Education and INSET

Our substantial education and outreach programme for 'Human Cargo' was financially supported by the National Portrait Gallery, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), Plymouth City Council and Renaissance in the Regions.

It included directed sessions within our galleries with groups ranging from The Imaginators to social work masters degree students from the University of Plymouth.

In addition, teachers from across the region joined Anna Farthing, a specialist in teaching history through drama, to find out more about how to engage children and young people with the issues surrounding slavery and abolition in a specially arranged INSET evening.

The themes included in this free session were: creative active learning, assembly ideas, empathy and engagement, as well as cross curricular approaches suitable for history, citizenship, music, literature and drama.

Two separate education packs were also produced to support the exhibition, one relating to the historic transatlantic slave trade, and one relating to contemporary slavery and the artists responses within the exhibition.

The historic pack featured information for educators surrounding the objects and portraits on display in the exhibition. The contemporary pack provided an insight into slavery today, and the way contemporary artists have tackled such subjects. Both packs included a number of ideas for use by educators and although 'Human Cargo' has now finished, can be used independently of the exhibition as a classroom resource.

Visit our education resources page to download free copies of one or both of these packs.