Heritage Open Days Teacher's Pack
Heritage Open Days is about bringing people and places together, opening doors to discovery all year round. Designed for use across the curriculum, this pack contains tried-and-tested ideas for on-site and classroom activities, tips for arranging visits to historic and contemporary properties, plus a range of case studies and projects that use the built environment to inspire learning.
Teacher's Pack 2006
We have updated our popular and successful Teacher's Pack which, once again, is available for free download from this site. The publication now contains a wide range of new project ideas, from storytelling to oral history, from making model towns to learning through song. You'll also find extra schemes of work, tips from other teachers and much more. We've also freshened up the design to give the pack a more attractive feel.
Schools in our first year target areas will be sent hard copies of the substantially revised sections, while schools in our new target areas (Bournemouth, Hastings and Nottingham) will be sent copies of the full, revised pack.
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A fully-accessible html version of the pack will also be available on the site in early February. The html version of the first edition is still available here:
COMPLETE PACK
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COVER
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CONTENTS PAGE
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SECTION 1 What is Heritage Open Days?
Heritage Open Days is now England's largest voluntary cultural event. Find out how you and your pupils can get involved.
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SECTION 2 Planning a Visit to an Heritage Site
While good planning is the key to a successful and memorable school trip, it doesn't need to be onerous. This step-by-step guide helps keep your planning simple and effective.
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SECTION 3 Designing Popular Activities
Find out how to make the most of a visit to an historic site, pick up ideas for popular activities for use on site and in the classroom and try out some of our project ideas from storytellers, museum educators, workshop leaders, folk musicians and others.
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- 3.0: Introduction and Section 3 contents (156 KB)
- 3.1: Making the most of a property visit (294 KB)
- 3.2: Activity Ideas for Use on Site or in the Classroom (896 KB)
- 3.3: Scrapstores: an environmentally friendly and low-cost source of materials (699 KB)
- 3.4: Oral History, Heritage and the Curriculum (222 KB)
- 3.5: There’s a story behind that . . . Using books and storytelling to support heritage visits (363 KB)
- 3.6: Songs and Heritage (326 KB)
- 3.7: Photography (430 KB)
- 3.8a: An A-Z Celebration of your local area (31 KB)
- 3.8b: A3 sized A-Z poster (1,086 KB)
- 3.9: Museums and heritage projects (176 KB)
- 3.10: Planning a community event - Stoke Damerel Church and Devonport High School for Boys (681 KB)
- 3.11a: Build your own town: photocopiable nets for model buildings (Introduction) (147 KB)
- 3.11b: Build your own town: photocopiable nets for model buildings (Downloadable building nets) (2,619 KB)
SECTION 4 Planning Your Project
Why not make an Heritage Open Days site the focus of work across the curriculum? This section shows you how.
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SECTION 5 Project 1: Planning a Whole-School Open Day
Turn your own school into a rich exhibition and performance space for Heritage Open Days. Use our schemes of work and activity ideas for inspiration and invite in the local community to share in your pupils' success.
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SECTION 6 Project 2: Planning Open Days in Your Local Community
Heritage Open Days' success relies on volunteers opening up properties for their communities. It's a rich learning experience for all involved. Why not work with pupils to interpret an historic or contemporary site in your area? This section will get you started.
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SECTION 7 Useful Organisations, Associations and Web sites
Contact details for a wide range of organisations that can help you in many areas of your work with historic or contemporary buildings.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We are always keen to consult teachers to find out what they would like us to offer through our education programme, and to help us gain an insight into the many ways schools use the built environment for teaching and learning.
We have designed a short, two-page questionnaire in standard and large-print formats. We would be grateful if you would take five minutes to fill it in and email it to yaltman[@]civictrust.org.uk*
*As we receive a huge amount of spam mail, we decided not to have direct email links from our website. Should you wish to send us an email, please replace the brackets with @.
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