Abstract :
‘Art Now in the Classroom’, was a joint venture
between Goldsmiths College Education Department,
Tate Modern and six Primary Schools in and
around the London area (Sandhurst, Pilgrim’s Way,
Hawesdown, Hawkesmoore, Lauriston and Myatt
Garden.) It ran from September to November 2000,
beginning initially with the placement of two
Goldsmiths students at each school then continuing
with school visits to Tate Modern, and four
Fridays spent working in the classroom, culminating
in an exhibition at Tate Modern where the
children from all six primary schools got to see their
own work publicly displayed. This paper is an
account of the work produced by the children
from Sandhurst Primary School and an assessment
of both the educational opportunities it
provided for the primary classes involved and for
the Goldsmiths students involved. The aims of the
project were to demonstrate effective ways to
work collaboratively with contemporary art, to
support the development of teaching strategies
at KS2 and KS3 and to offer possible approaches
for working with contemporary material in the
classroom.
