SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE WITH THE LEARNING PROGRAMME 2015 – 16 EARLY YEARS AND PRIMARY

“ One of the world’s 50 greatest galleries.”

The Times

CLORE LEARNING AWARD WINNER 2013

WELCOME The Hepworth Wakefield is an inspirational place to play and learn. Explore our exhibitions with your class through artist-led workshop sessions or self-directed visits.

For teachers wishing to lead their own visit, entrance to the gallery is free of charge, but booking is essential.

For full details of all our programmes, please visit our website:www.hepworthwakefield.org/learning

Want to speak to a member of our team? Please contact us at learning@hepworthwakefield.org or call 01924 247398.

THE FOLLOWING ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR USE, AND ARE BOOKABLE IN ADVANCE: • Tactile self-directed resources (find more

information in the GET PREPARED section)• Class-sized lockers • Indoor picnic area. OUTDOORS YOU CAN ALSO EXPLORE: • Adventure playground • Sculptures in the gallery garden.

GET GOING

RESOURCES (IN-GALLERY AND ONLINE)

Take a look at some of the resource kits you can borrow to support your self-led activity in the gallery:

• TEACHERS’ INFORMATION PACK (Download from our website) Practical information about your visit, including an overview of the gallery and collection, key themes and suggested activities.

• DRAWING AT THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD (Download from our website) Creative ideas for sketching and drawing your way around the galleries. Use in conjunction with the Art Kit.

• ART KIT (£10) A selection of materials that you can use in the galleries, providing clipboards, pencils and paper for up to 33 pupils.

• EARLY YEARS EXPLORER KIT (£5) Ride on the magic carpet and create stories using tactile objects, build your own sculptures using wooden shapes and make colourful window pictures. Use with up to 15 children at any one time.

• REG THE SENSORY SNAKE (£5) Naughty Reg has eaten shapes from the sculptures! Our sensory snake can be used to help your class navigate the galleries.

• EXPLORING SCULPTURE RESOURCE BAGS (£5) Using a range of materials to share ideas and experiences, explore imagination, relationships and meanings. Get thinking about sculpture and what informs and influences a sculptor when making work. Use with up to 33 pupils.

• SENSE OF PLACE RESOURCE BAGS (£5) Explore the gallery to make connections between artists, places and works of art. Contains viewfinders, binoculars, handling objects and landscape images to use with up to 33 pupils.

FIND OUT HOW WE CAN SUPPORT ARTS AWARD

We have a variety of ways we can support you as a teacher to take your students through their Discover, Explore and Bronze Arts Award in school and at the gallery. To find out more visit hepworthwakefield.org/learning/arts-award

For supporting notes and more information on all resources, please visit: hepworthwakefield.org/learning/teachers/teachers-resources

GET PREPARED

EARLY YEARS & PRIMARY ARTIST-LED WORKSHOPS OUR LEARNING TEAM INCLUDES ARTISTS WHO WORK IN THE FOLLOWING ART FORMS:

• Creative Writing • Drama • Drawing • Movement • Music • Printmaking • Sculpture.

EXPLORE, CREATE AND PLAY WITH YOUR EARLY YEARS AND PRIMARY GROUPS:

• All artist-led activities use the gallery as inspiration

• Artist-led sessions for Early Years groups last between 1 – 1.5 hours and can accommodate either 30 Reception children, or 15 younger children

• Primary artist-led sessions can be differentiated between KS1 & 2 and may be tailored to meet the needs of your group. Most sessions last 2 hours, and accommodate up to 33 children.

EARLY YEARS SESSIONS:

• Walking with Giants Explore the gallery through literacy, performance and den-building.

• Wiggle – Ping – Pop! Develop movement, sound and song that can be performed in the galleries.

PRIMARY SESSIONS – ART:

• Exploring 2D – 3D Investigate 2D and 3D artworks and develop your own drawings and sculptural forms. Choose your focus: Clay Modelling, Mixed Media Construction or Body Sculptures.

• Make Your Mark Fun drawing exercises that develop observational and communication skills.

• Sensory Landscapes Engage your senses and create mixed-media landscape artworks.

• Think, Ink, Print Create drawings and explore various printmaking processes.

• Fabulous Felt Make layered drawings and colourful felted fabrics, exploring shape, line and colour.

• Master the Plaster Explore Barbara Hepworth’s plasters to inspire your own plaster creations. Choose your focus: Bas-relief or Maquette Forms.

Full details and costs of our sessions can be found on our website: hepworthwakefield.org/learning

GET INSPIRED

All standard sessions cost from £100. Full details and costs of our sessions can be found on our website: hepworthwakefield.org/learning

PRIMARY SESSIONS – DRAMA & LITERACY:

• Once Upon a Time Develop characters, places and plots. Choose your focus: Drama or Creative Writing.

• Sensory Poems Devise and perform original poems through group work and creative thinking.

• The Day the Sculptures Came to Life Become reporters, eyewitnesses and the sculptures, and create a video broadcast capturing your big story.

PRIMARY SESSIONS – MUSIC:

• Geometric Soundscapes Develop graphic scores inspired by shapes, angles and colours and perform original musical compositions.

PRIMARY SESSIONS – EXPLORE ART:

• Explore & Create Explore our temporary exhibitions through looking, listening, discussion and debate. Choose a focus: Drawing, Sculpture or Drama.

SEN GROUPS

Contact us on 01924 247398 to discuss how we can tailor sessions to meet the needs of your group.

For dates and session details, please visit our website:hepworthwakefield.org/learning/teachers/CPD

The Hepworth Wakefield is committed to supporting teachers in preparation for visits and in skills development.

CREATIVE CAROUSEL TASTER DAY (FREE) 9.45am – 4pm, Autumn Term 2015 An action-packed day of tasters of our Primary artist-led sessions. Places are limited, please book in advance. For dates, please visit our website.

LOOK PLAN PLAY (FREE) 4 – 6pm, termly sessions, please visit our website for dates. Familiarise yourself with the gallery by joining the Learning Team for a tour, use our resource kits, and pick up ideas from other teachers. Please book in advance.

All-staff Look Plan Play sessions can be booked by contacting our Learning Team.

SKILL UP Practical, artist-led sessions designed to provide ideas and skills for the classroom, taking inspiration from our temporary exhibitions. Sessions run 1 – 3.30pm, and cost £20 per person. For dates and session details, please visit our website.

GALLERY-BASED INSET TRAINING SESSIONS Break free from the classroom with day-long INSET sessions for up to a maximum of 15 school staff, which will help to build staff confidence, develop new skills and increase creativity in the classroom through focused enrichment and development opportunities.

CREATIVE LEARNING NETWORK The network offers artists and teachers six sessions to meet, explore and exchange ideas in a creative environment. Run in partnership with Theatre Royal Wakefield. For membership info and network event dates, please visit our website.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS

GET DEVELOPED

THE YEAR AHEADHighlights of our exhibitions, displays and experimental programme in The Calder for the 2015 – 16 academic year*. Please visit our website for dates of exhibition opening:

AUTUMN TERM 2015 • Caro in Yorkshire • A Greater Freedom: Hepworth 1965 – 1975 • Plasters: Casts and Copies • Magali Reus (The Calder) • Des Hughes • Enrico David • Gertrude Hermes

SPRING TERM 2016 • Living Today: Kettle’s Yard & The Hepworth Wakefield Collaboration • Martin Parr • A Greater Freedom: Hepworth 1965 – 1975 • Plasters: Casts and Copies

SUMMER TERM 2016 • Stanley Spencer.

* Correct at time of going to print. Please visit our website for details on upcoming exhibitions. Posters for all of our exhibitions will be available to download from our website. Please visit: hepworthwakefield.org/learning

PLANNING YOUR VISITAll visits must be booked two weeks in advance. Submit an online enquiry form by visiting hepworthwakefield.org/learning/teachers/ how-to-book and you’ll be contacted by our team to confirm your visit.

OPENING HOURS: • 10am – 5pm, Tuesday to Sunday • Closed Mondays, except Wakefield district

school holidays and bank holiday Mondays.

GETTING HERE: • Situated close to the M1, with Leeds, Sheffield

and Manchester within an hour’s drive• There is a coach drop-off point on Gallery

Walk – by arrangement at time of booking. A pay and display coach park can be found on Quebec Street (WF2 9SA), just 3 minutes’ drive from the gallery

• We are just 1 mile from Wakefield Westgate train station, and less than 10 minutes’ walk from Wakefield Kirkgate train station.

GET PLANNING

WIN A SPARKLING CREAM TEA

We know how hard-working teachers are, so we’d like to reward you by offering you the chance to win one of three available sparkling afternoon teas, for two people, to be enjoyed in our gallery café on a date of your choice during the Autumn Term.

To enter the competition, simply email learning@hepworthwakefield.org with the title ‘Hepworth Cream Tea for Me’ in the email subject by Thursday 15 October, letting us know your name, the name school that you work at, email address and contact number.

Winners will be drawn at random on Friday 16 October, and winners will be notified by Monday 19 October.

Good luck!

Competition Rules:•Only one entry per person.•Competition entries must be received by 11.59pm on Thursday 15 October 2015.•No cash alternative available.•Cream Tea prizes must be claimed by 31 De-cember 2015, and arranged with the Learning Team in advance of a visit to the gallery.

Any further questions? Contact the Learning Team to find out more:

The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery Walk Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 5AW

T: 01924 247398 E: learning@hepworthwakefield.org W: hepworthwakefield.org/learning

@HepworthGallery #HepworthLearn

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Illustrations by Sumo. Photography by Hannah Webster, Nick Singleton & David Lindsay