Warwickshire Heritage Learning shortlisted for prestigious award.

04/04/2022

The Warwickshire Heritage Learning team were excited to learn they have been shortlisted for Learning Programme of the Year at the Museum and Heritage Awards 2022. The Museum and Heritage Awards celebrate the best in museums, cultural and heritage visitor attractions. To reach the shortlist of five from hundreds of entries is a huge achievement.

The team has been shortlisted for their redesign of the offer to schools, launched September 2021.

Rebecca Coles, Senior Learning and Community Engagement Officer says

‘We had no intention of returning to business as normal after such a long disruption to our service. In about 6 months we redesigned our offer, creating a loans box subscription service using permanent collection objects and started the transformation of our workshops using a narrative immersion framework. We worked with Rebecca Bell, Integrate Education, to learn how to design narrative immersion workshops and deliver them.’

‘We’re proud of the redesigned workshops, the narrative immersion frameworks use drama techniques, emotionally engaging learners and encouraging them to be creative thinkers. I’m thrilled that the hard work and achievements of the team has been recognised by the Museum and Heritage Awards’.

The Museum and Heritage Awards ceremony takes place 11th May and in the meantime Warwickshire Heritage Learning are carrying on with the redesign of their workshops at St Johns House Museum, Warwick, and their outreach workshops delivered in school classrooms.

Look out for their Victorian Summer Celebration workshop at St Johns House Museum that uses the narrative of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations at Warwick Castle for 3,000 school children to frame the day.

You can contact Rebecca Coles to discuss any of your Heritage Education requirements by emailing rebeccacoles@warwickshire.gov.uk