Education for schools at Gainsborough's House

Our aim at Gainsborough's House is to provide a lively schools' education and outreach programme that will meet the individual learning needs of each group that visits us. Visits to the house can be tailored to cater for Key-stage 1 pupils to A-Level students. A visit to Gainsborough's House would be very useful for pupils studying History and Art and Design topics. However, a variety of cross-curricular themes, such as Literacy, feature regularly in our activities and tours.

School visit to Gainsborough's House: £1.50 per pupil, or free if your school is a member of Gainsborough's House (membership is £40 a year):

· If you wish, your group can be taken around by the museum's Education Officer who can tailor the tour to meet your learning objectives (allow at least 1 hour for this).
· Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils can also have the opportunity to try on some eighteenth century costumes at no extra charge.
· You may want to extend your visit by booking an extra workshop or activity (see opposite).

Extra Workshops and Activities (available all year)

Tailor-made activity/outreach: (price to be discussed before visit).
At Gainsborough's House we will strive to make your visit relevant to the learning needs of your pupils. Perhaps there is a particular topic that you have been studying that could tie-in to the resources that we have here, or maybe you would like us to visit you. Please give us a call and we will try our best to arrange something for you.

Gainsborough's Model Landscapes: (£25, or £15 for members).
This one and a half hour practical session can be added to your visit to give pupils the opportunity to learn how Gainsborough made model landscapes, using twigs, rocks and broccoli to help him with his drawings. Pupils will make their own model landscapes and then sketch them.

Gainsborough's World: (£15).
Gainsborough's House is an excellent resource for pupils who are studying History. This session will give pupils the opportunity to improve their skills as historians and learn about the world that Gainsborough lived in.

Costumed Figure Drawing: (£25 or £15 for members).
Gainsborough made his living by painting portraits of wealthy men and women. He sometimes made sketches of a sitter before he began to paint. This workshop gives pupils the opportunity to improve their observational drawing skills, when they will draw an adult dressed in period costume.

Printmaking Workshops: (please enquire for details and prices).
This practical workshop gives pupils the opportunity to learn printmaking skills for themselves in our professional print workshop here at Gainsborough's House. Techniques, such as monoprinting, relief printing and dry-point etching are taught by expert tutors.

For details and bookings contact: 
Liam Beeton, Education and Outreach Officer 
Tel: 01787 372 958 
Email: liam@gainsborough.org 

Last updated: 29 May 2007