2024 Learning Innovations Award (National Organisation) Winner
The Superpower of Looking is an innovative and inclusive programme that seeks to transform the visual literacy skills of primary school children across the UK, taking the world of art and images as its starting point.
Using a set of free teaching resources, children will gain an essential superpower: the ability to really 'see' – to critically observe, analyse, question, interpret, and empathise. Children will become visually literate in the image-dominated world around them.
The resource is designed to harness the power of digital learning, demonstrate the techniques of visual literacy, and provide children with sharpened powers of observation and analysis, as well as a love of art.
The Superpower of Looking's overriding focus is to equip children aged seven to eleven with these vital lifelong skills, at a practical level it enables teachers to deliver many aspects of the Art and Design curriculum, as well as providing exciting new interdisciplinary approaches to learning. The Superpower of Looking promises to provide children with the cultural capital that each and every one of them is entitled to.
“This project has the potential to be transformative, boosting the confidence of both teachers and learners especially those with SEND, through immersive, sensory-rich experiences that bring art vividly to life. Highly adaptable and relevant, it draws on diverse artists and contemporary themes, making learning about and through art engaging, meaningful, and entirely current.”