Dear Rebecca

I should think that the school will like this idea - it will involve the pupils in the change from old school to the new one. 

You mentioned a couple of activities that we might be able to help with;
1. Interviewing family members/old pupils of the school
As part of our project, Their Past Your Future, we encouraged school children to interview veterans of the Second World War, and for this, created some guidance on best practice for conducting interviews, and provided suggestions for questions/activities. These are available to download from our website.
This should be the direct link: 
http://www.theirpast-yourfuture.org.uk/server/show/nav.00n00m001003 
But if there are gremlins about and that doesn't work, then click on 'Learning Centre', then 'Inside the Classroom' and finally, 'Learning with Veterans'.

2. You also mentioned the desire to preserve some of the school itself, and I wondered if it has a war memorial/plaque/roll of honour of former pupils who died during the First and Second World Wars - quite a few schools do. The UK National Inventory of War Memorials has listings of war memorials that have been gathered together by volunteers over the years. Their website is: http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/ 


best of luck with the project
Samantha

Samantha Heywood
Head of Corporate Education Programmes 
Imperial War Museum
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T: 020 7820 6707
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Their Past Your Future is a UK-wide education project led by a partnership of the Imperial War Museum, Museums, Libraries and Archives England, National Library of Wales, Northern Ireland Museum Council and Scottish Museums Council, supported by the Big Lottery Fund. The project aims to increase young people's understanding and appreciation of history, commemoration, national identity and civic participation/responsibility through learning programmes engaging with veterans of conflict, and with primary sources from UK museums, libraries and archives.

Details of the project can be found at: www.theirpast-yourfuture.org.uk 

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>>> rebecca mileham <[log in to unmask]> 04/20/07 1:23 pm >>>
Dear all,

My son's school is moving in the next year or so from a typical Victorian
town-centre building to a newly-built site in a different part of town. I'm
very keen to come up with some ideas for preserving artefacts from the old
school (they've got old registers, school bells and so on); recording oral
history with former pupils (many of whom are mums, dads and grannies of
present pupils) and maybe creating some kind of album with imagery etc of
the current building, which is gloriously gothic but rather cramped! I hope
some of this might be displayed in the new school.

I am a freelance museum text consultant; I have experience with working with
the children, and plenty of museum project management experience, but has
anyone any advice for running this kind of 'museum' project with primary
pupils? Do you think the head/class teachers will welcome this as a
suggestion?

thanks very much!

Rebecca
www.rebecca.mileham.net


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