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Our programme for schools takes a rounded approach including teacher training sessions, gallery visits, education packs, practical hands-on activity led by artists and exhibitions of work by pupils. We encourage schools in Lewis and Harris to use the gallery as a resource, developing ways for pupils to both learn about the work of contemporary artists in our exhibition programme, and to actively create their own artworks. The following quote from the Expressive Arts Curriculum underpins much of the work we undertake.
Art and Design should provide all pupils with opportunities:
To consider, select and organise materials and media and develop knowledge of techniques, processes and skills, appropriate to the activity and to the individual’s stage of development, in a learning environment, which stimulates awareness and imagination;
To use feelings, imagination and memory to develop, express and communicate ideas and solutions;
To enjoy and appreciate their own art and that of others, and to become aware of the influence of place, time, culture and material on the images and objects invented and created by artists, designers and craftspeople;"
Expressive Arts 5-14 (page 2)
Curriculum and Assessment in Scotland
National Guidelines
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