{"id":236832,"date":"2025-10-31T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236832\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:51:09","slug":"art-workshops-bring-history-to-life-for-salisbury-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236832\/","title":{"rendered":"Art workshops bring history to life for Salisbury pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The sessions were held in Salisbury thanks to a donation from The Arts Society Salisbury and delivered by Magic Lantern, an educational charity that has been running classroom art history workshops since 1994.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charity transforms classrooms into &#8220;pop-up art galleries&#8221; through interactive sessions that use role play, soundscapes and group discussion to make art accessible and engaging.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The Magic Lantern have run workshops at St Mark&#8217;s (Image: The Arts Society Salisbury)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Workshops were held at St Mark&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salisburyjournal.co.uk\/educationnews\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">school<\/a>, where Year 3 and Year 5 pupils explored art from the Stone Age and Viking\/Anglo Saxon periods.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Staff at St Mark&#8217;s said: &#8220;Brilliantly resourced and pitched. Excellent engagement and management of the children.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Focused purpose, yet adaptable and child led. Great links to history, and geography.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;An engaging session \u2013 the children were excited to learn about the history of Stone Age art.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Briony was fabulous \u2013 she explained things clearly and at the level of the children.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;She included the children with active drama before putting pencil to paper. Thank you.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Magic Lantern charity covers a broad spectrum of art history, from cave paintings to Cubism and Turner to the Turner Prize.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Children are encouraged to explore, discuss, and bring to life artworks using drama, freeze-frames and dialogue, helping them to build oracy, visual literacy, empathy, observation and problem-solving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The society is also continuing its programme of monthly lectures, study mornings and visits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Recent topics have included A History of the National Gallery in Ten Paintings and Great \u2018English\u2019 Mansions Found in America.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The next lecture will be held on Tuesday, November 11, at St Francis Church in Beatrice Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will begin at 1.50pm and will explore The Wallace Collection\u2019s Rembrandts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For more information, visit The Arts Society Salisbury website or call 01722 331216.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sessions were held in Salisbury thanks to a donation from The Arts Society Salisbury and delivered by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}