28 May 2025 / 8 Alligator
Aztec Displays in Schools
We’re happy to show here a selection of photo’s taken in primary schools around England showing their displays/work in progress on the topic of the Aztecs, that we’ve snapped on recent visits to the schools. Click the links alongside to go the various pages. At the bottom of this page are some items that we’ve found in our ‘archives’.
Forgive us if some of the images on some pages aren’t displayed to best effect: time isn’t always on our side... You could always start by enlarging the main photo above: would you have thought this was actually work produced by CHILDREN (at St. Christopher’s School, Beckenham, Kent)?!
How about kids’ displays in Mexico...? We’re delighted to be able to show you some examples of children’s work on the Aztecs in Mexico. This is the beginning of a proposed programme of collaboration between Mexicolore and the Templo Mayor Education Service, Mexico City...
Our aim is to showcase children's work on the Aztecs - and pre-Hispanic Mexico generally - from both sides of the Atlantic: watch this space...!
Or a facsimile codex exhibition if you happen to teach in France? Our good friend Jean-Olivier Saiz, a teacher of Spanish in France, has put a great deal of work into mounting travelling exhibitions in France of pre-Hispanic Mexican codices.
If anyone should know of, or come across, an interesting example of public displays - by children or adults - of Aztec (or pre-Hispanic Mexican in general) art(efacts)/artwork, in any country of the world, please get in touch with Mexicolore and we will consider adding them to these pages.
Mundi
Click (top right) to see wonderful examples of artwork produced by schools in Nottingham taking part in the 'Háblame' project linking primaries in Notts with partners in Coahuila, northern Mexico; learn more about the project in our feature (follow link below)
Sharing ideas
We're delighted that several teachers are starting to get ideas for their displays from examples we've posted on these pages; a lovely case in point is Kettlefield Primary in Dullingham, Suffolk (see their displays - follow link below): never having tackled the Aztecs before, Lis Lapthorn and her team began with the idea of adapting the exceptional mural at Icknield Junior in Luton (cf). They haven't looked back ... Congratulations, Lis!
Archives
The first image is truly anonymous. It's a photo of some quite impressive Aztec costume items (specially the headdresses!) but we've no note of the school where it was taken! It’s likely to be from the early 1990s/ If anyone recognises it, please let us know ... (click to enlarge)
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More School Displays
- IntroductionMundiBishop Winnington-Ingram CE School, RuislipSt Mary of Charity Primary School, FavershamOur Lady of Sion Junior School, WorthingMorgans Primary School, HertfordBedgrove Junior School, AylesburyFynamore Primary School, CalneSt. Mary’s RC Primary School, GranthamKettlefield CP School, NewmarketBridge & Patrixbourne CE Primary SchoolRupert House School, Henley-on-ThamesSt. Andrew’s CE Primary School, ChinnorWildridings School, BracknellIcknield Primary School, LutonWoodville Primary School, South Woodham FerrersWoodford Halse CE Primary SchoolRedriff Primary School, London SE16St Peters CE Primary School, South WealdGreat Cornard Middle School, SudburyDurrington Middle School, WorthingPark Lane School, WhittleseySt. Paul’s CE Primary School, ChessingtonThe Ralph Sadleir Middle School, PuckeridgeHillsgrove Primary School, WellingAllenbourn Middle SchoolNotre Dame Junior School, LingfieldSt Laurence CE Primary School, WallingfordSt Nicolas CE School, CranleighLittle Ealing Primary School, LondonQueensway Primary School, BanburySt. Christopher’s School, BeckenhamOak Farm Junior School, HillingdonCopford CE Primary School, ColchesterOur Lady & St. Philip Neri RC Primary School, LondonShelley Primary School, nr. HorshamRayne C.P School, BraintreeBovingdon Primary Academy, BovingdonOakwood Primary School, St AlbansClaremont Primary School, Tunbridge WellsHenry Moore Primary School, HarlowDenmead Junior School, WaterloovilleThorpe Acre Junior SchoolTwydall Primary School, GillinghamSt. Bernadette’s RC Primary School, FarnboroughEmmer Green Primary School, ReadingHolly Park Primary School, LondonTorriano Junior School, London (Maya)Royal Masonic School (Juniors), RickmansworthEdlesborough School, DunstableCokethorpe Junior School, WitneyNayland Primary School, Colchester