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Manchester University Students ‘Super Science Day!’
Posted by: debbiedoran on: April 4, 2012
Third year students from Manchester University have delivered some wonderful Science sessions as part of their final year projects. The topics ranged from ‘Domestication of Dogs’ ‘Guts and Digestion’ ‘Categorising Animals’ and ‘Microbiology.’ It was a fantastic day; the students taught a brilliant Year 6 class from Birchfields Primary School. The class had a really wonderful day exploring hands [...]
Manchester Histories Festival: 24th Feb – 4th March
Posted by: Cat on: March 13, 2012
Between the 24th February and 3rd March we joined in the celebrations for the Manchester Histories Festival 2012. In the Museum’s Learning Team we were invovled in a couple of activites and events that had Manchester History at the centre of them. Firstly, The Museum had a stall during the celebration day at the Town Hall on [...]
The Midden Project: An experiment in archaeology
Posted by: Cat on: February 24, 2012
This is a Guest Post by Lauren Martin: an intern working in the Museum’s conservation department who has been involved in one of our Secondary education projects. Recently the Manchester Museum has been working with eight Year 8 pupils from Matthew Moss High School in Rochdale on an experiment to demonstrate the decay and survival of everyday [...]
Archaeology in the Park
Posted by: Cat on: September 30, 2011
Recently, pupils from Manchester Academy, Aquinas College, Medlock Primary School and Heald Place Primary School were invovled with the archaeological investigations that took place at Whitworth Park as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund supported excavations by the University of Manchester. The project involves partners from the University of Manchester Department of Archaeology, The Manchester Museum, [...]
Competition to meet Terry Deary
Posted by: Cat on: August 12, 2011
Big News for all those fans of Horrible Histories and Egyptian Tales. The Manchester Museum is holding a competition for the chance to meet Terry Deary and grab a signed copy of an Egyptian Tales book! In our upcoming Unearthed: Ancient Egyptexhibition, Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories and Egyptian Tales plays our Egyptologist, Dr Digby in [...]
Vote for The Manchester Museum in the National Lottery Awards
Posted by: Cat on: June 14, 2011
The Manchester Museum and Imperial War Museum North are delighted to let you know that the In Touch Volunteer Programme has reached the semi-finals of The National Lottery Awards! We now need your support to get us to the finals, and it’s your vote that will help to us get there! Please click on this link to [...]
China Workshops
Posted by: Cat on: April 12, 2011
Just recently we’ve been really fortunate to start work with Walton-le-Dale Hgh School in Preston on a project they are working on in school all about China. As part of this we delivered our workshops developed alongside the China: Journey to the East exhibition from the British Museum. Walton-Le-Dale were able to bring the majority of [...]
Ecuador Pen Pals
Posted by: pippadoyle on: November 8, 2010
This summer Johan Oldekop, PHD student in the department of Life Sciences visited communities in San Jose de Payamino and Chontacocha in Ecuador. Johan kindly delivered some resources from us to the children including felt tips, furry bugs and footballs. Johan also took some questions from pupils at St Augustine’s Primary in Monsall, Manchester and [...]
HF4U – a new term begins!
Posted by: Jon on: September 29, 2010
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Higher Futures 4U has just begun workshops with a new cohort of primary schools: St Margaret Ward Catholic Primary School from Sale, St James’ CofE Primary School from Gorton, Barlow Hall Primary School from Chorlton and Ashbury Meadow Community Primary School from Beswick. If summer 2010 was anything to go by, we have a very [...]
New term. New Exhibition. New Workshop.
Posted by: Cat on: September 14, 2010
The new term is finally here, and the opening of the China: Journey to the East exhibition is fast approaching. I’m really excited about this exhibition and the associated programming we have for the Secondary cohort. We will be offering a brand new KS3/4 workshop that will encourage students to explore in detail the links between ancient [...]
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