Learning newsletter - September 2021
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| Welcome back! |
Welcome to a new school year and a very warm welcome to children and educators visiting our museums for the first time since March 2020. The Learning team have enjoyed seeing you all in our workshops over the last couple of weeks. We've received a very high number of booking enquiries and we will try and offer everyone a date to visit before the end of Term 2 but we are still operating at a reduced capacity. If you have been unable to book a school visit why not consider booking one of our webinars?
Keeping you and our staff safe in our museums is very important and we have important visit guidelines, including a special Covid-19 risk assessment, for all schools and groups visiting our sites. All of this information will be sent to you by email, along with your booking confirmation.
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Museum visits for Terms 3 and 4 - book now
We are able to take school and group bookings for January onwards so please contact us to book. |
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| Online and onsite learning workshops |
Following the success of our online programme last year, we are continuing our free webinars for schools. These will run alongside our on-site workshops at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and M Shed.
Schools outside of Bristol are also welcome to book webinar sessions and group visits. This term we have a variety of KS2 webinars to book from Predators and Prey, using 3D imagery of real animals, to the Art and Architecture of Ancient Benin. Find out more and make a booking through our website.
We also have two webinars for KS3-4 that can be delivered on-demand. Contact us to book Colston and the Transatlantic Traffic in Enslaved Africans or Bristol’s Health in the Past.
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| Sandford Award for Heritage Education |
We are thrilled to have been recently awarded the Sandford Award for Heritage Education 2021- 2026 for Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. The Sandford Award is an independently judged, quality assured assessment of education programmes at heritage sites, museums, archives and collections. This is what the Sandford Judging panel had to say about our Learning programme.
“Bristol Museum & Art Gallery provides a learning environment that develops critical thinking skills and understanding of local, national, and international heritage, the development of science and the role of art and literacy within these. The opportunity to see, and where possible handle, the collections bring the curriculum to life whether that is Ancient Egypt, artworks, or dinosaurs.” |
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| Learning Resources |
Thank you to those of you who suggested topics for our Resources pages on the website. We have now added Bristology and the Bristol Blitz. Bristology has information about the people, places and history of Bristol, and Bristol Blitz includes oral histories and animation that can be used in class to explore history and literacy. The next collection will be Ancient Egypt, so don’t forget to tell us what else you would like us to add!
Home Educating Families
We hope to be able to offer webinars for Home Educators soon, please Follow our Twitter page @brismuseumlearn to keep up-to-date with events and webinars. |
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| New textbook for Key Stage 3 |
A new textbook has been created by local secondary History teachers and the Learning Team at M Shed, in response to the Black Lives Matter protests and toppling of the Edward Colston statue in June 2020.
Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery: origins, impact and legacy can be bought by schools (£8 per copy + shipping) by emailing an official order to museumbookings@bristol.gov.uk. Please include the name and email address of a school contact in the Finance team, in case of any queries.
You can also buy individual copies in the museum shops and the online shop at a retail price of £11.95.
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| Art commission at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery |
When you visit Bristol Museum & Art Gallery you will notice this black and white mural in the front hall. A Movement Not A Moment by Jasmine Thompson pays respect to, and honours, the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Symbols include a black panther, kings and queens, athletes taking the knee, the empty plinth and fallen Colston statue, sound systems, street food, and flags hanging from windows. This artwork provides a great starting place for conversations around identity and equality.
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| Exhibitions and events |
The Colston statue: What next?
Survey open until 3 October- young people’s views wanted!
The statue of Edward Colston was pulled down on 7 June 2020 during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol. The statue is on display alongside a selection of placards from the protest as well as a timeline of key events. There is still time to give us your views on the future of the statue and plinth. We ask that you encourage 12-18 year olds to give their views before 3 October to make sure we capture a diverse spread of opinions. The statue will remain on display until January 2022.
Find out more, complete the survey and book your slot to visit the display.
Early Black Bristolians - evidence in the archives
21 October 2pm - 3pm
Written records show people of African descent have lived in Bristol since at least the mid-1500s. Join us for a Black History Month online talk about a new resource: the Early Black Presence Index.
Find out more and book your place for Early Black Bristolians
Housing the People in Victorian Bristol
18 November 6pm - 7.30pm
One of the problems of the Victorian period was the provision of houses for all the extra people who crowded into British cities in the 1800s. This online talk will look at what was built, when, where and by whom.
Find out more and book your place for Housing in Victorian Bristol
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