V&A Virtual Classroom: Primary - Design Explorers (Autumn 2021)

Connect your class via Zoom to the V&A through live interactive sessions delivered by museum experts to bring museum objects and their stories to life virtually.

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  • Tickets cost £50.00

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In this virtual session, your students will have the chance to meet and work with artist, Gayle Chong Kwan, to explore her work, investigate museum objects and take part in hands-on activities to develop their creative thinking. Focusing on design process, your students will use waste materials as a starting point to experiment and create an imaginative design prototype.


By the end of the session your students will have:
-Explored the work of a professional artist
-Examined how to use museum objects / collections as inspiration
-Taken part in activities to develop their design thinking skills

Available: Selected Wednesdays
Timing: 60 minutes
Cost: £50
Capacity: 1 class per session (maximum 32 students)
Online: hosted on Zoom
Suitable for KS2 Design & Technology, with links to Art & Design

Booking:
All Virtual Classroom sessions are booked via the V&A website - click on the 'BOOK NOW' on this page to place your booking. Payment is taken online at point of booking. Please book with your school email. A minimum of 3 weeks’ notice is required, however, we advise booking as early as possible in order to ensure you get your preferred session, timeslot and date. (We do not accept bookings from third party providers.)

Once booked, you will receive an automated email to confirm that we have received your booking. This email will include the document, 'V&A Virtual Classroom – Essential Information' with a Microsoft Form. Please ensure that you read and complete the Microsoft Form with essential information we require about your class at least 2 weeks before the date of your session.

You will then be contacted by a member of the Schools & Colleges Team with your Zoom link to join the session, list of materials to prep in advance of the session and any supporting information.

If you have any queries about booking your session, please get in touch via schools@vam.ac.uk . For any issues processing payment, please call Contact Centre Team on 020 7942 2000

Useful Info:
The session is exclusively for your class. We can accommodate only one class for each session. The minimum number of students per session is 10. The maximum number for Primary is 32 students.

V&A Virtual Classroom sessions are only open to UK schools. International schools can sign up to our e-newsletter for more information on upcoming programmes. Regrettably we will have to cancel any sessions that have been booked by non-UK schools and the sessions will be made available online for other schools to book.

As we have a limited number of sessions and would like to give as many schools as possible an opportunity to engage in our virtual programme, we request that you book a maximum of two sessions per term for Primary or Secondary. Regrettably, any sessions booked above the maximum number will have to be cancelled and the sessions will be made available online for other schools to book.

Sessions cancelled within two weeks of the session date are non-refundable.

Header image: Background image: 'Wastescape' (Detail of installation), Gayle Chong Kwan, 2012. Photo Credit Gayle Chong Kwan and Linda Nylind