The Tate Year 3 Project with Turner Prize and Oscar-winning artist, Steve McQueen, is a major new artwork, which will culminate in one of the most ambitious schools projects that London has ever seen.

Every Year 3 class across London has been invited to take part in the largest group portrait ever made. For St Ignatius we will be taking part on May 17th.

The final photo will be an epic picture of our city’s pupils and will show our rich civic diversity. London’s seven and eight-year-olds will be able to explore their hopes and futures in an entirely free to access programme focussed on identity, belonging, inclusion and citizenship.

On May 17th a Tate photographer will visit our school, taking class photographs for the artist to form a vast exhibition of tens of thousands of Year 3 pupils. The photographs will be centre stage for six months next year in the prestigious Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain.

By taking part, our pupils will see themselves in one of the most compelling British artworks of our time at the heart of the nation’s collection, and our school will then be able to engage with the wealth of free programme resources offering rich routes in to PSHE, Literacy, Citizenship, Art and Design.

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