Subtitles
Associated Teachers TV programme
Using Museums: Ancient Worlds
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National Museums Liverpool
operates across eight sites,
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and is the largest national museum
outside of London.
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Each year, 150,000 students take
part in flexible education sessions,
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covering themes
such as ancient civilisations,
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natural history,
conservation and art.
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Year 7 students from Weatherhead
High School in the Wirral
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come to the museum for a day
of Egyptian-themed activities.
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(man) I'd already decided
it was gonna be an Egyptology trip
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to LiverpoolMuseum.
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Why Liverpool? Because it's close,
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because if it's an enclosed area,
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it's easier to manage
in a lot of ways.
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You can imagine, if you go on
a history trip which is a sort of...
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We went to one recently in Dudley,
which was an open-air village.
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It's very difficult
to keep track of them -
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where they are,
where they've gone and so on,
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but in LiverpoolMuseum
it's all enclosed,
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and it's an easier venue
to cope with generally.
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The purpose of going to the museum
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was actually as an introduction
to the key stage 3 history.
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They've actually already covered
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the Egyptian period in key stage 2,
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but when they arrive here in year 7,
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we like to introduce them
to historical skills
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of research, note taking,
presentation, that sort of thing,
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and it's a sort of a good
introduction to key stage 3.
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(narrator) The trip begins
in the multimedia education centre.
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(woman) The idea
of "Death on the Nile"
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is to bring the world of the ancient
Egyptian mummification to life.
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We try to make the show as fun
and as entertaining as possible,
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but obviously we have to be factual
and truthful to the times.
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The mummy that you can see behind me
is a dummy we had specially made,
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and during the show,
we invite members of the audience
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to take part
in mummifying the body itself,
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so they help us to wrap it up
and take the brain out of the nose
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and remove the organs.
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Hopefully, it brings it more to life
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and it gives a greater resonance
for the young people
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when they go back to the school.
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Each group, you're gonna take
pictures as you go through the day.
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I'm not gonna tell you what to take.
You're gonna do the report, right?
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When you get
back to school tomorrow,
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you're gonna have one period
to do the PowerPoint presentation
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of what you've learned
and how you've learned, all right?
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Not just what's in the gallery,
but how you've learned, all right?
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We wanted it to be
a sort of history and media thing,
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so I sort of stressed at the outset
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that I wanted them
to do a presentation,
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which would be done
in school the following day,
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so that they would have to prepare
materials during their visit,
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they took cameras, and then it was
to be made into a presentation,
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which was gonna be presented
to their peers on the following day.
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It's important to explain
the purpose of the visit to them,
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so that from the outset, they
don't think it's just a day out,
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that they will be in uniform, they
will be representing the school,
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and we will expect them to learn
and develop skills on the day,
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which they can use later on.
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(woman) The idea that you go
to the museum to collect information
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and to find out about a topic,
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in this case, the Egyptians,
so that when you're back at school,
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you can do a presentation
to children younger than you
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or children in other year groups,
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is a really good idea and
could be used to shape any visit.
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And certainly,
our experience of museum education
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is that if the children
have a clear task,
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which can help shape
their collecting of information
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and their observation,
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that really does produce
very effective learning outcomes.
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I think we add value
to the school curriculum.
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We add value to creative learning
and thinking for young people,
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creative teaching for teachers.
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We think our expertise, creativity,
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the fact that we're not bound by the
national curriculum in what we do,
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we can find new ways
to create learning.
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It's the oldest thing that
you've ever touched, those things.
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(Carol) It's really important
that we understand
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and listen to teachers' needs.
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They are the experts in the field.
They know their pupils.
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What we've tried to do,
as an organisation,
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is develop previsit resources -
resources that teachers can download
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before they visit the museum,
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resources that they can use during
their visit with their class group,
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and postvisit resources,
follow-up resources,
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that they can use
back in the classroom.
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That means that the learning
takes place before, during and after
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your visit
to National Museums Liverpool.
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(teacher) Have you had a go
of touching the materials?
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Looking at different artefacts from
the jars which they put organs in,
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and how wide they were, like, each
animal, and which went in which,
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and different objects,
and matching up to what it meant,
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and which order it came in.
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When you're reading it in a book,
it doesn't really go in very much,
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cos you're made to read it,
but when you watch something,
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it's action, and you're being shown
it, it's visual, so it's better.
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You're going to be looking
at the gods and their attributes.
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(Gareth) The value of museum trips
is bringing the whole thing to life.
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You can show people
pictures of mummies
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and Death Valley
and all the rest of it,
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but if they actually can experience
it by touching it and feeling it
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and holding the thing,
that is just an amazing experience,
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and that is really the value of it,
in my opinion.
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(Carol) I think that primary schools
are our bread-and-butter audiences.
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Primary schools visit us more
regularly than secondary schools.
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The secondary-school community is a
target development audience for us.
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The challenge undoubtedly...
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centres around
the ability of secondary schools
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to visit on a regular basis.
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The emphasis is undoubtedly on
academic achievement and attainment,
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and the best place to set that
is within a classroom environment,
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but I think we've got to find
new ways again of aiding that,
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and I think schools themselves
need to think more creatively
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and more diversely about
the support that we can give them,
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and undoubtedly, sort of post-14,
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we want to encourage the young
person to visit us independently.
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The problems we have,
I would suggest,
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when we think about
organising visits,
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are really the obvious ones,
starting with transport,
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with taking children out of school
in a secondary school,
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therefore missing
a number of lessons,
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most of which are unrelated
to the purpose of the visit.
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So I think we're at a time
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where we are all going to
have to think very creatively
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of ways in which these
sort of active links can happen.
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Far better, in many ways,
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is bringing museums
and their resources into school.
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(narrator) Creative thinking
has already begun,
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with the museum forming
a partnership with local schools
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through the
Excellence in Cities programme.
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(Carol) National Museums Liverpool
and Weatherhead
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have had a long-standing,
ongoing relationship
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that has been borne out of,
initially,
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individual teachers
within the schools.
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The deputy head Martin Boston
has made regular contact with us,
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picking up on opportunities that
he's heard of through the press,
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or looking on our webpages.
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We are aware that there is
a huge resource very close by.
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They are also aware, as she told us,
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that that resource doesn't
always connect with schools,
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and in particular
with secondary schools,
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where the logistics
of making those connections
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are sometimes
impossible to deal with,
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but I think we all agree
that there is a huge potential,
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and we still want to explore ways
of developing those links.
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We've been able to forge an ongoing
relationship with Weatherhead,
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where we've been able to support
some of their school developments,
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and also invite them to participate
in special programmes we've run.
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They've been
a fabulous support for us,
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because they've piloted programmes,
supported initiatives,
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given us direct feedback,
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and it's been of great benefit
to all, I would say.
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What we're gonna do now is
we're gonna go out of the museum,
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and out onto the public roads
and walk to the Conservation Centre.
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Now, obviously, we have to have a
quick talk about health and safety.
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When we go out, you've got to
get yourselves into twos in a line.
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Right? So get with your mates,
and you walk in twos.
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Now, when you get to traffic lights,
common sense, please.
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Don't rush across without us.
We all keep together,
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and there shouldn't be a problem.
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(narrator) The Conservation Centre
offers the chance to learn about
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preserving museum artefacts.
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Use the tip of the brush.
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That really is Egyptian papyrus.
it's the only place you can get it.
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We had that imported from Egypt for
you to do some hieroglyphic work on.
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(narrator) At the end, they produce
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a personalised memento
of their day at the museum.
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(man) Where possible, it's good
if the children take something home,
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and I don't mean something
that they bought in the museum shop.
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It could be something simple, like
a badge or something we give them,
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but how much better if the children
have made it themselves?
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So in Egyptian connections, they
have learned about hieroglyphics,
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they've learned about papyrus,
they've painted their own cartouche.
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It's a bookmark. They take it home
and may have it in 30 years' time.
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J-o-n-i-e-c-e.
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Joniece.
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(narrator) In school, the pupils
put their knowledge into action.
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(Gareth) You haven't time for that.
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I'm interested in what you learned
yesterday and how you learned it.
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Not just what it was,
but how you did it.
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Any questions?
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Well, the follow-up work,
in my opinion,
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should be done
as soon as possible after the visit.
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This isn't always possible,
I realise,
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but the day after, the day
after that, is really the ideal.
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When they're on the trip,
they should be working towards
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presenting something
in the days to come,
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so they have got a focus.
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And I think that the presentation
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should reflect some
of what they've learned on the day,
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possibly not just all about
ancient Egypt or whatever it is,
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but how they've actually learned.
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Well, we've got the opening slide,
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and then we have our photos
about the "Death on the Nile" show.
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And then we've got
the Canopic jars and the textiles
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and the kohl pots and amulets.
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Sometimes you'll forget
what you've done,
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and when you look at the pictures,
you go, "Oh, I remember doing that."
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They gave us fun things to do
to learn about it,
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rather than just giving us
a book just to read about it.
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It was interesting. I never knew
that history could be so fun,
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cos normally you expect it to be
quite boring when you go to museums.
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(girls) Welcome to our presentation
about our trip yesterday
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to the WorldLiverpoolMuseum
and Conservation Centre.
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(Gareth) This is a very good class,
a high-ability class,
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and they were exceptional,
in my opinion.
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They used all the information, or
nearly all the information they had.
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They had too much information.
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They had to sort out what they were
gonna put in those presentations.
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And we set them a deadline.
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Their presentations - high quality.
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Everybody took part in them.
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Nobody sat around
having done nothing.
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If they didn't say
something on the presentation,
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they certainly
wrote a script for it.
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You've got to take
all your things with you.
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I hope you've learned
a lot from that.
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You've been absolutely fantastic
pupils throughout,
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so make sure
you use the information...
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There's been pressure recently
on teachers not to take trips out,
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because of the health and safety
angle, and so on,
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and I think it really
restored my confidence, really.
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It made me realise that we should
do more of this sort of thing.
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Although it's a hassle for
the teachers, and a lot of effort,
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it's worth it in the end and you can
see the pupils really respond to it.
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And that's what we're here for
in the end, isn't it?
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Visiontext Subtitles: Sarah Johnston
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