Making the Best of Recovery in School Libraries - Webinar
School libraries are important spaces, helping to support and sustain the reading and learning within your school community. Join us for a collaborative discussion to explore how school libraries are surviving and thriving through this period of uncertainty; better understanding how to adapt your school library provision and enabling safer operations day-to-day.
Leading the conversation on successes and challenges will be Stella Thebridge, manager of Warwickshire Schools Library Service, Ayub Khan, Head of Warwickshire Libraries and Thomas Bryans of IF_DO Architects, leaders of government-backed work to help libraries be as safe as possible in the Covid-19 period. We are particularly pleased to have the insights of Thomas Bryans on this important topic.
Date: Monday 28th September
Time: 15:30 – 16:30pm
FREE EVENT
#MuseumfromSchool Bring the past to life for your pupils this autumn … in complete safety
The Heritage Education team have created some loans boxes and online workshops for schools.
Bringing the past to life through immersive and creative workshops. Workshops are cross curricular and cover a range of curriculum topics to support your teaching.
- Online live and pre-recorded workshops supported by an accompanying loan box.
- Loan box has replica and real objects that children can handle and investigate.
- Set of supporting information for the teacher to prepare the children for their virtual workshop.
- Loans are for two weeks, plus a 72 hour quarantine period.
- Delivered free to Warwickshire, Coventry, and Solihull schools. Please enquire to see if we can deliver to other areas
All workshops have an accompanying loan box. Choose from:
- Victorians
Choose from an online workshop with the Victorian School Marm
or explore the homes of a rich and poor family who live with a
Victorian maid. Also, watch on the Heritage & Culture Warwickshire YouTube channel a laundry workshop with Charlotte the Maid.
- Stone Age to Iron Age
The museum’s curator is busy moving all the objects in the
museum’s collections to a new storage facility and needs your help with a museum display. You have been sent a box of objects from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Can you help choose some objects for the new prehistory gallery at the museum?
- Fossils
Become palaeontologists and discover Jurassic Warwickshire. Handle and explore real fossils and use the descriptions to identify the fossils, and figure out what they have in common
- Ancient Egyptians
What can treasures found in a mummy’s tomb tell you about life and death in ancient Egypt? Brush up on your hieroglyphics and sort through and learn about some newly discovered artefacts.
- Fire of Warwick
It is September 1694 and nearly a third of Warwick residents are homeless after a great fire has devastated the town. But who should receive compensation? Join the lead commissioner Lord Brooke to discover what has been destroyed and who is making a claim.
For more details
Visit: heritage.warwickshire.gov.uk/education
Email: heritageeducation@warwickshire.gov.uk
Call: 01926 738880
Welsh Rugby Union (WRU)
The Welsh Rugby Union Exiles programme is designed for all enthusiastic young rugby players of all standards who are 'Welsh qualified' and based outside Wales. There are intentionally only 2 or 3 events per year per age group and a player's school rugby always takes priority.
All schools outside of Wales are invited to promote the programme by displaying / circulating the attached poster and inviting players to register with the WRU Exiles programme via
www.wru.wales/exiles Various links will then take them to further information. The programme has strong connections with universities in Wales.
Should they require any further information, School Heads of Sport or Directors of Rugby are invited to contact the Welsh Rugby Union National Exiles Officer, Gareth Davies, via
gdavies2@wru.wales Please find a copy of the poster here.
Latest RE updates for schools
There is so much happening in the world of RE at the moment so to keep you all informed SACRE has issued a September RE bulletin with some key information, including:
- Proposed Local RE Teach Meet
- REQM
- Warwickshire SACRE Website
Read the September Update here.