School Workshops

Our award winning workshops promote visual literacy and are designed to get children looking, thinking and speaking about art. 

These classroom-based workshops use art to extend learning across the primary curriculum.  They are suitable for art and design topics, and they also complement learning in a range of foundation subjects including history, geography and science.  

Each interactive session uses elements of dialogue, drama, soundscape, slow looking and creative writing to bring artworks to life.   

Sessions last 60 minutes for Y2-6 and 45 minutes for YR-Y1.  The cost is £60 per session in all state maintained schools; book 4 for the cost of 3. 

Magic Lantern was awarded with a JM Barrie Member’s Award by Action for Children’s Arts for “25 years of helping people to observe and explore the world around them and to think creatively and critically through a series of art history workshops”.

  • Linked brilliantly to our Science and Art! Aspirational - not many, if any of our children have looked in depth at artwork in a gallery so it opened up a new world for some, especially with an expert voice.

    Teacher, Bristol Primary School

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Workshop Topics

Art and Design

  • Architecture

  • Colour

  • Painting

  • Pattern

  • Portraits & Self Portraits

  • Photography

  • Sculpture

Artists & Art Movements

  • Abstract Art

  • British Artists

  • Henry Moore

  • Impressionism

  • Pop Art

  • Street Art

  • Surrealism

  • Vincent Van Gogh

  • Women Artists

Science

  • Living Things and Their Habitats

  • Earth and Space

  • Forces and Motion

  • Mini-beasts

  • Light and Dark

  • Plants

  • Water

  • Weather and Seasons

  • Under the Sea

English

  • Myths & Legends

  • Painting a Story

History

  • Ancient Egypt

  • Ancient Greece

  • Black Identities & Art

  • Fire of London

  • Kingdom of Benin

  • Maya Civilisation

  • Stone Age

  • The Romans

  • The Tudors

  • The Victorians

  • The Vikings

  • World War I

  • World War II

Geography

  • Earth Matters (Sustainability)

  • Europe

  • Islands

  • Frozen Landscapes

  • North America

  • Passport to the World

  • Rainforests

  • South America

R.E.

  • The Christmas Story

  • The Easter Story

  • World Religions in Art

Maths

  • Numbers 1-20

  • Shape, Space & Measure

Other Topics

  • Come to the Circus

  • Feelings

  • Five Senses

  • Food in Art

  • Toys

Please contact us if there is a topic you would like which is not listed.