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Worcestershire Record Office's Education Service
| The Worcestershire Record Office provides a range of services for children and teachers, ranging from running INSET days, to providing leaflets and hosting visits and events. |
 Teachers using the Worcestershire Record Office at an INSET day |
Worcestershire Record Office has a Learning Group comprising of members of staff from both public branches. We work with schools to guide them in what resources we have that they can use in the classroom |
Follow any of these links to find out more information about the different services we provide: |
General Overview
| Archives can be a great educational resource. They can be used within primary and secondary schools, sixth form colleges and universities. They can capture people's imagination because they contain local information that children and adults can relate to. Although history is the obvious connection, they can also be successfully used for geography, English, maths and many other subjects. |
Newsletters
Sign up for termly newsletters giving ideas on using sources in the classroom and relevant news, or download them from here by following the links:
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Education Packs
| Parish and Subject Packs are available to buy. They provide sources that have already been selected, copied and transcribed. A full list of these packs is available on the Education Packs page. |
Professional Development Days
Professional development days are opportunities for teachers to discover more about what we hold and how they can use they resources in their lessons. Professional Development Day 2008 - Worcestershire Sources!
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Examples of Educational Activities
| These are some examples of visits to schools by Record Office staff or by young people to the Record Office to help put our work in context. If you have any queries, please contact us. |
Creative Learning - Crime & Punishment Autumn 2007-Spring 2008 We are working on an exciting project to develop classroom resources based on our documents to help bring the past to life for students. This is a joint project, funded by MLA West Midlands, and involves Bishop Perowne C of E College, George Marshall Medical Museum, St Barnabas Primary School and the Youth Offending Team. A Year 10 Drama class from the College has been producing performances based on the stories about criminals and the punishments contained in our archives, along with death masks from the Museum. These will be filmed, and the end result will be placed on a website so it can be used in the future with Primary Schools across the county to help them think about issues to do with crime and punishment both in the past and today. |
| Learning Links Project Autumn 2007 Vicky Fletcher, a member of Worcestershire Record Office staff recently delivered sessions on Citizenship to Year 5 and 6 students at Stanley Road Primary School in Worcester as part of a project to build links between the school and the record office. The sessions began by looking at copies of documents held in the record office concerning life in the Worcester Workhouse in the 19th Century. The children were then asked to imagine they were the government of a country, and to decide upon what they thought were essential human rights that they wanted people in their country to have. |
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| The session then finished by asking the children to think about these essential human rights and compare with what human rights a person in the Workhouse in Victorian times would have had. The project culminated with the students visiting the record office for an activity session that looked at maps and photographs of their local area along with a newspaper report of an inmate absconding from the workhouse in 1838. The project has been very successful, and enjoyable for all concerned. It is hoped that it has paved the way for more work with the school in the future. |
Norton School Visit July 2007
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On 17 July, two members of the Learning Group visited Norton juxta Kempsey Church of England Primary School to deliver sessions using archival materials. The children answered questions on the census, school records, photographs and maps. They ended the morning with a quill writing exercise which they all thoroughly enjoyed. If you would like more information on a visit by Record Office staff to your school, please contact the Learning Group. |
| Blessed Edward School Visit Autumn 2006 In October, November and December 2006 pupils from The Sanctuary, a special learning centre of Blessed Edward Oldcorne School in Worcester, visited the Worcestershire Record Office. Because of the very particular needs of the children we had to take a slightly different approach to the visit than we would for other school groups and focussed more on how people study the documents in the Record Office and where the documents were kept and why. |
Pupils from Blessed Edward Oldcorne School on a visit to Worcestershire Record Office |
Contact Details
| If you would like more information on on any of our services please contact the Learning Group by email or on 01905 766351. |
Last modification: 17:38:24, 30th January, 2008 by Louisa Mann
Review date: 29th April, 2008
