Programme

09.45 Registration, Tea and Coffee

10.15 Welcome to Scolton Manor

Mark Thomas County Museums Officer with Pembrokeshire County Council

10:25 Introduction to today and to the project

Clodagh Cherry Learning Development Officer, Building a Learning Legacy Cymru

10.40 How children learn

Clodagh Cherry As well as the Learning Development Officer for this project, Clodagh is Learning and Access Officer for Stoke on Trent and lives in North Wales

This session will take a look at learning styles and some of the theories behind learning. There will be a chance to find out what type of learner you are. We will also look at learning for all staff.

11.45 Tea and Coffee

12:00 Learning from objects: Case study 1:

Discovery Boxes and DECADES

This session will examine the Discovery Box – resources into schools programme that has been run and developed by Pembrokeshire Museum Service since 2001 following a successful Clore Duffield grant application. It will look at setting up the scheme, getting it used by teachers and Pembrokeshire schools, consultation and feedback for future development. It will aim to encourage organisations thinking of developing similar resources to create their own resources. At a Pembrokeshire level – it will also seek to look at partnership working for the future between the members of the Pembrokeshire Museums Association and affiliated bodies. It will also look look at the DECADES – 1900-1980, Years of Change resources scheme for lifelong learning audiences, established in 2004 with an Inspiring Learning grant from CyMAL (WAG).

Bio detail: Mark Thomas has a first class honours degree in Cultural Studies from University of Wales and went on to study for a post graduate diploma in Museum Studies (Social History) at Leicester University. He has worked in the museum environment since 1990. For the last ten years he has been employed as County Museums Officer with Pembrokeshire County Council – managing and developing the local authority’s museum service. In 2004, he led a team to the last four of the Gulbenkian prize for museums with the VARDA Romany gypsy project. Although not an education specialist, he has worked extensively with corporate education colleagues employed by Pembrokeshire County Council to deliver a range of education and lifelong learning projects including Discovery Box.

12.45 Building a Learning Legacy cymru

Clodagh Cherry will lead a discussion as to how to take forward in this area the provision of peer to peer support in museum learning

13.15 Lunch

14.00 Case Study 2:

Carew Cheriton Control Tower ‘a lifetime of learning’

John Harris will lead this session. He is a retired secondary school teacher and now a volunteer responsible for education provision at Carew Cheriton Control Tower – a small independent heritage attraction in South Pembrokeshire.

The session will look at the restoration of the control tower as an object in its own right and how a community group (of young and old members) was responsible for achieving this goal. It will then go on to examine how hands-on education workshops and activities are delivered to local school children, and discuss the value of real objects and the ability to get close to them.

14.45 A Learning Style Activity

Mark Thomas will talk about The Victorian Kitchen – what do the objects tell us about life and work in the Victorian era? Bringing a period room to life.

This session will look at the period room approach to display and how these spaces can be used for interpretation. It will examine how Pembrokeshire Museum Service uses the Manor House at the Scolton site for educational activities and how object-based learning is an integral part of the programme. It will also examine the role of objects in a lifelong learning role and as a valuable resource tool as part of Pembrokeshire Museum Service’s Access, Community and Education Services (ACES).

15.15 Sharing resources

A chance to share ideas for resources such as booking forms and trails.

15.45 Evaluation and tea and coffee

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