Year 7 Family Learning Project with Birmingham Museums

We are really excited to launch our Family Learning Project with our new Year 7s who start with us this September.

Families are asked to visit one of the Birmingham Museums sites (there are 9 to choose from and of course families can choose to visit more than one) and find something that inspires them to produce a piece of work. They can visit from anytime now until the end of the Autumn Term.

The projects will be handed in at the start of January and there will be an exhibition of the work at school. Also selected items will be exhibited at one of the Birmingham Museums sites.

There are no limits on what the work can be or the inspiration in fact....

Here are some ideas though:

• A painting completed by the student (with guidance from Family) that was inspired by a piece of Art seen at BM&AG
• A film report on Matthew Boulton based on information found out about him from a visit to Soho House.
• A jewellery piece designed and made which has been inspired by the workshops at the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter.
• A short story inspired by a tale from the Civil War at Aston Hall.
• A piece of sculpture created as a reaction to a something seen in the new Birmingham Histories Gallery at BM&AG 
• A animation based on participation in Knight School this August at Blakesley Hall.
• A video diary about the life of a Tommie after seeing local WWI Living History group The Warwicks 1914-1918 at BM&AG
• A poem based on Sarehole Mill the location that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings.

We really want to encourage families to be involved in the learning that takes place. So please discuss it, work on it together, refine it and help present it to the highest standards. Each student's project should be handed in with maximum of one side of A4 explaining which Birmingham Museums site they visited and what their inspiration and why. We'd love to see a photo of you together at your BM site if possible too!

There are 9 sites to choose from that belong to the Birmingham Museums group:

• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Free entry to everyone)
• Aston Hall *
• Blakesley Hall *
• Museum of the Jewellery Quarter *
• Sarehole Mill *
• Soho House *
• Weoley Castle *
• Museums Collection Centre *
• ThinkTank **

*Free entry to Under 16s
**Charges apply to all - except Under 3s.

Please visit the websites for more information on locations, tickets and events happening through the rest of 2013.
http://www.bmag.org.uk/
http://www.thinktank.ac

With so many possibilities we can't wait to see what our new students come up with!