This months Roving Reporters Blog Post comes from Danyaal, Hashim and Sadia – enjoy! Hello we are the Roving Reporters. Here is some more breaking and unexpected news about the great, amazing and eye catching whitworth expansion and it’s progress so far. Last month we interviewed the site manager Mr Jackson. There have been problems […]

For a few years now, Whitworth Art Gallery has hosted a themed week that has connected to exhibitions and displays for a schools network group from the Cheshire area. Headed by Fallibroome Academy, their feeder groups ‘Art Week’ acts as a transitional project aimed towards introducing children of other schools together, before potentially moving on […]

Hello! This is our second report on the Whitworth expansion. On our latest visit we noticed the builders have started the amazing glass café and the learning studio! For the hard working cooks there will finally be a bigger cooking space! The plan for the new art garden looks outstanding! The plans for refurbishing the […]

We may be closed for now but that doesn’t stop Takeover Day! The Children’s Commissioner’s Takeover Day gives children and young adults the opportunity to experience the world of work and make their voices heard within organisations and institutions. Whitworth Art Gallery continously values our young audiences feedback and thoughts throughout the year, and any […]

Learning @ Whitworth would like to invite our Roving Reporters, from Heald Place Primary School, to update our followers and supporters on the exciting redevelopment of our Gallery. Through the eyes of a child, this project will not only give great insight into the building work that’s ongoing behind the scenes but provide information from […]

Working alongside our school in residence, Heald Place Primary, and Steve Symons, sound and technical artist for the award winning ‘Owl Project, the Whitworth Art Gallery set about an extensive digital mark-making project with these bright Yr 5 pupils. The brief was simple – to produce a digital app for ‘Smart Glass’ devices that connected, […]

In 2014, our new learning studio will allow us to access and celebrate the unique environment that the Park provides in ways we have never done so before. Working with the ‘Friends of the Park’ team, we are allowing certain areas outside to grow ‘wild’ in order to have perfect settings for future forest and […]

Do you have an idea for a clever invention that could solve an every day problem? BBC Learning and CBBC’s Newsround have launched a very exciting new competition aimed at groups of primary school children aged 8-11.  CBBC’s Dick and Dom appeared on the Newsround sofa to launch the competition and explain a little bit […]

See below some of the stunning class work created by pupils from Mottram, St Andrews Primary School after a recent visit here to the Gallery where a collage and mark making workshop took place within the rocks and skies of the dramatic Welsh landscape of Snowdonia in John Pipers paintings.