Cotton Class recently enjoyed a fantastic educational visit to the South London Gallery in Peckham. While delivering excellence in the classroom will always be a priority for us, here at The Belham, we deeply value the power of learning outside of the classroom too. With staff working hard to arrange a wide range of educational visits for every child throughout the year, we constantly look for ways to enrich our student’s learning and connect with our amazing local community.
During one of our most recent visits, pupils in Year 3 explored Monika Sosnowska’s Weight of Matter exhibition - her first solo UK exhibition in nearly 20 years. Children marveled at large-scale sculptures crafted from steel, concrete, and twisted rebar, which reflect on modernist ruins and how physical space shapes human experience.
Inspired by the monumental artwork, the children were then treated to an immersive hands-on workshop with Monika herself. Alongside a number of other activities, children dropped pieces of string onto paper and were tasked with drawing the organic shapes created as they fell. These individual drawings were then merged into a massive, collaborative canvas - teaching the children that inspiration can come truly come from anywhere!
A huge thank you to the lovely team at the South London Gallery for hosting us, and our parents volunteers (without which the trip would not have been possible).
Year 3 Get Creative at the South London Gallery
November 13, 2026
