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Education Pitt: January 2016

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Learning for Schools, Families, Communities and Adults. Friday, 29 January 2016. Teacher Training at the University Museums. The University Museums hosted a training day on 21st January for over 80 trainee teachers as part of The Cherwell OTSA SCITT scheme. The Primary and Secondary School teachers were welcomed by Tom Hilton. Practical activity started in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. As teachers took part in an object icebreaker which was like a speed dating event! Secondary School t...

Education Pitt: Pitt Youth Action Team launches!

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Learning for Schools, Families, Communities and Adults. Friday, 21 October 2016. Pitt Youth Action Team launches! We have just launched the Pitt Youth Action Team, in partnership with OYAP Trust. We had our first meeting last Saturday. A group of young people came along to find out more about getting involved in the new initiative, as well as to try some creative activities. First of all we each made badges using our snazzy badge maker. Mask portrait with a Javanese dance mask and Chinese hat. Start plan...

Education Pitt: MA Student in Museums and Galleries in Education placed at the Pitt Rivers

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Learning for Schools, Families, Communities and Adults. Wednesday, 24 August 2016. MA Student in Museums and Galleries in Education placed at the Pitt Rivers. I am an MA student from UCL. Learning about Museums and Galleries in Education. As part of our course we have to do a placement at a museum, gallery or heritage site, and I have been quite incredibly fortunate in being able to do mine here at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Hattie Kimberley in the Museum © Pitt Rivers Museum. Based on the Haida totem pole.

Education Pitt: March 2016

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Learning for Schools, Families, Communities and Adults. Thursday, 24 March 2016. Work Experience Placement at the Museum. Every year the Education team facilitates a certain number of work experience placements to enable young people to find out about work in a museum. Here a local student , Jasmine (15), reports on what she got up to during a week at Pitt Rivers. This last week I'. Frog mask ©. Bird Mask ©. If the experience at the Pitt Rivers taught me anything, it'. African Mask ©. African mask ©.

Education Pitt: Arctic Explorer visits the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Learning for Schools, Families, Communities and Adults. Monday, 12 December 2016. Arctic Explorer visits the Pitt Rivers Museum. For our monthly Pitt Stop. Activities for families we invited along an artist who has just come back from a trip around the Arctic. This special Arctic Explorer is artist Jennifer Crouch who has spent the last couple of months travelling around the Arctic on a ship. Her trip was part of The Arctic Circle. Jennifer showing families her carved wooden maps © Pitt Rivers Museum.