Know Your Place Exhibition
When: Saturday 5 July 10:00 - Friday 8 August 17:00
Where: Sheffield Central Library
Schools across Sheffield have been exploring what makes our city special, how it has evolved, and what matters to them now.
Come and see their creative insights into Sheffield’s heritage and its lively neighbourhoods!
Heritage isn’t just history; it is much wider. Heritage is the relevance and impact of the past on us today.
Heritage explains who we are now, and why we are how we are now.
As part of Historic England’s Heritage Schools Programme, Create Sheffield, Sheffield Museums Trust, Wessex Archaeology, Manor Lodge, Sheffield Archives and the National Emergency Services Museum have taken a multi-partner approach to providing heritage training for Primary school teachers working in Sheffield.
The training consisted of five different days, each session building on the previous one, showing teachers how they can effectively use local heritage in the curriculum. Each session included a visit to a different heritage site across the city, including an exclusive tour of the excavations at Castlegate.
This exhibition is the result of work done back in the classroom with support from creative practitioners. The teachers wanted to explore who, what and where is important to their pupils. They then created fantastic artistic responses to share what they have discovered.
Their work will be exhibited throughout the Central Library building from 5th July - 8th August.
No tickets required.
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More info on partner organisations who all offer a range of workshops, visits and resources for schools.
To find out more about the excavations at Castlegate as well as how to bring more archaeology to your school go to https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/education
For more information about Manor Lodge and their curriculum linked offer for the Tudors, Castles, Stone Age and Local History visit https://greenestate.org.uk/school-workshops/
At the National Emergency Services Museum there are a host of exciting topics including WWII and the Blitz, The Great Fire and others about the emergency services. To find out more go to https://www.visitnesm.org.uk/learning
Sheffield Museums offer workshops, visits and resources for art, history and science inspired by the city’s collections across their six sites. See what they can offer your school at https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/learning/
Sheffield Libraries and Archives have lots of downloadable resources on their website and can help your school research your local area. For the resources visits https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries-archives/education-resources To find out how they can support your school email Sally.Rodgers@sheffield.gov.uk
Historic England were instrumental in making this project happen and providing map packs and aerial photographs for all the participating schools. As well as their Heritage Schools Programme, they also have loads of resources for schools here https://historicengland.org.uk/education/