Culture and Schools East

Collecting Memories

Museums, Libraries and Archives across the region have vast experience with intergenerational learning. They can help

planning: helping with ideas, contacts and information as well as methodological advice about issues such as copyright and gaining permissions
support: providing objects, documents, images, books and equipment. They can offer inspiring spaces to learn, displays to stimulate memories for all generations, and contacts to collect memories from
outreach: bringing resources and people to schools- working alongside schools and their projects
maintaining a legacy: providing a safe place for recordings and transcripts so that memories will be safe for ever

Link to the "Their Past Your Future" website to find out more about this ongoing project funded by the Big Lottery to make a difference in local communities.

Current opportunities are outlined on www.mlaeastofengland.org.uk/home
Lots of useful ideas can be found on www.theirpast-yourfuture.org.uk/server/show/nav.00n00s
and http://www.cultureandschoolseast.org.uk/system/memories/index.html

Attached documents

Collecting Memories

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27 Feb 08

Guidelines for intergenerational work between museums, libraries, archives and schools
Partnership Guidelines for Schools and Young People

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12 Sep 08

Guidelines for schools and young people provide step-by-step instructions, creative ideas, and sound practical advice on how to implement successful intergenerational work with veterans. From the Inside the classroom section of the TPYF website
Partnership Guidelines for Veterans

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12 Sep 08

Guidelines for veterans give advice on how to contact schools and share personal testimony with young people, encouraging veterans to take part. From the TPYF website
Risk Assessment

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25 Sep 08

A guidence tool to risk assessment for activities away from the school premises.
What Makes A Memory?

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25 Sep 08

This activity can be used to prepare pupils, for learning activities based on Their Past Your Future veterans' reflective questionnaires. It encourages pupils to engage with the material and think about the process of making memories.

Interactive Guides

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Go and talk to your local museum and tell them what you would like

- Jane Allnut - Volunteer