Archive for the ‘Darwin Extravaganza’ Category
Summer School Extravaganza!
Posted by: Cat on: July 29, 2010
On the week of the 19th July The Manchester Museum was taken over by 58 Gifted and Talented Key Stage 3 students from a variety of Manchester schools in order to take part in our Darwin Summer School. This consisted of five days of frenzied activity where participants were split into four groups entrusted with [...]
Darwin Summer School – Opportunities for local schools
Posted by: Louise on: May 17, 2010
As we approach the end of our exciting year of Darwin related activity and the end of the academic year, we have opened recruitment for our Darwin Summer School. The Summer School has been genorously funded by The Edina Trust and The Excellent Hub for the North West to support the attendance of Gifted and [...]
Darwin & Humanity Guest Blog
Posted by: Cat on: March 29, 2010
Here is a guest blog from Suzie Kennedy who recently helped out on one of our Darwin & Humanity Study Days. As a member of staff from The Manchester Museum’s visitor services team, my job is to staff the public galleries, providing information for visitors about The Museum’s collections and exhibitions. Having studied Archaeology and [...]
Guest blog: Purple Candles?
Posted by: Neil Dymond-Green on: March 24, 2010
Gavin Shortall is the Year 6 teacher at St James’ CE Primary School, Rusholme, which is our ‘school in residence’. I asked him to write a guest blog entry on how he feels our partnership benefits the children in his class: Manchester Museum. Where to start? When I sit down to think about Manchester Museum, [...]
Darwin CPD Dates announced
Posted by: Louise on: March 10, 2010
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We will be running two 3hr CPD sessions for primary and secondary teachers on Tuesday 20 April 2 – 5pm and Saturday 24 April from 10am – 1pm. Join us to look and develop ways of using the Museum to help with the teaching of Darwin, Evolution and Natural Selection. There will be the opportunity [...]
Darwin’s Impact
Posted by: Cat on: March 8, 2010
As part of our Darwin programming we have been doing some evaluative work tracking the impact of the activities we offer in Secondary and Post-16. From our current data we are pleased to announce that we have engaged over 1,400 students in our Clippy Island activity with over 60% from Outreach activities, and approximately 250 students [...]
Darwin & Dads
Posted by: salmah123 on: January 27, 2010
During November last year myself and Anna Bunney (Curator of Public Programmes) began a short collaboration project between The Manchester Museum and a local ‘dads group’ based at Hulme Library. One of the core objectives of the project was to engage with a very specific target audience of dads including single dads, dads who may [...]
Darwin’s Beagle Voyage – Pupil’s Pictures & Comments
Posted by: vicky07 on: January 25, 2010
Hello All and Happy New Year! In November and December 09, the outreach team delivered 10 interactive Darwin outreach sessions to 272 Key Stage 2 pupils at 7 schools. Thanks to all those we visited, for asking such interesting questions! And for sharing your follow up work with us. Here are some of your pictures [...]
Bemrose School visit The Manchester Museum
Posted by: Alexa on: January 18, 2010
Here at The Manchester Museum, we often get schools and colleges from quite far away coming to see our collections and take part in the workshops and activities we run, and when we had a teacher, Joe Close, from Bemrose School in Derby ringing up and enquiring about workshops for her students, with the students [...]
Clippy Island Workshop and tour around the museum for Our Lady’s RC College
Posted by: Alexa on: January 5, 2010
Here is a guest post from a recent visiting teacher, Rebecca Jordan from Our Lady’s RC College “I visited the museum on Friday 11th December with a rather boisterous group of year 11 pupils from Our Lady’s in Blackley, I’m sure the museum staff will remember us! The staff were fantastic with the pupils and [...]
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