Best Practice

Case study: An in-school museum

The arts are at the heart of life and the curriculum at Sidegate Primary School, including a pupil-curated, in-school museum. Jane Ryder and Emma Annis explain more

History at Sidegate fires pupils’ curiosity about the past in Britain and the wider world while engaging our teachers and pupils across a range of curriculum subjects. At the core of this is sustaining and developing a culture of enquiry.

Pioneered by our history coordinator, our child-curated museum has been a major project at Sidegate this year. An exciting enterprise, it continues to provide pupils with opportunities to develop and curate the Sidegate museum – to share artefacts and showcase learning with the school and wider community.

Our museum is a school-wide project which enables each year group to play a part within its creation. Each year group has its own section where they can display and celebrate one of their recent topics. Topics on display in the museum include science, history and geography and children’s work on display comes from a varied and cross-curricular approach.

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