If a little bit of funding is required to get a school
started why not, through the museum staff, approach the
museum's Friends group? Many Friends groups would be only
too pleased to help and see a new generation enjoying and
cherishing, not to mention learning from, their museums.
A follow up activity could be children and teacher doing a
presentation about the Museum in the Classroom to the
Friends group or inviting the Friends, or at least the
committee, to the opening or for a private view. Unless you
have children of school age it is very difficult to get a
real idea of what is going on in schools so many wonderful
projects only get an audience of pupils and parents.
Just my two cents...
Rosemary Silvester
Bristol Magpies and British Association of Friends of
Museums
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:43:40 -0000 Stephen Allen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ylva French (E-mail) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 05 December 2001 13:04
> To: Steven Allen (E-mail)
> Subject: A Museum in the Classroom
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> Note to Members of GEM
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> In 1999 the Campaign for Museums launched the Teachers' Resource Pack - A
> Museum in the Classroom. Some of you will have received it at the time. We
> are now planning to update the pack (all copies have gone) and I would very
> much welcome your comments. For those of you who have not seen it, you can
> access part of it on the www.24hourmuseum.org.uk site. One point raised by
> teachers is how can they get help from their local museum to do a "museum in
> the classroom". Any ideas on that or anything else, will be welcome. Ylva
> French, Campaign for Museums. [log in to unmask]
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