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Join the @NPGLondon Schools team and explore learning through portraiture. Let’s talk about identity, society, British history, art and culture

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@FeatherstonePr2 @NPGLondon Fabulous to hear that your students were inspired by their visit to @NPGLondon. Don’t forget you can learn more about portraits on our online Schools hub
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RT @FeatherstonePr2: #Year6 enjoyed exploring and being inspired by the art, history & range of artistic styles at the National Portrait Ga…
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@kingsmathschool @NPGLondon Great to hear that your students enjoyed the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize exhibition and visiting the Collection. Don’t forget you can learn more about portraits on our online Schools hub
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RT @NPGLondon: Your votes have been counted, and the winner of this year’s Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize People’s Pick is 'Celia and…
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Discover this @NPGLondon portrait of British engineer and space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock on Schools hub for @WomenScienceDay. Questions encourage students to look closer. Why do they think she is looking up? #February11
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RT @kingsmathschool: So many outstanding & diverse images at the National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. An incr…
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Apply for this exciting new role: National Learning & Engagement Convenor. A key role to lead, manage and deliver the @NPGLondon’s national learning and engagement work on ‘Journeys with Mai’ the national project focused on the portrait of Mai by Joshua Reynolds. Find out more:
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Kae Tempest is a poet, playwright and spoken word artist. Use the @NPGLondon portrait resource on Schools hub to explore the theme of identity. Who would your students choose to create a photographic portrait of them, to reflect their values or feelings? @LGBTHM #LGBTplusHM
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RT @KensingtonRoyal: It was fantastic to see The Centre for Early Childhood’s Shaping Us Framework, which is based on key science, expresse…
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RT @KensingtonRoyal: Working with @earlychildhood to launch the new #ShapingUs framework. The Bobeam Tree Trail is just one example of ho…
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Last chance to book your school group visit to the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024. Exhibition runs until 16 February 2025. £3 student tickets groups of 10+. Advance booking only call 020 7306 0055.
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The Chevalier d’Eon, French soldier, spy, diplomat, and the first person recorded in British history to live openly as both a man and a woman. Analyse d’Eon’s @NPGLondon portrait in our Schools hub resource. @LGBTHM #LGBTplusHM
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This year’s theme for LGBT+ History Month is Activism and Social Change. Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell helped organise the first official Gay Pride march in 1972. Explore his @NPGLondon portrait on Schools hub. @PeterTatchell @LGBTHM #LGBTplusHM
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In this death mask Tracy Emin reimagines a historical artefact usually associated with important men. Discuss identity and self-portraiture by examining this bronze sculpture with your KS3–5 students, supported by our classroom resource.
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Discuss cultural identity with your KS 3-5 students using our learning resource. We consider how portrait artists use colour, clothes, pose and location to convey their sitter’s identity – and how the subjects feel about their portrait at @NPGLondon.
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This #HolocaustMemorialDay we are remembering Ben Helfgott, who remained a campaigner for Holocaust education, anti-racism and peace until he died last year at the age of 93. Explore his story and @NPGLondon portrait on Schools hub. @HMD_UK #HMD2024
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Malala Yousafzai is a human rights activist for female education and the youngest person to be awarded the @NobelPrize for peace. Explore her story this #InternationalDayOfEducation in our new KS1–2 resource @Malala @UNESCO @UNESCOUK
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Bring the Tudors to life with our KS3-4 resource exploring @NPGLondon portraits showing how the rich and powerful projected an image of wealth and global ambition. Find evidence of Tudor image-making and ask whose stories and images are missing.
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Mary, Queen of Scots was a prisoner for 19 years. Focusing on visual source analysis skills, our KS2–5 History resource reveals the symbolism and significance of her @NPGLondon portrait.
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