Khalsa Secondary Academy's visit to Stanley Spencer Gallery

On Monday 16th June Year 7 Class 2 visited the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham to start work on their project which will be looking at Identity and Self-Portraits.

Before learning anything about Spencer and his artwork they started their project by making observations about him based on his self-portrait.  They then wrote a list of questions which they would like to find out about him and they explored the gallery to see if they could find out any more information. 

Stanley Spencer - Self-Portrait 1914

Paul Grandidge, Education Officer at the Stanley Spencer gallery, then talked to the group about Stanley and his art work. He told us about how Stanley loved Cookham so much that it became his nickname amongst his art school friends at Slade, he was home schooled by his sisters in his garden shed and how he was a very religious person.

Learning all about Stanley Spencer