In the latter part of 2005, the Museum - in partnership with Stantonbury Campus - contributed to this project run by SEMLAC (the South East Museums Libraries and Archives Council). The aim was to explore how schoolchildren and teachers might take fuller advantage of what museums had to offer, how the delivery of the curriculum might be enhanced and supported, and how learning might be extended and enriched. The class chosen to participate in the project were at the time studying the growth of Milton Keynes.
On October 14th, Class 8SRH from Stantonbury Campus visited the Museum and took a series of photos on digital cameras which had been bought as part of the project. The images on the cameras were downloaded onto a CD which the tutor took away. Over the next weeks the Year 8 children assembled pages on Microsoft Publisher, giving details about the photos they had taken and why these were important in explaining some aspect of the growth of Milton Keynes.
The Museum staff had a return visit to the school campus on November 18th to do further work with the class. The pages which the children had created were converted into web pages, with the Museum staff advising on presentation and factual elements. A selection of the students' work is presented here. Click on the links below to read their take on Museum artefacts and the significance they hold.
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Aspects of life in Milton Keynes before the new city
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