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MaxLiteracy Awards 2020-2021 Programme Statement
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Case studies of MAXLiteracy in action
Teacher? Parent or carer? Gallery educator? Writer looking to work in education?
Leeds Art Gallery
Key Stage 1 and 2 (ages 5 – 11)
An original painting, On the Move by Jack Butler Yeats, is loaned to a local primary school where it stimulates ideas for colour, poetry, music and public performance.
- art on loan
- families
- poetry
Manchester Art Gallery
Key Stages 3 & 4 (ages 11 – 16)
A historic painting acts as the visual stimulus to help secondary pupils develop confidence in meeting the challenges of the new English GCSE.
- art literacy
- GCSE
- National curriculum
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Key Stage 3 (ages 11 – 14)
A major exhibition is the stimulus for bookmaking, guided writing, printing and random poetry, and an alternative audio guide for the venue is voiced by year 7 students.
- exhibition
- mixed ability
- visual impairment