Supplementary schools
Our collection in your hands
Our collection in your hands gives supplementary schools access to Hackney Museum's object collection at a time which suits them, and when taught sessions in the Museum might not be available. The projects support learning across a range of formal and informal curriculum subjects at key stages 1-3 including: history, citizenship, ICT, English, drama, art, enterprise education, personal learning and thinking skills
When you book from this programme you will be provided with a teacher's pack which contains full colour flashcards, worksheets and lesson plans to enable you to organise a short, themed project with your class. Included is all the information you need to deliver you own simple object handling session in the museum so you can confidently bring the museum displays alive for your class.
Image: Young girl with statue of Daniel Defoe.
Moving Memories
Starting with the Anglo-Saxons, take a journey through Hackney's History. Along the way, your pupils will discover how Hackney was transformed during the Victorian period and how it was affected by WWII.
Moving Memories is an opportunity for your pupils to explore their own migration heritage against the backdrop of a wider investigation into the world wide roots of Hackney's people. You will be given 5 suitcases full of fascinating objects to explore in the Museum with your class and a teacher's pack and worksheets to enable you to organise and deliver the session as part of a small project on migration with your class.
Campaign: Abolition
From the first slave ship to leave British shores in 1562 to the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, discover the role of Britain in the transatlantic slave trade through stories and belongings of the British and African people who campaigned and fought for its abolition.
Image: Leg irons
Campaign: Abolition is an opportunity for your pupils to explore their role as active citizens against the backdrop of the historical campaign to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. You will be given objects and photographs to bring to life the stories and experiences of key people involved in the campaign to end enslavement and those who experienced the brutal trade first hand.
The teachers pack contains worksheets, lesson plans and full colour flashcards to enable you to organise and deliver the session as part of a small project on the campaign for abolition with your class.
This could result in pupils mounting their own campaign to take into other areas of school life or even further into the local community.
Image: Olaudah Equiano
Let's Celebrate
Travel around the world to discover more about festivals celebrated in Hackney today. Along their journey your pupils will use fascinating objects to explore how people come together to celebrate across the globe. Learn about the vibrancy of Holi, the Indian festival of Colour, the traditional lanterns of Tet Trung Thu in Vietnam, the origins of Caribbean carnival and how people in Turkey spend Seker Bayram with friends and family.
Let's Celebrate provides an opportunity for pupils to celebrate the cultures that flourish in Hackney today and find out more about the history and journeys of these traditions. The teachers' pack contains worksheets, lesson plans and flashcards to enable you to organise and deliver the session to support the study of festival, celebration, carnival and faith with your class.
Opening the Kurdish Box
Kurdish culture thrives in the UK and in Hackney especially. From photographs of the colourful and noisy celebrations of Newroz to intricately woven gloves, Opening the Kurdish Box is a collection of culturally valuable objects, photographs and curios has been collected by members of Hackney's Kurdish community in an attractive trunk for your pupils to explore either as a loan box at school or at Hackney Museum as part of a visit with your class.
Opening the Kurdish Box is an opportunity for your pupils to embrace Kurdish heritage in the UK and to strengthen Kurdish children's sense of identity within the community. It is a chance for all children to explore their own migration heritage against the backdrop of a wider investigation into the world wide roots of Hackney's people. The teacher's pack contains worksheets, flashcards and lesson plans to enable you to organise and deliver the session as part of a small project on Kurdish cultural heritage with your class.
Image: Kurdish gloves
More information and to book
For more information download Supplementary schools brochure 2011 (PDF, 1MB)
Our collection in your hands sessions are available after school, during school holidays and on Saturdays but you must book in advance with the Schools and Families Learning Officer Emma Winch on 020 8356 2529 or email emma.winch@hackney.gov.uk
Page updated: 4 Nov 2011
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