KS1

A large red granite lid of sarcophagus. There are three images of people carved into the granite, standing up. The central figure is male and protrudes from the lid, facing the viewer. His arms are crossed across his chest and he wears a beard, headpiece, and crown of feathers and horns. The two women either side of him face him and have their hands on his waist. The lid is broken on the right, and the side and the feet have been filled in in white plaster.

Teaching Activities

Read an object: Ramesses III’s coffin

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Springtime by Claude Monet, painted in 1886

Fact Sheets: Impressionism

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Teaching Activities

Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

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A photograph of a small mummified cat, in brown wrappings, with little ears poking up.

Teaching Activities

Ask an Expert: Ancient Egypt and Greece

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Teaching Activities

Ancient Greek myths

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A painting of the Virgin Mary and Joseph gathered around the baby Jesus, inside a stable. In the background, the Magi are en route to the stable and the light of an angel shines brightly over some shepherds on a hill.

The Nativity

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A portrait painting of a worried woman, leaning away from a man who is whispering in her ear through a window. Behind her, through the window, some people lean over a card table, gambling.

Fact Sheets: Reading Paintings

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A photograph of a section of a highly sculpted marble coffin, showing a person riding a chariot as well as two centaurs, as well as people relaxing and eating all across the top.

Teaching Activities

Read an object: the Pashley sarcophagus

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A painting of a woman in blue, sitting in a cushioned chair, reading a small book.There is a table next to her with a cup on it. The woman has long dark hair falling behind her back.

Fact Sheets: Portraits

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A photograph of a section of a highly sculpted marble coffin, showing a person riding a chariot as well as two centaurs, as well as people relaxing and eating all across the top.

Fact Sheets: Ancient Greece

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A photograph of a small mummified cat, in brown wrappings, with little ears poking up.

Fact Sheets: Ancient Egypt

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A photograph of the artwork Shadow Play, by Bridget Riley. The artwork consists of tens of diagonal stripes in different colours of blues, yellows, greens, pinks, and greys.

Shadowplay

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A photograph of a ceramic bowl made by artist Elspeth Owen.

Bowl

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A large red granite lid of sarcophagus. There are three images of people carved into the granite, standing up. The central figure is male and protrudes from the lid, facing the viewer. His arms are crossed across his chest and he wears a beard, headpiece, and crown of feathers and horns. The two women either side of him face him and have their hands on his waist. The lid is broken on the right, and the side and the feet have been filled in in white plaster.

Ramesses III

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a glass mosque lamp decorated with blue, and red calligraphy and symbols

Mosque Lamp

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Flowers in a glass vase

Flowers in a glass vase

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Wepwawetemhat’s coffin fragment

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an oval miniature painting of Queen Elizabeth I wearing a gold dress, white ruff and jewels.

Tudor Miniatures – Queen Elizabeth I

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An American Flamingo drawn and hand painted in its habitat for a book called Birds of America

American flamingo from Birds of America

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A snowy secene of a house and some trees painted by Camille Pissarro

Piette’s House at Montfoucault

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A painting of a dressmaker fitting a white dress to a lady. painted by Marie Louise von Motesïczky

At the Dressmaker’s

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A mannequin dressed in a medieval suit of armour sits on a lifesize horse model, which is also dressd in armour

Armour

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a pair of hand thrown stone ware sculptures painted and stained by Shawnada Corbettt

Candy Lady pair by Shawanda Corbett

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A carbved wooden figure of Guanyin the God(dess) of Mercy covered in gold lacquer

A figure of Guanyin God(dess) of Mercy

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A painting showing a couple and there baby in a ship making a voyage across the sea painted by Ford Madox Brown

The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown

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Fact Sheets: Renaissance

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A penny stamped with ' Votes for women' across the front

“Votes for Women” coin

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A display case with levels showing manay mini eye idols created by the artist Issam Kourbaj craved from Syrian Soap

Eye Idols by Issam Kourbaj

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Elizabeth Vernon

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A painting of two identical young women, in similar smart coats and neckties. One holds a hat and the other holds a riding crop, and to the bottom left of the portrait sits a wiry-haired sighthound.

The Twins by John Everett Millais

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A painting by Renoir of a meadow and gust of wind blowing clouds

A Gust of Wind by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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A green ceramic stoneware water jar. It is decorated with animals. This side shows a lizard, scorpion and fish.

Water Jar by Ladi Kwali

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Rocks at Port-Coton, Lion Rock painted by Claude Monet

Rocks at Port-Coton, The Lion Rock

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A photograph of a sculpture called Minoan Head made by Barbara Hepworth. It is a tall white marble abstract sculpture with a hole in the middle, going all the way through. The shape is like a cuboid in shape, with rounded edges. The right side has three lines carved into it, perpendicular coming down.

Minoan Head

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oil sketch of the sky with a shaft of sunlight coming through the clouds

Cloud study with a shaft of sunlight

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Springtime by Claude Monet, painted in 1886

Springtime by Claude Monet

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(Parts of the) Book of the Dead of Ramose Unknown maker, Egypt 1300 BCE

The Book of the Dead of Ramose

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inner section of Pakepu's coffin, a water pourer from Thebes, showing a scarab beetle

Scarab Beetle

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Bust of Antinous

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Mummy board from the coffin set of Nespawershefyt

The coffin set of Nespawershefyt

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Caryatid from the temple of Demeter

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Cupid and Psyche

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Teaching Activities

Making an ancient Greek pot

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Pakepu’s coffin set

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Ancient Greek Pot

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Two plastic suitcases pictured open ad full of images, tools and guidance on science in art.

Science in the Artist’s Studio Loan Box

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Three children sketching whilst looking at paintings in a museum gallery.

On site session

Stories in Art for KS1

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A woman and a girl look at a portrait on a screen together.

On site OR online session

Looking at Art: people and portraits

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On site session

Bespoke Teacher CPD

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A school class learning in the ancient Egyptian galleries, in front of the large coffin lid of King Ramesses III

On site OR online session

Ancient Egyptian People

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A photograph of a section of a highly sculpted marble coffin, showing a person riding a chariot as well as two centaurs, as well as people relaxing and eating all across the top.

On site OR online session

The Ancient Greeks

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Teaching Activities

In the Tomb

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A collage of six images of museum objects or paintings related to water. There is a photograph of the skeleton of a whale, a photo of a set of antlers, a painting of waves crashing on a jetty and three photos of different sculptures: one of a human, one of an animal, and one with the head and arms of a person and the bottom half of a fish, lying on their front.

Remote resource

Inspire Nature: Water

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A collage of six images, each showing objects or paintings all relating to skies in some way. One is of a painted mask, one is of a wooden compass on string, one is a painting of clouds.

Remote resource

Inspire Nature: Skies

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A collage of six images. Two are paintings of volcanoes, one is of some gravel, one is of an arrangement of pebbles, one is a flint hand-axe and the last one is a wooden model with squiggly metal lines.

Remote resource

Inspire Nature: Rocks

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Inspire Nature: Viewpoints

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Inspire Nature: Trees

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