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Hull: Yorkshire's Maritime City: the People's Choice Competition Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City: The People’s Choice Competition Resources and activities for primary schools taking part in the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City Project’s People’s Choice Competition. For Primary School Years 4-6 Contents This booklet contains the following: 1. The People’s Choice Competition 2. How to take part 3. Object Short list 4. Ideas and Activities for Pupils 5. Competition Resources 1. The People’s Choice Competition Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City (HYMC) is a multi-million pound project which seeks to connect local people with Hull’s unique maritime history. This will be achieved through the redevelopment of five historic sites: the Hull Maritime Museum, Dock Office Chambers, the North End Shipyard, the Arctic Corsair and the Spurn Lightship. Between March and June 2020, we are inviting Hull’s primary schools to choose 14 objects – from a short list of 35– to go on display at the Hull Maritime Museum as part of our People’s Choice Competition. The competition will run between March and Friday 19th June. In the People’s Choice Competition pupils, in Years 4-6, will be asked to select their favourite object from the short list and write a label about it. The Hull Maritime Museum This label should tell the reader a story about the object. The story could be based on fact or be one that is completely made-up! Pupils can decide to use prose, illustrations or a mixture of both to tell their story. Members of the HYMC team will judge the submitted labels and select 14 winners. The 14 labels and the objects they describe will then go on display in the Hull Maritime Museum when it reopens. Pupils who have had a label selected will receive a certificate, a £20 book token and a free trip to the Arctic Corsair or Hull Maritime Museum for a class in their school. For more information about The People’s Choice Competition, please get in touch with Charles Trzeciak, Community and Schools Learning Officer at: E: [email protected] 2. How to take part This booklet contains all the information and resources you need for your class to take part in The People’s Choice Competition. Step 1 – Choosing objects from the short list a. Pupils should choose an object from the short list that can be found in this booklet. The short list contains pictures and information about each object as well as a series of prompt questions to help pupils come up with ideas for their labels. Larger images of the objects in the short list can be downloaded from the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City Website on our Primary Schools page. /maritimehull.co.uk/get-involved/learning/primary-schools Step 2 – Coming up with ideas for labels a. As well as large images of the objects in the short list, there are some other useful resources to download from our Primary Schools page on the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City Website: A digital copy of this Resource Pack A Project Pack which your pupils can use to come up with ideas for their labels b. The Hull Museums Collections Website contains lots of useful information in its Hull and the sea section. /museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/ c. The Hull Curriculum, an online learning platform run by Heritage Learning, has lots of topics which explore Hull’s maritime past. These include Hull Docks, Hull’s Polar Explorers and The Triple Trawler Disaster. The Hull Curriculum is a resource which can be used by Hull Curriculum Member Schools. For more information visit: /www.heritage-learning.com/uncategorised/a-curriculum-for-hull Step 3 – Creating your labels a. When creating their labels, pupils should use the branded label templates which can be found at the rear of this booklet (or at the rear of the Project Pack). b. Remember labels should tell a story – either factual or fictional – about the chosen object using prose, pictures or both. For example, a factual label, about this object could read: ‘’This silver coin was made in Mexico in the 18th Century. In 1743, the coin was being carried on board a Dutch ship called the ‘Hollandia’. However, the ship struck a rock off the Isle of Scilly, just off the coast of Cornwall, and sank! The shipwreck, and this coin, were found again in the 1970s. Alternatively, a fictional label, could read: ‘’This silver piece of eight was stolen from a Spanish ship by the famous pirate Captain Swashbuckle. We think the coin made its way to Hull when Captain Swashbuckle stopped in the city in 1714 in order to buy a Hull Pattie. It was later donated to the Hull Maritime Museum’’. Step 4 – Submitting your labels a. The deadline for entries to the competition is 5pm on Friday 19th June. b. Competition entries should be sent to Charles Trzeciak, Community and Schools Learning Officer by post or email: Charles Trzeciak Community and Schools Learning Officer Heritage Learning 35 High Street HU1 1NQ Email: [email protected] c. Submitted entries must be accompanied by a Competition Entry Sheet, one for each class. A copy of this can be found at the rear of this booklet. Step 5 – Selecting the winners a. The 14 competition winners will be announced on Monday 6th July. b. Entries will be judged by a panel made up of members of the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City team. 14 winning labels will be selected and they, along with the objects they describe, will be put on display at the Hull Maritime Museum when it reopens. c. Pupils who have had a label selected will receive a certificate, a £20 book token and a free trip to the Arctic Corsair or Hull Maritime Museum, when the sites reopen, for a class at their school. Object Shortlist The following 35 objects are part of the short list for The People’s Choice Competition. Your pupils can use the image, description and prompt questions that accompany each object to help them come up with stories for their labels. Larger images, along with descriptions and prompt questions, can be downloaded from the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City Website on our Primary Schools page. /maritimehull.co.uk/get-involved/learning/primary-schools Some of the prompt questions are factual, whilst others (written in blue) may help your pupils come up with more imaginative stories. Try encouraging your pupils to look at the images and prompt questions before they read the object information. What ideas will they come up with? A longer list of prompt questions, which your pupils can use to help them investigate their selected artefact, can be found on the Object Prompts worksheet at the rear of this document. If you, or any of your pupils, would like more information about any of the objects in the short list, then why not send us a tweet (@HullMaritime) or a Facebook message (@HullMaritime)? We are always happy to help! Object Description and Prompt Questions Prompt Questions Object One: Spanish silver piece of Do you think this object is eight, dating from c.1720. valuable? Why do you think it is so battered and worn? Why might a lot of people have wanted this object? Where do you think this object was found? Was it hidden somewhere? Object Two: Oil on glass painting of Who might have wanted to have the ‘Director’ of Hull, 1848. this painting? What power moved this ship across the oceans? What cargo do you think this ship carried? What dangers do you think a ship like this faced on its voyages? Object 3: Bible used on ships in Do you think this object was used quarantine in the Humber during the on ship or on land? cholera plague. It must have helped In what situations do you think it to comfort sailors whilst they were was needed? confined to their ships. Who do you think owned this object? Why do you think this object is in a museum about the sea? Object 4: Megaphone made of metal. Why do you think this object was This object would have helped needed at sea? someone to be heard in noisy places. What sort of messages might have been called through this object? Can you imagine a time when this object would have been useful on a ship? Imagine that it was YOU who had to use this object. What did you say? Who heard this message? What was the reply? Object 5: Model of the steamer Why do you think this object was ‘Yorkshireman’. This ship took people made? from Bridlington on trips during the Why doesn’t the vessel have sails? summer holidays. Do you think the vessel travelled on short or long journeys? Imagine that this is your first time on a boat. Why are you on the boat? Where is it going? Object 6: Set of miniature whaling How do you think these tools tools made from silver and bone. would have been used? These are copies of the tools which Could these be large tools for a would have been used by sailors to tiny creature, or very small tools hunt whales. for a giant creature? What is the creature like and what does it use them for? Object 7: A silver pocket watch given Do you think this watch might to George Copping, a Hull sailor, by have been important to its the brother of Henry Oelcker, a owner? German sailor, as a present for How might they have come by it? saving Henry’s life.
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