The ‘Take One Picture’ scheme for primary schools is a partnership that has been running for several years between Oxford Brookes University, the Ashmolean Museum and the National Gallery. Students undertake a placement where they observe a variety of teaching and learning strategies for different age groups in a non-classroom setting.
Many of our partner schools support our students in this project and this year twenty four Year 3 Primary Teacher Education students will be training for one week in the Ashmolean.
The aims of the placement are:
- To observe a variety of teaching and learning strategies for different age groups in a non-classroom setting
- To consider how these approaches can be translated into the classroom, for example using virtual reproductions
- To use images as a starting point for making links between different subject areas
- To improve confidence in using the visual arts and other cultural objects in creative curriculum planning
- To meet education professionals outside a school or university setting
- To promote the idea of creative working relationships between peers, teaching colleagues and cultural institutions
- To produce a cross-curricular scheme of work
The DfES and DCMS (Department for Culture Media and Sport) support the project aims to encourage more primary teachers to use museum and gallery resources in their lessons – in and outside of the classroom.
As part of the students’ School Experience 3 placement they will visit the Ashmolean Museum with their class and put into practice the teaching skills developed at the Ashmolean.
If you would like your school/class to be involved in the ‘Take One Picture’ scheme please contact Carol Ducker, Senior Lecturer, Primary Art and design.