glasgow Museums’ venues, and We welcome your feedback on any workshop is part of a coherent the activities that take place within of Glasgow Museums’ provision for learning experience for young people, them, have been risk assessed. The schools. If you have ideas, especially for those with additional risk assessment documentation cannot suggestions or questions get in touch: communication and language needs. be emailed out but copies are located Our pre-visit information sheets on site and, if required, can be made phone: 0141 276 9505/6 provide practical information to help available for inspection. Please note the email: museums.schoolbookings@ plan your visit and prepare your pupils assessments are not for each individual glasgowlife.org.uk for the objects and activities that they workshop, but for the types of activities @GlasgowMuseums will be engaging with. delivered by the Learning team. We are always happy to hear from you. Our newly updated Collections Navigator As teachers know their pupils best, we online database will be launched in the recommend that schools do their own Autumn. This will provide the public with risk assessment of their trip, and use the facility to explore our images and our pre-visit information sheets to help information relating to our collections inform this. through searches. A dedicated section for teachers will provide pre-prepared groups of objects relating to our key topics – an ideal resource to use back in school.

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