MLA South East - Progressing Museum Partnerships with Schools

This document illustrates the programme?s focus on museums and cultural entitlement.
Use this booklet to develop and strengthen partnership work and to explore the museum learning aspect of cultural entitlement.

This booklet is intended to help museums to develop and strengthen their partnership work with schools by:

• Examining a definition of cultural entitlement for
  young people
• Offering self-assessment tools for both museum and school partners as practical aids towards cultural entitlement
• Giving examples of how some museums are working towards cultural entitlement

Through careful planning and consultation with teachers and pupils, museum learning can be embedded within and beyond the curriculum in a sustained, progressive and structured way. This will enable museums and schools to develop the museum aspect of cultural entitlement together.

MLA South East is the voice for the museum, library and archive sector in the South East of England, covering the historic counties of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, East and West Sussex, Surrey and Kent. We work in partnership with the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and the eight other regional agencies to support communities and change lives through museums, libraries and archives.
MLA South East?s Access and Learning Team led the regional implementation of the national Strategic Commissioning Programme, funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Its aims were to broker and build the capacity of museums to work with schools, to meet the demand for museum learning in schools and to encourage museums and schools to work in partnership.


Our work focused on developing the museum aspect of cultural entitlement to over 4,000 young people in over 100 schools, together with a major regional advocacy programme to local education authority advisers in all 19 authorities. A grants programme, ?Learning Links?, enabled 60 museum and archive professionals and teachers to have placements in each other?s organisations and to participate in Continuous Professional Development in order to learn how to make the most of museum learning for schools. A South East database was also developed to give a picture of the 65% of schools that are participating in museum learning.

This document illustrates the programme?s focus on museums and cultural entitlement.

MLA Every Child Matters	MLA South East

Attachments

• Click here to download the 'Progressing museum partnerships with schools' booklet (pdf) (946562k File)

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