Prepare your school's visit to see Juan Muñoz's Conversation Piece III, 2001 (until 3 November 2013) using our background resource for teachers, with an introduction and overview of the work.

Prepare your school's visit to see Dan Graham's exterior pavilion on our South Terrace Two Cubes, One Rotated 45° Carl Andre: Mass & Matter / Rosa Barba: Subject to Constant Change / Turner's Perspective (until 17 November 2013) using our background resource for teachers, with an introduction and overview of the work.

Prepare your school's visit to see Carl Andre: Mass & Matter / Rosa Barba: Subject to Constant Change / Turner's Perspective (1 Feb - 6 May 2013) using our background resource for teachers, with an introduction and overview of key works.

Prepare your school/group visit to see the three paintings on display from the Arts Council Collection: Ivon Hitchens, Jeffery Camp and Thelma Hulbert, using our background resource, with an introduction and overview of the works.

The works are on diplay until 2 June 2013. 

Prepare your school's visit to see Maria Nepomuceno's Tempo para Respirar: Breathing Time (until 17 March 2013) using our background resource for teachers, with an introduction and overview of key works.

St Mary's school in Kent visited Turner and the Elements in February and based their entire week’s lessons around the visit! Here is the maths challenge that the children did during their visit. Why not download it and try it yourself?  With thanks to Nicola Sparkes – teacher at St Mary's and Turner Contemporary Navigator.

Prepare your school's visit to see Rodin's using our background resource for teachers, with an introduction and overview of key works.

Artist Jan Wheatley has created a comic-style resource with Year 10 and 12 students, just for secondary schools.

Download copies for free from the link below, or pick up your class's free copies at the gallery.

Please note that this is a large file and may take a while to load.

We've created a guide, Paper Round, which has been specially made by Generate artists and their children to help primary pupils explore our current exhibition. 

Download copies for free below, or pick up copies for 50p each from our Information desk.

 

Please note that this is a large file and may take a while to load.

Prepare your visit to our second exhibition Nothing in the World But Youth (17 September 2011 - 8 January 2012) using this background resource for teachers, with an introduction and overview of key works.

This resource is intended for accompanying adults to use with children in the gallery to discuss our inaugural exhibition, Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens. 

For contextual information about the exhibition please refer to our resource for secondary schools.

This resource is intended for accompanying adults to use with children in the gallery to discuss our inaugural exhibition, Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens.

We’ve created a DVD Toolkit for people who work with under 4s in playgroups and nurseries and children's centres. This fantastic resource is free to download and includes information about the Generate project, how to replicate activities and processes and an outline of how the project helps to meet the Early Years Foundation Stage Targets. In 2009, we distributed the DVD free of charge to Children's Centres across Thanet.

Generate was set up in 2007 with a group of Kent artists inspired by the creativity of their children. The project encourages parents and children to make artwork together through listening, sharing and exchanging skills and ideas.

Artist Katy Beinart has written a teaching resource based on the themes of building and construction, which focuses on the theme "A Place to Be". The resource has been funded by Enquire.

A Place To Be schools resource

This downloadable resource is full of ideas about teaching Key Stage 1 and 2 maths, using patterns found in contemporary art, historical objects and our envirnment.

The resource was created in collaboration with canterbury City Council Museums and Galleries Service and Stour Valley Arts with artist Katy Beinart and funded by Enquire. Enquire is a national programme supproting learning in gallaeries and is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Children, Schools and Families as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education, adn by the Foyle Foundation.

The Enquire programme is managed by Engage and has been developed in association with Arts Council England.