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Primary Key Stage 1

We understand the importance of integrating your visit into longer term planning and encourage cross curricular links in visits.

These creative practitioner-led workshops are skills-based and adapted for different year groups. 

Time: 2 hours (includes comfort break)

Cost: £90 per workshop (max 33 children)

Book your workshop by ringing 0161 275 7453 or Steven Roper


Global Threads - World Textiles Become a designer! Capture the colours, symbols and patterns of world textiles and make one of your own.


Planet Pattern - Movement and Dance - Explore and experience our collections and unique gallery spaces through movement and dance. Discover a world of pattern and shape that can link to a range of curriculum ideas and themes.


Make an Impression - Printmaking - Take inspiration from prints, wallpapers, textiles and paintings to develop new skills in printmaking


The Sound of Music - Landscapes Soundscapes - Create and play musical graphic scores inspired by artworks, patterns and shapes


Park Life Pix - Photography - Frame - Focus - Click - Capture! Investigate and explore the built and natural environment through the lens of a camera. Venture into Whitworth Park to explore relationships between sculpture, trees and landscapes


Whitworth Wordplay - Creative Writing - Draw inspiration from artworks to unlock your poetic and creative talent!


Journey through Journals - Drawing and Sketchbooks - Fuel your imagination and your sketchbooks! Children will discover how artists use sketchbooks and journals to document their ideas, thoughts and observations.


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