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Happy New Year! Wow, I'm really excited by all the work you are doing to support teachers teach this new topic, and thanks Alex and Andrew for pointing towards our website. The most up-to-date is www.schoolsprehistory.co.uk, we really should archive the wordpress site. I've been writing for the Teaching History in 100 Objects project at the British Museum, which covers the entire curriculum from Key Stage 1-3 and focuses on objects to illustrate different themes in each period. Each object is also accompanied by light touch teaching ideas and links to other objects that give a little more context. http://www.teachinghistory100.org/ I believe the Prehistoric Society are in the process of writing resources focusing on significant prehistoric sites around the country. Teachers are keen to have handling collections, and have been buying from us as well. Images are quite sought after so any image packages you can create, similar to Heritage Explorer, would be very useful. Your local museum may well have been creating resources so do get in contact with them - perhaps you can work together? I'm very keen to let teachers know that HERs exist, and to promote the study of local prehistory, but teachers are reeling with the number of changes they have to cope with at the moment and preparation for this topic has been necessarily fast and, dare I say, minimal. I'll write a blog post about what you're all up to for the website, so if anyone else is exploring this area, do let me know. Kim Biddulph Director, Schools Prehistory www.schoolsprehistory.co.uk ________________________________ From: Sophie Unger <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, 8 January 2015, 9:39 Subject: Re: Prehistory Teaching Resources for Schools Hi Richard At East Sussex we have taken part in a Teachers CPD day to help primary school teachers to better understand the period and topics they can cover. We are also in the middle of producing prehistoric finds 'toolkits' with both original and replica finds and finds cards for the five prehistoric periods which we will loan out to schools and also some schools have requested to purchase them. They are a reasonably inexpensive but engaging way to teach prehistory. We are also taking part in a larger conference for teachers at the Brighton Amex stadium in February and are offering 2 hour schools sessions at our local Record office to bring in children to, to discover how the HER works and using mapping resources to discover their local prehistoric archaeology. More than happy to chat through with you if you want to drop me a line. Best wishes Sophie Sophie Unger MA AIFA Historic Environment Record Officer Environmental Advice Team East Sussex County Council 01273 336378 07554436473 You can now request and pay for HER searches for via our new online system at http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/archaeology/her.htm). -----Original Message----- From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Watts Sent: 08 January 2015 08:49 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Prehistory Teaching Resources for Schools Hello everyone! I'm hoping that some of you might be abel to help - we're just starting to work on a project with a local charitable trust here, looking at trying to create a range of teaching resources for schools, that they can use when teaching the new Prehistory curriculum (for Key Stages 1 -3, which is everything before the start of GCSE's). We've been having a look around and have managed to find a lot of good resources already available online, that we can use to model our own on (eg. there's a lot of good material on English Heritage's 'Heritage Explorer' website, and links to a lot of intersting projects and collections on the Arts Council & CEPG's 'Cultural Resources for Schools' website - www.heritage-explorer.co.uk and www.nfer.ac.uk/CulturalEducationResources if you want to have a look!) We were really just wondering if any of you had been involved in a similar project recently, and whether you could offer any advice about how your projects went - about what worked well and engaged the students, and also what funding streams (if any!) you had managed to access or knew about? Any advice or suggestions you could make would be very gratefully received! Many thanks, Richard Watts Historic Environment Assistant (Records) Planning Services Lincolnshire County Council Tel: 01522 554831 PS. 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