It’s been a very busy few months for the Bristol Museums Learning team. We had our Dinosaur Takeover Week, Ancient Greek Week, and led some wildlife photography sessions in collaboration with UWE Bristol students. Secondary school students made a brilliant mural for their school during a workshop on Protest Art.
You can find out more about what the team have been up to, in particular our partnership projects, in our latest Learning blog. Read our Learning blog.
 

In March we commissioned a survey to understand what you value about Museums Learning and how we can make the service work for you and the children and young people you teach. You told us that you really like what we provide for learners and want even more from us! Thank you to all those who contributed and took the time to help shape the learning offer.

You told us that you value:
•            Quality and relevance of our programme
•            Access to ‘real’ objects, artworks and historic buildings
•            Skills of the Learning team
•            Cultural Capital for children

We are taking all your comments on board, making improvements to our current work, building on our offers and planning lots of new learning opportunities. We’ll be introducing these in the coming months. We are always keen to hear your ideas and feedback at any time. Contact us.

We have workshops and loan boxes for EYFS children. We will be expanding our offer this year so look out for details on our webpages in the coming months.

Toys Workshop - Compare and contrast examples of toys from across time in this hands-on session at Blaise Museum. Available to book on a Thursday term time until November.

Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life loan box - Investigate our Dinosaur and Prehistoric Life loan box and engage with an amazing selection of real and replica fossils, and realistic models of prehistoric life.

Coming soon! ‘How We Used to Live’ loan box. Handle everyday objects from the past that teach us how we used to work, rest and play.

We are adding to our Resources pages all the time and hope you find them useful in supporting your teaching.

Our latest video resource is about three medieval documents held in Bristol Archives. These documents give us a good glimpse into what life was like for those living in Bristol 500 years ago. From a map with street names you will recognise today, to a court document about a dispute between neighbours, these archives highlight the differences and similarities between Bristol now and medieval Bristol. Watch ‘Medieval Bristol in three documents’ video.

Something missing? Let us know if you would like a topic covered.


Loan boxes for Bristol schools
Want to handle some colourful Kente cloth from Ghana, explore religious artefacts or how about feeling some real fossils? We have a variety of objects and documents in our loan boxes to bring a mini-museum to your classroom. Loan boxes are available to Bristol schools for a two-week period. Book a loan box on our Learning pages.