AccessArt has been delighted to have worked with Kate Noble, Miranda Stern, Alison Ayres, Sarah Villis and Holly Morrison, from the Fitzwilliam Museum Learning Team, to inspire primary school teachers to use Museum Collections to support their learners’ learning and creative development.
This series aims to help teachers feel confident in working within museum spaces by engaging with objects and sharing ideas. We hope you can take ideas from this project and transfer them to your own setting. This may be helpful for anyone taking part in Take One Picture.
Below you will find a series of activities used as part of the Inspire 20202 Programme to explore Jacopo del Sellaio’s painting ‘The Story of Cupid and Psyche‘, starting with CPD for teachers run by AccessArt and the Fitzgerald Gallery in Cambridge, followed by a series of resources exploring the impact of the project in schools.
The Story of Cupid and Psyche, by Jacopo del Sellaio
inspire project goals
This programme aimed to enable the development of confidence, knowledge and creative thinking in teachers and learners with a particular focus on:
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Confidence in working within museum spaces, responding to museum objects, sharing ideas, and advocating for art and design in school settings.
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The development of skills and knowledge needed to plan and deliver high-quality cross-curricular experiences and projects inspired by museum objects, using a child-led, enquiry-based learning approach.
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Employing various creative responses, such as talking, drawing, mark-making, modeling, moving, and writing, to develop imaginative, collaborative, and reflective approaches in response to the object or collection being explored.
Inspire: Teacher CPD
Talking Points: The Story of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio
Introduction for Participating Teachers and Educators
Introducing Egg tempera
Inspired: Learners
Inspired! Psyche’s Resilience by The Fitzy Peters
INSPIRED! ‘THE TREE’ AT HAUXTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
INSPIRED! RE-CREATING CUPID AND PSYCHE AT LINTON HEIGHTS
Inspired! Making at Linton Heights Junior School
AccessArt Resources To Help Explore Artworks…
warm-ups
AccessArt Drawing Prompt Cards
Ten Minutes, Five Times a Week
Feeling Through Drawing
sketchbooks
Sketchbooks in Primary Schools
Developing Your Sketchbook Approach
Making Sketchbooks at the Fitzwilliam Museum
storyboards
AccessArt Collection: Resources which Support Literacy
Drawing Storyboards with Children by Paula Briggs
Illustrating Stories: Creating a Storyboard and First Dummy Book
Illustrating ‘The Jabberwocky’
Page to Panel – How to Make Manga
colour
Colour Wheel for Infants and Juniors
EXPLORING PRIMARY COLOURS and PAINT
Exploring Watercolour at the Fitzwilliam Museum
How to Make Drawings Inspired by Degas
composition and collage
GATHERING MARKS AND TEARING PAPER
FROM DRAWING TO COLLAGE TO CASTING
Relief Printmaking at Ridgefield Primary School
3 Dimensions
AccessArt Collection: Houses, Homes and Architecture
MAKING SCULPTURAL INTERPRETATIONS OF 18TH CENTURY PORTRAITS AT THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM
Making a Lyre Inspired by the Ancient Greeks
Exploring Subject Matter
The Figure
AccessArt Collection: Drawing from a Live Model
Self Portraiture Photography by Anna Linch
Spotting Potential and Nurturing a Young Talent
Nature and Landscapes
Layers in the Landscape by Emma Davies
Wax Resist Autumn Leaves by Rosie James
AccessArt Collection: Trees, Forest and Landscape
