Architect’s Apprentice

Art & Design, History

Students become architects, designers, and engineers as they explore how light, space, and design influence structures. They will observe shapes, patterns, and features throughout the Manor, drawing inspiration from Sir John Soane’s designs. Through hands-on activities, students will design and build creative structures while developing problem-solving, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.

KS1 CURRICULUM LINKS:

• Art: Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products. Explore the work of artists and architects, comparing and making connections with their own work.
• History: Explore significant historical events, people, and places in their locality.
• Design & Technology: Develop and share ideas through talking, drawing, and model-making. Build structures while exploring strength and stability, use tools and materials for practical tasks like cutting and joining, and evaluate products against design criteria.
• Maths: Identify and name common 2D and 3D shapes, relate them to everyday objects, and recognise shapes in different orientations and sizes.

KS2 CURRICULUM LINKS:

• Art: Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products, while learning about great artists, architects, and designers in history.
• History: Explore the legacy of Greek and Roman architecture and its influence on British history, particularly the locality.
• Design & Technology: Understand how key events and individuals have shaped design history. Develop design ideas using sketches, prototypes, and models. Evaluate designs using criteria and peer feedback.
• Maths: Recognise and draw 2D shapes, create 3D shapes with modeling materials, identify horizontal, vertical, perpendicular, and parallel lines, compare angles to a right angle, and recognise symmetry in diagrams.

Every Vase Tell a Story

Art & Design, History

Led by artist and storyteller Judy Preece, students will learn of Sir John Soane’s Grand Tour of Europe, explore the Manor inspired by Soane’s visits to ruins of opulent Classical temples from the Roman period across Italy, and have the opportunity to design their own Classical vase with their own story, based on an explorative tour of Pitzhanger Manor.  

KS1 CURRICULUM LINKS:

• Art & Design: Use inspiration to creatively design a product, exploring the work of artists and architects, comparing and making connections with their own work.
• History: Learn about significant historical people and places in their locality.

KS2 CURRICULUM LINKS:

• Art & Design: Improve mastery of art and design techniques. Learn about great artists and architects, and the cultural development of their work.
• History: Explore the legacy of Greek and Roman culture, including art and architecture, and its influence on British history, particularly in the locality.

Explore With Eliza

Art & Design, History

Join Eliza Soane, beloved wife of Sir John Soane, on a fun-filled tour of the house in which she once lived. The various spaces of the Manor and its Grounds come alive with activities and games exploring what life was like in this historic house over 200 years ago!

KS1 CURRICULUM LINKS:

• Art & Design: Use inspiration to creatively design a product, exploring the work of artists and architects, comparing and making connections with their own work.
• History: Learn about significant historical people and places in their locality.

KS2 CURRICULUM LINKS:

• Art & Design: Improve mastery of art and design techniques. Learn about great artists and architects, and the cultural development of their work.
• History: Study an aspect of history or a site dating from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the locality. (Georgian-Victorian/Industrial revolution).

Art as Inspiration

Art & Design

What is inspiration and how can art inspire us? Led by an experienced artist facilitator, students will explore the work of contemporary artists with a particular focus on our Gallery exhibition(s) to gain inspiration and then create their own art works!

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:

• 23 January – 23 February | Matt Small: Pride of England
• 5 March – 1 June 2025 | Alison Watt: From Light

KS1 CURRICULUM LINKS:

• Art & Design: Discover the work of a range of artists and architects. Learn to respond to art by describing, comparing and making links to their own creations. Use imagination, a range of materials and mediums to design and make products. Develop a  range of art and design skills using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

KS2 CURRICULUM LINKS:

• Art & Design:  Improve mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials.  Showing ideas, experiences and individual flair in design and creating. Learn about great artists, architects and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.