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Regional Resources
Renaissance South East is supporting museums to develop services to schools across the region in a number of ways.
Schools4Museums
The database has been developed to identify schools that are currently using museums and those that do not. It will give an insight into the regional picture as well as enable those museums who submitted data to understand which of their local schools are not visiting them or using their services. .
The summary report for phase two of the South East Schools Database Project confirms that 74% of
the South East's Primary and Secondary schools took part in some form of museum-related learning
between 2004 and 2006, a total of 2,400 state schools. Levels of participation vary considerably
across the region, with the highest levels of Primary school participation involving the Isle of
Wight, Brighton and Hove, Oxfordshire, Medway and Hampshire.
SAM Culture (Sussex Arts Marketing) is continuing to collect data from all museums in the
South East. We are hoping that it will be possible for most museums to provide their data online
and that an increasing number will take advantage of the free online bookings system.
Visit Schools4Museums for more information on how to input your data and what the benefits are.
Good Practice Guides
- ABC of Working with Schools has examples of good practice, support and advice for museums working with school-age children.
- Making the Most of Museums demonstrates the wealth of good practice in museums across the South East of England and offers guidance to teachers wishing to use museum services.
- is aimed at museum staff and volunteers who want to begin to develop services to schools
- will also be of use to more experienced museum staff or volunteers who want to develop something new
- provides background information, examples of good practice and signposts to websites for further information
- has pages about:
- learning in museums and schools
- what is happening in schools today e.g. the National Curriculum
- how to go about developing services for schools
- how to develop services which include everyone
- how to prepare for a school visit
- provision of out of school activities for children.
Each page is backed up by downloads and references to useful websites for more information.
- will help teachers and student teachers to realise the potential of museums to support a wide range of curriculum subjects
- will aim to support newly qualified teachers in planning a visit to a museum
- demonstrates the benefits for teachers and pupils in working with museums.
Science Links in Museum Education (SLIME) South East
SLIME is a group of people with expertise, and/or interest, in developing and promoting Science in Museums. A training day FUNdamental Science was held at the River and Rowing Museum, Henley on 11th January 2007. To find out more about SLIME and to download notes and resources from the training day go the the page about Science in this section.