This is a teaching pack with ideas for busy teachers who are considering using the art work of LS Lowry - a UK artist - as part of a specific project on different artists or are looking for ideas to support students’ writing generally. Alternatively, the pack can be used as a stand alone theme perhaps to use at the start or end of a busy term / academic year. The pack contains ideas for writing, art and design and drama and include high quality examples of students’ work produced as a result of using the ideas the pack contains. The activities lend themselves also to a whole school theme.

This pack contains ideas and suggestions as to how some of the art work of Edward Hopper (a famous American artist of the 20th century) could be used to promote effective learning in English and art and design. The activities are more geared towards the upper primary and secondary age pupils, although some of the suggestions in terms of exploring ‘Lighthouses’ could be adapted towards lower primary aged pupils. The unit as a teaching pack on Hopper could be used in depth. Alternatively, the pack could be used to ‘dip in and out of’ given the structure of the school’s Academic Year. I am sure you will find the pack useful and your students will, I am sure, produce some interesting work as a result of the stimulus.

A teaching pack contains examples of creative ways to explore Maurice Sendak’s novel, ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. The pack offers cross-curricular suggestions and activities that are engaging and help to promote learning and hence progress. The pack provides many ideas, used and tested in classrooms, that will help the teacher to explore over a period of time, or as a mini-project such as starting or ending a new semester. The pack also contains many examples of work produced by pupils of all ages and from different parts of the world that demonstrate clearly that the activities provide a rich source of engagement, learning and fun for students of all ages and backgrounds.

This pack provides creative ideas for using the art work of Edward Munch to provide activities to promote learning in English, and art and design. There are no photo copiable worksheets as such to use but given the ideas within the pack you should, if necessary be able to devise your own. There are plenty of examples of students’ work to illuminate the range of activities highlighted. I have used the work of Munch often to stimulate learning and be assured, if planned well, it never fails to stimulate pupils’ imagination.