Beyond the Frame: Incorporating Art History into the Primary Curriculum (Teaching Geography)
- Region: Online
- Type: Talk
- Cost: Free
Thursday 19 November 2026, 4-5pm.
Free online.
A free online CPD session for Primary School teachers, led by Magic Lantern workshop facilitators Helen Anderson and Caroline Rae.
This geography and art cross-curricular session will:
- Help raise your confidence in introducing art to children
- Enrich your knowledge and understanding of a diverse range of relevant artworks -from the Catalan Atlas to Aboriginal art to Hockney
- Demonstrate how to use artworks to provide opportunities to consolidate taught Geography skills and knowledge, and to help develop children’s critical awareness
- Suggest a range of engaging/ interactive classroom strategies/ activities
Who is this session for?
- History Subject Leads
- Art Subject Leads
- Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 class teachers
- ECTs and teacher trainees
- Museum and gallery learning professionals
Image: Attributed to Abraham Cresques, The Catalan Atlas (detail of sheet 6/12, showing Mansa Musa), 1375, pen with coloured inks on vellum, gilding, height: 64.5 cm; width: 25 cm (these are the dimensions of the sheet rather than the detail), Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Image courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.