There has never been a better time to bring pupils and students to Alexandra Palace. Explore the Park and Palace with your class or reserve a guided ‘Grab and Go’ pack for self-led activities to discover, challenge and inspire enquiring minds.
Creative Learning works with schools and colleges across Haringey and neighbouring boroughs, offering an exciting range of workshops, projects, takeovers and events throughout the year. The programme offers many opportunities for enrichment with a focus on creativity that spans across the whole curriculum.
Our workshops provide practical platforms to showcase young people’s work, learn new skills, as well as signpost career opportunities and pathways in the creative sector. There’s CPD for teachers too!
Key Stage 1 & 2
March – September
In 2019, Alexandra Palace invites children from around the world to enter our inventing challenge. Workshops introduce children to the spirit of innovation at Alexandra Palace – a past full of incredible characters. Journey across the Palace uncovering little known facts and celebrating its unique position overlooking the London skyline. Pupils will be encouraged to stretch their creative muscle, draw their invention ideas and build prototypes! 10 lucky winners will see their inventions realised by our Marvellous Makers and exhibited at Alexandra Palace on World Inventors Day on 9th November.
Early Year to Key Stage 4
Go Wild (in the) Park with forestry school specialist facilitators. Sessions start in a hidden rendez-vous, where individuals and small teams complete challenges encouraging pupils to become responsible park users and treasure community spaces and resources.
Explore 196 acres of award winning parkland with our ‘Grab and Go’ self-led activity packs. Your expeditions take you on a journey through 21st century leisure time – exploring changing tastes of leisure since the opening of this much loved venue in 1863.
Book in advance and collect your resource pack from the East Court before leading a voyage.
Key Stage 3 & 4
Reality vs Truth is an adventure in learning about History (with a little h), inciting pupils to unpack the limitations of recording the past, making history and uncovering the reality behind stories presented to us as ‘truth’.
Created in partnership with interactive theatre makers Coney
(Video, activity & take-away)
Key Stage 3 (STEAM)
Understand the science behind relaying images into people’s homes across the world – from the BBC pioneers sending out ‘magical mysterious rays’ of light from Alexandra Palace to the present day.
Created in partnership with Redloop (Middlesex Universities research-led, innovation and design centre run by the Faculty of Science and Technology)
Learners explore the ideas, values and rational beyond the original architects design of Alexandra Palace whilst re-imagining a Peoples Palace for contemporary visitors.
Learners will take a whistle stop tour through the history of theatrical lighting from oil lamps to LED, and understand how dramatic effects are created by sculpting with light.
Complete a local history project in just 2 to 4 visits. Sessions span over 150 years of history, examining the original ideas behind the architect’s vision, the birthplace of television, WW1 and plans for the future of the Palace.
Tour the Palace and see first hand how the traces of past have left their mark on the Palace over time!
Discover the Victorian values behind the Palace by exploring primary sources. Inspired by Victorian programming, pupils will make their own Alexandra Palace thaumatrope and consider the local significance of the Palace today.
Key Stage 2
Did you know the Palace was a refugee camp for Belgians during WW1? Or an internment camp for 3,000 non-naturalised German men released in 1919?
Pupils explore reactions to the arrival of these new communities. Using newspaper clippings, letters and diary entries to uncover a picture of the lives of these communities as different circumstances forced them to make Alexandra Palace their home.
Imagine a world before smartphones, the internet and TV. Bonkers right!
Pupils will piece together the stories behind the birthplace of broadcasting and create a clearer picture as to how this pioneering technology changed the world.
Alexandra Palace brings world-class creative organisations and practitioners to Haringey. With our guest programme we asks companies to pitch new ideas for workshop at the Palace to broaden the range of opportunities for schools in Haringey. Recent contributors include BBC Proms Learning, BAFTA, Discovery Learning and many more.
Keep an eye out for our Guest Programmes as places tend to sell out fast!
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Our programme of continuing professional development courses for teachers explores different aspects of teaching using a range of creative tools to enhance learning in the classroom. Led by expert practitioners who understand the particular demands of working in schools, you will learn professional approaches tailored for use in your classes. Recent CPD events include training days delivered by Discovery Learning on using domestic technologies in the classroom, and BAFTA Gamers.