Dear Tracy and Mads
We've found that Outreach is proving v popular with schools, as Mads
mentioned, so much paperwork, planning and effort is needed to take schools
out for the teachers. They seem much more eager to get
artists/curators/sessions into their own buildings and hold session there.
However, if a museum wants 'heads thru doors' for their visitor numbers this
doesn't really help, unless you consider the number of children reached by
the outreach. Of course there is never anything to replace the actual
experience of a visit to a gallery/museum for children, alongside meeting
different people, with different roles, in different venues. But I do think
Outreach its worth considering in moderate balance to internal visits, ie.
take your collection out to them and encourage them to make a visit later
on.
Sonja
Sonja Kielty
Senior Special Collections Assistant
Special Collections
Brotherton Library
Parkinson Building
Leeds University
Tel: 0113 34 34983
website: www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery
(Bretton Hall, Mon, tel: 0113 34 39223
website: http://naea.leeds.ac.uk)
-----Original Message-----
From: Mads Sarley Pontin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 October 2003 11:14
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Figures 2002/3 v 2003/4
Dear Tracy,
we have just launched an expanded service - an although we have more than
met our very very conservative targets, personally I was expecting more
response from schools.
I believe that the preparation, paperwork and responsibility issues
surrounding the Risk Assessments needed before a trip can be done is the
deciding issue now for Educational visits.
The trouble is that as each one of these is individual to the journey made
by the school and their children, its not like we can prepare it for them.
However once a school has prepared one for the journey to your venue, they
can, of course simply review it and re-use. This makes hope that things
will pick-up.....
As we are a council museum I have ensured that we have been trained by the
same LEA H&S officer who last term trained all the schools in the new
Educational Visits H&S procedures for Risk Assessments. We have developed
a Code of Behaviour which he has checked, which we email out to schools to
read etc and put into their Educational Visits files before they come. Our
site managers have incorporated the information into their H&S talk at the
start of each workshop session too. We then also have our standard RA for
public use of our spaces. Our schools workshops are currently all low risk
- only family learning sessions use scissors!
Best Wishes
Mads
Mads Sarley Pontin
Education & Outreach
Newham Heritage Service
The Old Dispensary
30 Romford Road
Stratford
London E15 4BZ
tel: 020 8430 6393
mobile: 07771 978375
fax: 020 8430 6392
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