Powerpoint and videos to plan an active workshop that combines making with thinking about symbolism. This workshop draws on the peace image, protest, making your voice heard and creative art. The idea is to make a wall of debate, hope and working together to combine different ideas. Walls built to exclude people can be subverted and have been (and are) used for protest art. This workshop could be done over the course of a day or over 2-3 afternoons. It incorporates archive material from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and related personal archives held at the Library of the London School of Economics (LSE). The videos are made by artist Becci Kenning and based on a project we carried out in primary schools during 2019. Who is it for: Upper Key Stage 2 – Year 5 or 6. Year 4 can do this but may need more help with the first section. Cross-Curriculum Links & Learning Outcomes: ● Retrieve information from text, widen reading, understand and make slogans, distinguish between fact and opinion, gives justifications for decisions made (English) ● Understanding symbols and how to use them – encouraging participation in politics and thinking critically and debate (Citizenship). ● Making connections from the ancient world (Egypt) to the modern (History) ● Working individually and then together (PSE). ● Practical task of constructing a wall, using tools and understanding function and aesthetic qualities (Design and Technology). ● Using different materials (Art and Design) This lesson has been developed in conjunction with a European Research Council grant titled Gendered Peace, located in the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. This grant takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide new understandings of the spectrum of peace and conflict, while centring a gender analysis.

These lessons draw on an historical epidemic and think about how we remember it as a way to explore and allow expression of children’s experiences of the coronavirus. They draw on a historical scrapbook in the LSE Library and recorded conversations with academics on peoples’ experiences of the pandemic from around the world. It is part of a project with a pilot school and the LSE Festival. The lessons embed Recovery Curriculum principles through encouraging discussion and reflection – these could be expanded in live online sessions or in the classroom when children return to school. It is an interdisciplinary mix of history, visual literacy, art / craft and PSHE. It is aimed at upper Key Stage 2 – Years 5 & 6 – but could be adapted for early KS3 Year 7. Includes 3 videos to explain art techniques in scrapbooking - collage, text, mapping - along with some examples. Outcomes: • Learn about the 1918-20 Influenza Epidemic and understand that epidemics happened in history • To understand that people were emotionally affected by events, such as influenza, in the past. • To introduce forms of remembering around loss, e.g. war memorials, and historic events • To enable the children to express their feelings about change in routine and freedom during the lockdown through art • To recognise attachment and the importance of relationships, whether in a family, in a class, with friends or more short-term ones, like with health care providers or people doing deliveries • To reassure children that worries and anxious feelings are shared and normal • To individually and as a community, remember what is happening and create a message of hope for the future • To build resilience. There are resources and links listed at the end of these notes, plus a worksheet produced by an artist for each lesson to help children record their experiences of lockdown and the pandemic. This is a pilot project so any feedback in the review section would be welcome.