For this session we took the learning outside the classroom and visited Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

Not being in the university classrooms made the learning more stimulating and engaging from the offset. As student teachers we were there to learn the benefits of taking children to art galleries. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum offer many educational sessions for nursery, primary and secondary school classes. These sessions cover all areas of the curriculum. Before visiting the gallery I was not aware of this information.

As a group we got to witness a group of primary children taking part in a session about the ancient Egyptians. The children all seemed engaged and were loving the opportunities to hold real life artefacts. We also got the chance to handle Victorian artefacts and try and guess what they were (which I admit I was not very good at).

My favourite part of the visit was getting the opportunity to create my own version of the floating heads that are displayed within the gallery.

 

 

We were given step by step instructions of how to create them but encouraged to use our artistic passion and creativity so they differed from our peers.

 

 

I found this session really informative and was impressed at the amount of sessions available to school children. I can definitely see the benefit of taking school children here as I believe it would not only be engaging while the children are in the gallery but also when they return back to school.