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'Take One Picture', the National Gallery's scheme to promote the visual arts in the primary school curriculum, is now online. This year's 'Take One Picture' exhibition, inspired by Canaletto's painting of 'The Stonemason's Yard' (about 1727-28), opens today in Room 1 at the National Gallery. See it, and find out more about the scheme at www.takeonepicture.org.
The newly expanded and enhanced site contains easy-to-access information and provides free online resources designed to inspire teachers nationwide and provide all the information and tools needed for getting involved with 'Take One Picture'. Key features include online exhibitions of innovative work created by schools taking part in the scheme. It also encompasses downloadable teachers' notes about the paintings and artists, as well as ideas for the classroom. High-resolution images are available to download and use with interactive whiteboards and PCs. Details of Continuing Professional Development courses at the National Gallery are also available.
Most recently, the National Gallery extended the 'Take One Picture' methodology to the regions with the 'Take One Picture: North, East, South, West' project. The Gallery has teamed up with the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Bristol Museums and Art Gallery to make the scheme more widely accessible to teachers. This new website can be seen at www.takeonepicture.org/nesw.
Notes to editors:
'Take One Picture' is a countrywide scheme where primary school teachers attend a one-day course at the National Gallery and then embark upon a variety of classroom projects based around a painting from the Gallery's collection. The aim of the scheme is to emphasise the importance of the visual arts within the primary curriculum. It explores different ways of using paintings in subject areas such as literacy, numeracy, and history, as well as art. The range of works inspired by the scheme since its inception nine years ago -encompasses writing, performance, film-making, sculpture, painting, printmaking and collage. Each year, the Gallery exhibits a selection of these works.
Development of both websites has been funded jointly by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES)under the National/Regional Partnerships Programme for Education and Communities 2003-4.
For further information, please contact Nathalie Griffiths at the National Gallery Press Office on Tel: 020 7747 2596.
April 2004
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