Videoconferencing
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Key Stage 3 to 5 Videoconferencing brings National Portrait Gallery portraits and staff into your school. Our videoconferences are lively discussions between your pupils and our Gallery educators, engaging in ideas around history, art and citizenship through portraiture. Please note that all sessions can be booked only through Global Leap, not directly by the National Portrait Gallery. See www.global-leap.org for the current videoconferencing schedule. Please state on your booking form which topic you require of those on offer for any particular day. Please also read our tips for having a successful videoconference with us (see Booking information) |
Booking:
 Bookings for all sessions should be made via www.global-leap.org. Please note, bookings are not taken directly by the Gallery.
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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
by David Stefan Mach
1999
NPG 6494
Art
The Modern Portrait
Looking closely at a selection of twentieth and twenty-first century portraits painted in different styles, students are encouraged to express their personal opinions about the range of styles from realism to more abstract works.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
- Follow-up webquest: KS3 Art Beyond Portraits
Self-Portraiture
Self-portraiture is the ideal approach for artists to display their skills, reveal more about themselves and experiment with new ideas. Students are encouraged to think about their own experiences of creating self-portraits, through looking at a selection of images in different media from various periods.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum
30 students
- Follow-up webquest: KS3 Art Talking Techniques
King Henry VIII
after Hans Holbein the Younger
(circa 1536)
NPG 157
History
Tudors
Examining three or four portraits as historical evidence, this session can be tailored towards early Tudor or Elizabethan portraiture or focus on the changing image of Queen Elizabeth I. Please specify when booking.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
- Follow-up webquest: KS3 History Elizabeth I's New Portrait
Stuarts
This session questions the reliability of images as historical sources through looking at selected images of key figures in the Civil War, and the decades preceding it.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
- Follow-up webquest: KS3 History Cavaliers and Roundheads
Queen Victoria
replica by Sir George Hayter
1863 (1838)
NPG 1250
Britain 1815 - 1851
Students explore the changes of this period through looking at the large-scale painting of the Reformed 1833 House of Commons, images of key political and social figures, and portraits technological innovators connected with developing the railways. Students assess the achievements of individual sitters and consider the role played by portraiture in reflecting old and new values and aspirations.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
Victorians
How were images, including of Queen Victoria, constructed to give powerful propaganda messages about Britain and its relationship with the wider world?
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
Votes for Women
Students analyse portraits of key figures, male and female, in both the suffrage and the anti-suffrage movements in this practical session. Students predict from the sitter's self-presentation which movement they are likely to fall into, testing their hypotheses against quotations from the sitter.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
- Follow-up webquest: KS3 History Votes for Women
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant)
by Albert Charles Challen
1869
NPG 6856
History and Science
Medicine through Time
Session relates to the SHP GCSE unit on Medicine through Time and also to the QCA KS3 Science Schemes of Work, Unit 8C, ‘Microbes and Disease'.
Analysing portraits of key medical pioneers and patients as sources of historical evidence. Select two focus areas:
- Bleeding and blood circulation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (including William Harvey)
- Inoculation and vaccination in the eighteenth century (including Mary Wortley Montagu and Edward Jenner)
- Women in nineteenth century medicine (including Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole)
- Medical advances and World War II (including Alexander Fleming)
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
Citizenship
Britain - a Diverse Society?
Students bring to this session pictures of six famous contemporary people who they feel together represent the diversity of Britain today, and check the Gallery's website to see if any of their selection are represented in the Gallery's Collection. The session looks at the representation of diversity in three or four paintings from the contemporary galleries as well the students' own choices.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
Trade Unionists
by Hans Schwarz
1984
NPG 5749
Cross Curricular: History / Citizenship
The Abolition of Slavery
This session looks at portraits of some of the key characters and events in the British struggle to abolish slavery. The roles played by the different groups of people are discussed: British men, women, and freed slaves. Students assess the historical significance of the different abolitionists and decide which they feel would provide the best role model for campaigning on a human rights issue today.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
- Follow-up webquest: KS3 History Heroes of Abolition
Images of Power: From Divine Right to Democracy
This session traces the process of establishing parliamentary democracy in Britain by looking at images from three different periods - the reign of Charles I and the Interregnum, the House of Commons in 1833 and a selection of recent and present day politicians.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 30 students
Creative and Media Diploma - Performance: Creative Characters
Students who have already visited the National Portrait Gallery for a Performance: Creative Characters workshop can showcase their finished performance, explaining which portraits they took as their starting point and how they developed their work.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 25 students
Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury; Mrs Thrale)
by Unknown Italian artist
1785-1786
NPG 4942
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.
- 45 minutes to 1 hour
- One class - maximum 25 students
- Follow-up webquest: 14-19 Diploma History of Hair and Beauty
Videoconferencing CPD
CPD sessions on videoconferencing are available on selected Thursdays from 16.00 to 17.00 for teachers from Secondary schools and colleges, including departments or groups of teachers.
