Primary Learning

Our schools programmes are specifically designed with Years 1 - 8 students in mind.  See your students build knowledge, skills and confidence through facilitated discussions, hands-on activities and manipulation of media.

Students in the Gallery

Overview

Details of our programmes are shown below - for more information click here to view our 'Gallery Explorer' video. If you would like to join our mailing list and receive new updates about our programmes, contact us on the form at the bottom of the page.

 

Tour programmes
Foundation programmes
Studio programmes
Special programmes

 

TOUR PROGRAMMES: YEARS 1-8

Ways of Talking About Art

This special programme is not your average tour! Students will have the opportunity to investigate ways to talk about and make meaning from an artwork through discussion and activities. They will walk away with strategies they can apply to help them engage with artworks within the classroom and independently.

With a focus on a selection of around five artworks, and walk through discussion on others, students will: explore and describe artworks as objects themselves; investigate the ways these ob­jects convey the subject of the work; and consider how context impacts on these understandings.

This programme is differentiated by age group, and offered for students from years 1-8.

Available during term time Mon-Fri

 

FOUNDATION PROGRAMMES: YEARS 1-8

Our thematic Foundation programmes give students the opportunity to build knowledge and skills across the curriculum through meaningful engagement with art.

Rich creative and critical thinking is encouraged by lively discus­sion and activity. Each programme explores four to five artworks in the Gallery's spaces.

All Foundation programmes include both a gallery and studio experience. Included with these programmes are FREE term-long teaching resources for Levels 1-2 or 3-4.

 

Storytelling

How do artworks tell stories?  Consider how some artists use narrative techniques we are familiar with to visually story tell.  Then think about something completely new!  How does a gallery tell stories with many artworks at once?  A wonderful exercise in lateral thinking!

Available during term time, Mon/Wed/Thu/Fri


Portraiture and Identity

How do artworks convey identity in artworks?  Learn about how artists capture their own and others' identities through a variety of artistic techniques, both traditional and non-traditional.

*Portraiture and Identity is not currently available. An alternative programme, that can incorporate portraiture and the concept of identity, is the Signs and Symbols programme. Please identify this focus when you book.


Signs and Symbols

Explore how artworks communicate with us through symbols we can detect and decipher. This programme explores the use of symbolic objects within artworks, as well as ways in which artists ingeniously play with their use of materials and elements in their media to inspire our curiosity and stretch our thinking in new ways.
Available during term time, Mon/Wed/Thu/Fri


Landscapes

Landscape is dear to New Zealand hearts. Explore how artists have responded to our landscape in wonderful and diverse ways. Explore images of landscapes, identifying the techniques and effects artists used. Then look at artworks that are completely different!  In these artworks, the landscape itself was really the starting point...
Available from Term 3 2012, Mon/Wed/Thu/Fri

 

STUDIO PROGRAMMES: YEARS 5-8

Studio programmes are extended art-making sessions for groups of older students. Students will take part in an intensive, four-hour art-making session with an emphasis on the exploration of media and technique.

Drawing inspiration from artwork on display in the Gallery and examples of other related works, they will develop their creative responses to artists and visual art themes using a variety of processes, skills and materials.

Sculpture

  • Wire and plaster figures
  • Construction

Printmaking

  • Etching
  • Linocut
  • Embossing and Collagraph
  • Screen printing (up to 15 students)   

Available during term time, Mon/Wed/Thu/Fri

 

SPECIAL PROGRAMMES

Special Programmes may respond to exhibitions with a particular focus (perhaps with a particular cross-curricular aim, with a focus on critical/creative thinking skills, investigating certain types of media), or involve artist interactions with students.

Some special programmes are developed in partnership with external providers. In the past, the Gallery has collaborated with the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries Dance School, Auckland University, the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra and The Edge Performing Arts Centre. Special programmes encompass a diverse range of learning experiences.

 

Term 3 Special Studio Programme

Create an Ideal Home for Auckland Today

This exciting cross-curricular special programme incorporates visual arts, technology, social studies and maths.

Students will respond to a brief to create an ideal home for Auckland today. This theme is a key idea in the 5th Auckland Triennial.

Children will explore the work of Triennial artist Michael Lin, bringing their own knowledge and experiences combined with research, to creatively problem solve some of the issues Auckland faces today.

An excellent opportunity to develop critical and creative thinking as well as art-making skills.

Age groups: Years 5-8

Dates: Weeks 1 and 2 of Term 3 only

Maximum daily attendance: 30 students

 

Our schools programmes are Learning Experiences Outside The Classroom, supported by the Ministry of Education.

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