Wednesday 22 January 2014

Schools enewsletter
Spring 2014

Exhibitions
The BP exhibition
Vikings: life and legend
6 March – 22 June 2014
Discover the Viking world in this major exhibition – the first at the British Museum for over 30 years. Swords and axes, coins and jewellery, hoards, amulets and religious images show how Vikings created an international network connecting cultures over four continents. At the centre of the exhibition will be the surviving timbers of a 37-metre-long Viking warship, the longest ever found.
Explore the exhibition with your students on one of the exclusive school mornings. There will also be a full taught programme for KS2 students and special schools, and a private view for teachers.
Supported by BP
Organised with the National Museum of Denmark and the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Ancient lives, new discoveries
22 May – 30 November 2014
Think you know mummies? Think again! Dramatic new discoveries are being revealed through new digital explorations inside funerary cases and mummies. This exhibition will bring you up close to eight people who lived in the Nile Valley over 4,000 years.
There will be workshops for Key Stage 2, a private view for teachers and supporting online resources.
Sponsored by Julius Baer
Technology partner Samsung
Teacher training
This is a unique opportunity to come face to face with familiar and unknown works of sculpture in the inspirational setting of the British Museum.
This free conference will provide you with models and strategies to deliver empowering financial education, which is now a compulsory part of Mathematics and Citizenship in the revised secondary National Curriculum.
Planning for the new primary History curriculum
Sat 29 Mar, 10.00–16.00
A Schools History Project Conference in partnership with the British Museum. Keynote presentations and a choice of five workshops led by some of the country’s most creative history educators will help you to plan for the new primary history curriculum.
School sessions and resources
KS2: Roman Britain video conferencing
Various dates in spring and summer terms
Connect to the Museum from your classroom to solve exciting challenges about archaeological treasure finds from Roman Britain.
Sponsored by Samsung
GCSE/A-Level Art and Design: Art Insight
Thu 21 Feb & Fri 22 Feb, 11.00–16.00
Your students will have the opportunity to explore and research themes and generate their own ideas. They will use the British Museum’s inspirational collection and a variety of different media under the expert guidance of our artist educators. Gallery workshops, tutorials and communal artwork will help to generate ideas and support practice.
Our image banks, designed for whiteboard use, bring stunning objects to your classroom. We have started off our new series on prehistoric Britain with image banks from Neolithic Britain, Bronze Age Britain and the people of Iron Age Britain.
 
Get involved
Join an advisory panel
We are currently building a virtual panel of teachers who will be emailed early versions of resources for comment, or who we will run ideas past. You can be anywhere in the UK or worldwide, and teach any age group, from nursery to tertiary.
For more details and to get involved, emaillearning@britishmuseum.org
 
Shop online
Save up to 60% on selected children’s books in our winter sale for a limited time only. Choose from fascinating titles on ancient civilisations, including ancient Greece and Rome. These colourful publications are a fun and engaging way to introduce some of the most fascinating of ancient cultures and are perfect for any budding historian.
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