Musing over Museums
Another great morning is well underway at St Jude’s today. We
are very pleased to welcome our Governors who will spend some time in school
this morning and then meet together this afternoon. The Year 6 leavers rehearsals are going well and while one Year 6 class is out cooking, the other have taken over both rooms and are practising routines, songs and other delights to wow us with very soon.
I wanted to focus today’s blog on the current search for Museum of the Year. I listened to a short announcement this morning about the selection of the 6 finalists. BBC news describes it as “an eclectic group. There's a Georgian National Trust country house, Dunham Massey in Cheshire, that was converted to look once again like the military hospital it had been during World War One, the Tower of London, which housed an evolving installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies in its moat last year, Oxford University's Museum of Natural History, Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre, Manchester's The Whitworth and London's Imperial War Museum are the others shortlisted.”
This got me thinking about the local museums we have and whether we
are making enough use of these community treasures. With this in mind I have
started discussions with different teachers about using the museums, their
resources and in some cases their architecture to inspire learning in next
year’s topics.
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