The Heritage Centres along the Jurassic Coast, such as the Purbeck Marine Wildlife Reserve Centre, are equipped to help schools and colleges explore aspects of the World Heritage Site through trained educational staff and dedicated classroom and field site resources. In addition the Jurassic Coast Team in conjunction with Learning Development Partnership Devon offers a suite of classroom-based materials that are designed to integrate with the changing elements of the formal school curriculum 3-19 years. Many of these materials support and enhance school visits out onto the Jurassic Coast at sites such as Kimmeridge. Kimmeridge presents an ideal opportunity for teachers to deliver the new creative curriculum (at both Primary and Secondary levels) through innovative and exciting approaches.
Site visits to Kimmeridge can meet the needs of cross-curricular subject links through science, geography, citizenship and mathematics with an emphasis on enquiry-based learning out of the classroom.
For example a Primary School that chooses to focus on the Jurassic Coast for a term could develop a model of learning on Kimmeridge such as:
The proposed museum will have a learning programme that will meet the needs of education groups visiting the area. With the new Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto and also the introduction of the new Primary National Curriculum from 2011, teachers will have greater freedom and choice in the way in which learning is delivered to children.
A learning programme at Kimmeridge should be:
Adaptable where possible to meet the needs of schools
Exciting, engaging and relevant to children and young people
Incorporate learning in the outside environment where possible
Cross curricular in its approach
Opportunities for children and young people to lead in their own learning
The Kimmeridge Centre will develop its programme and activities which will:
Provide exciting opportunities to learn more about the specimens in the collection or the work of the Museum, e.g. open events, talks, tours fossil walks and lectures relating to the collection and the heritage of the area, and arts/craft activities specifically for school age children inspired by the collection and the heritage of the site.
Utilise special interest groups that have natural links with the Museum (e.g. geological groups, university students, school groups, stratigraphers, and Palaeontologists)
Provide family learning initiatives and opportunities for learning outside the classroom connected to the National Curriculum
Reflect the specific opportunities presented by the site of the new Museum. This will include promoting links with the Lulworth Heritage Centre and the Kimmeridge Marine centre situated at Kimmeridge Bay run by the Dorset Wildlife trust through activities such as walks, tours and fossil identification.
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