Redbridge
Museum Education Service is a free service available to all
Redbridge schools and youth groups. We offer 10 taught sessions
which use our handling collection and museum displays on the
history of Redbridge and which support the National Curriculum and
cross-curricular studies.
The learning environment of the museum allows classmates to
investigate dipslays for themselves and to interact with each
other.
Participants are encouraged to express themselves and to
consider local objects and information in context. Skills such as
historical enquiry, communication and literacy, interpretation and
common sense are developed.
Details regarding the Education sessions are contained in our
Schools
Newsletter (PDF 343Kb).
We offer Black History Month relevant
taught sessions throughout the year and not just in October. We are
happy to accomodate the needs of all groups and aim to facilitate
visits from as many Redbridge schools and youth groups as we can.
You can also arrange to bring groups and teach them yourselves,
making our displays relevant to your topics.
The sessions we offer include:
- toys old and new
- multicultural yoys
- romans
- local history
- Victorian childhood
- Victorian washday
- wartime childhood
- We Were Not Alone: The Commonwealth contribution to WWII
- numbers everywhere
- suitcase stories
Redbridge Black History Month Video Conference
The purpose of the event is to showcase
specific work in primary schools that will highlight the
contributions and achievements made by the African-Caribbean
community, locally and nationally. This interactive video
conference is hosted by the London Borough of Redbridge, and the
LGfL (London Grid for Learning), and will be live to schools across
the country, as well as saved for future reference. You can join us
to watch presentations from primary schools, Redbridge Museum and
Black achievers, all hosted by DJ SPoony. There will be a chance
for participating schools to interview each presenter, and a great
opportunity to observe best practice teaching on these interesting
themes.
Any school can register to watch some or all
of the video conference live, just complete your details on the
on-line booking form.
For more details and to see the programme
visit the LGfL website.