Age 10 to 11 (KS2), Age 11 to 14 (KS3)
Art, Battle of Britain, Food and Rationing, Health and Wellbeing, Home Front, Medicine, Source Analysis, The Blitz, Trenches, Western Front, Women in Wartime
Booking Information
Choose from the following topics
What can we learn about war and how we think of war? How does war influence artists, photographers and designers?
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First World War
Students will learn about the trenches of the Western Front, medicine, propaganda and censorship of the First World War through the perspective of artists, photographers and designers.
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Second World War
Students will learn about life on the Home Front during the Second World War, and the propaganda that shaped the lives of everyone who lived through the war.
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Art & Design
Students will explore how war shaped the work of artists, photographers, and designers and how they influenced war and conflict.
About the programme
This 90-minute session will begin in the Clore Learning Centre, where an expert IWM facilitator will introduce students to your chosen subject theme (either First World War, Second World War or Art & Design) and demonstrate how to use the iPad app to navigate around the galleries.
Working in groups of three, students will then make their way to the galleries and use the app to unlock the learning experience, supported by an IWM facilitator throughout.
By engaging in careful observation, critical analysis, and interactive AR gameplay, students will gain a contextual understanding of wartime experiences and the media and techniques artists have used to portray them. As they move through the gallery, students will craft a digital journal using newfound knowledge and perspectives, drawing from IWM’s digital collections.
This journal will be emailed to teachers to take back to the classroom, which paired with additional learning resources IWM provides, can serve as a valuable part of a longer term school project.
National Curriculum Links
Key Stage 3 History:
- Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day.
- Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts.
- Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Key Stage 3 Art & Design:
- Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design.
- Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
- Know about the history of art, craft, design and architecture, including periods, styles and major movements from ancient times up to the present day.
Testimonials
'Artists & War: The Whole Picture helps students understand sources and interpretation – how history is constructed.' - Key Stage 3 Teacher
'Students begin to think outside of the box. They develop a keen eye for detail and it’s a fun way to learn about history and art!' - Key Stage 3 Teacher
'Students were engaged from the get-go.' - Key Stage 3 Teacher
About the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries
Showcasing the experiences and innovations of artists, filmmakers and photographers, these galleries explore the complex tension between creativity and destruction.
Discover how visual practitioners are also powerful narrators who shape how we think and feel about conflict, and the role art, film and photography plays to influence public opinion.
Over 500 works on display reflect the seismic social, cultural and political changes across the 20th and 21st centuries, and the individual perspectives of their makers.
Sponsors and Partners
This programme is supported by a grant from Bloomberg.
