Diploma 14-19

Laurence Stephen ('L.S.') Lowry
by Laurence Stephen ('L.S.') Lowry
1938
NPG L224

A combined Visual Art and Performing Art Project

Sessions are adaptable to all exam boards and levels of the Diploma and to other Performing Arts qualifications for 14 - 19 years olds such as BTEC in Performing Arts.

A visit to the Gallery for this free half-day session can inspire a project back in school or college in any of the performing arts. During the visit, students choose four or five portraits to stimulate their creative performance work. The Gallery pre-selects two of the characters, and students are encouraged to select the remaining characters.  Looking in detail at the stories and personalities of possible characters through portraiture, the students make their own final choices, with reasons, from the early twentieth-century galleries. The performance created after this visit would use some or all of these characters to develop a theme inspired by their lives (see also videoconferencing below).

• Maximum 25 students
• 90 minutes - 2 hours

Creative Characters Performance Workshop

Combine the half-day Gallery session Performance: Creative Characters with a practical opera/music theatre workshop at the National Portrait Gallery led by composers from English Touring Opera.  The first of these whole-day visits will stimulate the creation of your students' performing arts piece.  At the end of the project students return to perform their work in the National Portrait Gallery's Ondaatje Wing Theatre.

For full details of days, times and costs please call English Touring Opera on 020 7833 2555 or email alexa.hills@englishtouringopera.org.uk well in advance of your proposed visit.

• Maximum 15 students

Duration: Two sessions from 10.30-15.30 at the National Portrait Gallery, approximately a week apart, plus an additional half-day or day with English Touring Opera in school or college. 

Performance Videoconferencing

If your school/college has videoconferencing facilities, share your completed performance with Gallery staff.  The work initiated in a  half-day Creative Characters session at the Gallery and then developed in school or college can be completed by a videconference with your students showing their final performance and explaining how they made their creative characters.

Face of Fashion

Campaign Study Days

Supporting Level 2 Campaign (Edexcel Unit 5), Promoting Products Performances and Ideas (OCR Unit 2) & Promotion and Review (AQUA Unit 7)

23 February 2009
Study Day for 14 -16

24 February 2009-06-24
Study Day for 16 +

2 March 2010
Study Day for 14 -16

3 March 2010
Study Day for 16+

ALL 10.15 - 15.00 with a break for lunch (not provided)

Offering students the chance to learn what it takes to conduct a successful campaign, these Study Days are a comprehensive introduction to Campaign Unit. Focusing on how the National Portrait Gallery promoted the successful Face of Fashion exhibition in 2007, students work with the Gallery's Marketing Officer to examine messages, ideas, methods and aims of the award-winning campaign. Students work in groups to to develop their own Campaign to market a Gallery exhibition. Assigned materials and roles, the groups are set a challenge in the style of the TV programme The Apprentice, gaining the inspiration and expertise to develop their own Campaign, record entries in their Process Portfolio and generate ideas for their Student Project. 

Campaign CPD

Continuing Professional Development days to support teachers delivering Unit 5 Campaign Level 2 (Edexcel) and other equivalent exam units (including Applied GCSE, A-Level &

2 February 2010
10.30 - 15.00 with a break for lunch (not provided)

A full day course allowing teachers to build their own understanding and expertise on how an institution such as National Portrait Gallery conducts a campaign to successfully promote the major 2007 exhibition Face of Fashion. Teachers meet Staff from the Gallery's Marketing, Exhibitions, Visitor Services and Learning Departments and examine what it takes to conduct a successful campaign. The day offers teachers teaching this unit the chance to learn how students can learn from industry by focusing on creative approaches and sharing best practice.

Setting it Up: Photography and Set Design workshop

To support Level 2: Units 1, 3 & Level 3: Unit 1 (Edexcel)

February 2010
Mon 8/Tues 9/Wed 10/Thurs 11/Fri 12

ALL 10.00 - 16.00 with a break for lunch (not provided)

Introducing students to professional artists working in set design and photography, students observe processes and outcomes, skills and approaches. Gathering inspiration from the permanent collection, students work in teams to create their own set designs before photographing them in a studio setting.

Props, Settings and Symbols Gallery Tour

To support Level 2 unit 5 (Edexcel)

Explore artists' use of props, settings and symbols within portraiture and investigate possible meanings, representations and intentions. Responding to a wide range of learning models including object association and interactive approaches, students are inspired by specific works in the Gallery, developing individual thinking and ideas.

• 1 ½ hours
• Maximum 25 students
• Available whenever the necessary Gallery rooms and staff are available

Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury; Mrs Thrale)
by Unknown Italian artist
1785-1786
NPG 4942

The National Portrait Gallery houses the ideal display for studying changing fashions in hair and beauty over the last five centuries.  

History of Hair and Beauty

Links to the Hair and Beauty Diploma AQA Level 2 Unit 5 and Edexcel Level 2, Unit 2.5  

Use portraiture as a context to examine traditions, innovations and decisions behind the history of hair and beauty. Discover why make-up could kill its wearers, mice nested in eighteenth-century women's hair and how the eradication of smallpox led to a more natural look.

• Maximum 25 students
• 1 hour
• Available as a slide talk in the Ondaatje Wing Theatre or after 3.00pm as a Gallery talk
  
• Follow-up webquest: 14-19 Diploma History of Hair and Beauty