Posted by: Menaka on: November 23, 2009
Why not check out this short film all about our Primary Outreach sessions and the wonderful objects we can bring to your school.
Posted by: alexajeanes on: November 4, 2009
Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 October saw the Manchester Science Festival 2009 Schools Event take place with Year 8 pupils from all over Greater Manchester packing into Pure Nightclub in the Printworks for a day filled with engaging and educational workshops, shows and activities exploring science, engineering and maths.
I went out with our Clippy Island: An [...]
Posted by: Menaka on: September 22, 2009
As we move into the new term, the Learning Team are delighted to welcome Vicky Grant to our team as Primary Outreach Educator. Vicky started work at the beginning of August and will be working on the Primary Outreach programme with Pippa. Vicky will be going out to schools with all sorts of exciting Museum [...]
Posted by: Hannah on: September 15, 2009
On 22nd July, Louise and I visited the North Manchester High School for Girls with a combination of resources from both the museum’s ‘Rocks Revealed’ session and the ‘Rocks Outreach’ session. After spending some time looking at some nice big specimens from the museum’s collections, we investigated ‘The Rock Cycle’ using movement and dance!
Using [...]
Posted by: Hannah on: July 2, 2009
As previous posts have explained, myself and Neil have been working with a group of Year 5 pupils from Old Hall Drive, in collaboration with Cedar Mount High, on a multidisciplinary (science-art-drama-design-type affair) space project. The overall aim has been to get the pupils to create their own planet, to design some form of life [...]
Posted by: Hannah on: June 15, 2009
Two weeks ago, I took our Rocks Outreach session into All Saints Primary School in Gorton. Accompanied by my trusty colleague Saira, and kitted out with giant foam dice and some very heavy boxes, we had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with a Year 3 class.
For me, some of the (many) highlights were:
Pupils describing [...]
Posted by: Neil on: May 14, 2009
There is no beginning no end to my wit in these titles, is there?
Last week, Hannah and I made our second visit into Cedar Mount High School where we again met with Year 5s from Old Hall Drive primary school.
Last time, we discovered extreme environments on Earth and began our journey of space exploration, using [...]
Posted by: pippadoyle on: April 20, 2009
Pupils from St Augustine’s Primary School in Monsall and Armitage Primary School in Ardwick have been introduced to the Museum’s jaguar as part of the development of the new Environmental Education Outreach session. The jaguar, with it’s very big teeth and claws, received an initially tentative response from the children but by the end of [...]
Posted by: pippadoyle on: March 3, 2009
The Outreach Service visited Booth Hall Children’s hospital this week with Chanje Kunda, a performance poet from Lime Arts, Manchester.The play centre at the hospital is a great space with a pool table, foozball and a very relaxing sensory room, we didn’t want to leave!
The children enjoyed handling the objects we took in; a jaguar [...]
Posted by: Cat on: February 25, 2009
Just over a month ago I wrote about the collaborative project funded by the MLA which I have been working on with Kate Barton from Neston High School. The aim of the project was to create two sets of teacher resources which would allow groups to come into the museum on a self-guided tour of [...]
Recent Comments