Use the Cathedral as resource for projects? Fictitious accounts of
working in the cathedral? The history as stimulus for drama or poetry?
Factual writing eg Writing labels or guides?
Taking Literacy a Step Further... is downloadable from the
Gainsborough's House website:
http://www.gainsborough.org/education/edweb/
Teaching Literacy Through Art Located at www.accessart.org.uk Click on
"Online workshops" then "I See What You Mean"
British Library Living Works website:
http://www.education.bl.uk/
Especially the Words Alive pages:
http://www.blewa.co.uk/index.htm
Good luck!
Rosemary Silvester
British Association of Friends of Museums & Bristol Magpies
Liz Simmons wrote:
>
> I am Acting Education Officer at Rochester Cathedral, and in the
> process of developing new KS2 programmes. I am interested in
> using the Literacy Hour format for visits to the cathedral on the basis
> that :-
> a) we have effectively the first "big books" in our stained glass
> windows, which were there in the first place because most people
> could not read or write, and
> b) it was the monks at the monastery who provided all the texts of the
> medieval period, and so the cathedral / monastery was the centre of
> learning.
>
> I would be grateful if any members have any information regarding the
> literacy hour at their own institutions, and any materials / teachers'
> notes which they might feel able to share with me.
>
> I am preparing a presentation which I will be giving on April4th about
> this, so info. before then would be much appreciated.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Liz Simmons
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