Follow Up Work
Report back to the EVC (Educational Visits Co-ordinator).
Make maximum use of your trip on your return.
- The museum may be able to help you with ideas for follow-up activities.
- You may want to re-visit the discussion you had before the trip about the purpose of museums.
- You might look again at Culture 24's Museum in a Classroom resource and consider setting up your own museum at school.
- Revisiting Making Museums and Museum in a Classroom might also be useful.
- The museum might be able to provide a follow-up visit to your school or provide loan material.
- Some museums provide online resources which can be used for follow-up. Search museum websites to see what there is, or encourage the children to do so.
- Follow-up work is where you could really develop a cross-curricular approach.
- Speaking and listening.
- Writing for different audiences, e.g., a newsletter account, labels, publicity flyers.
- Discussing the pros and cons of museums, and forging stronger links with your local museum (Citizenship).
- Looking at how to care for and conserve different materials (Science).
- Designing and setting up a display (Design and Technology).
- Using IT to research and prepare the above.
- Measurement of display space.
- It is a good idea to ask one of the pupils to write a brief account of the trip for the school newsletter.
- Set homework or an assessment on the work. Have an alternative for those who did not go on the trip.
- Put up a display of photographs and related work. (It's good publicity for the Department.) Remember parental permission is required for the use of photographs. Check your forms!
- If you feel that you had good service from the site, write a brief letter or make a phone call to express your appreciation. It will be gratefully received and may elicit a response which you can pass onto the person in charge of trips or the Headteacher (more good publicity for your Department).
- Start thinking about your next trip! The more you do the easier it gets!
NOTE: if you are planning a residential trip or one which could possibly involve any form of hazardous pursuit, different regulations are in force. Refer to your person in charge of school trips.
Downloads
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Making Museums (Pitt Rivers Museum and Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Word DOC, 39Kb).
Creating a Museum of Your School (Pitt Rivers and OUMNH. Word DOC, 69Kb).
Useful Websites
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Culture 24 for Museum in a Classroom (PDF, 1.14MB).
Milestones (Hampshire County Museums Service) website for Ideas for Pre-visit Discussion which teachers could use with their pupils.
Museums, Libraries and Archives South East (MLA South East) for details of museums in the South East and links to their websites.
Culture 24 for Curriculum Navigator a search engine which draws on resources within the main Culture 24 database. Funded by the DCSF and continually updated by museums and galleries themselves, the Navigator details teachers' packs, web pages, workshops, fact sheets, gallery tours and lots more.