We have been busy working in partnership with
the British Museum to run a project with Jack Taylor School. We have worked closely with a key stage two class and their teacher from a special school in the Swiss Cottage area of Camden.
The project explored children’s sensory responses to new experiences in the museum, the colour of the museum was gold, the smell was sandal wood, the feel was marble and the sound was folk music! The children benefited from repeated visits to the museum with follow up sessions run back in the classroom. The children learnt a song with makaton signs, enjoyed dancing to the folk music and exploring the museum in different ways. The follow up sessions were often messy and lots of fun, involving glue and glitter and different materials to create mood boards after each visit to the museum.
The children will have their worked celebrated at an Engaging Places event in July, which launches an exhibition of the work in Greenwich and then at Wolverhampton Art gallery.
