Educational Resource Boxes for Loan ‘The children were really inspired by the topic and loved looking through the clips and newspaper articles.’

Our pricing strategy/offer

We have a number of options available:

Option A Resource box hire ONLY (one box, priced for one half term) £50*

Option B Resource box hire and Hampshire Record Office visit (one half term’s hire and a behind the scenes tour for up to 10 students, 1.5hrs ) £100 (additional students charged at £3 pp).*

*VAT: VAT at the current rate will be chargeable to non-HCC schools. HCC schools (excluding academies) will not be charged VAT.

About us: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies & Wessex Film and Sound Archive

Hampshire Record Office is home to Hampshire Archives and Local Studies and Wessex film and Sound Archive. At our Winchester site we have 8 miles of shelves containing archives relating to Hampshire and Hampshire families, and film and sound archives relating to central southern England.

Wessex Film and Sound Archive contains 38,000 items of film and sound relating to the region, from early advertisements to amateur film footage. Our oldest material dates from the earliest years of cinema (1898) and our collections chart the progression of the art form in the region from cinema of attractions to modern day filmmaking.

Film is a fantastic source for use in schools and offers many opportunities for learning that can enliven many topics. ‘The box is very useful in terms of exciting the students’ imagination. ‘The teachers’ notes were fab as I could read through as the film played.’

About our resource boxes

Our boxes are designed to offer a range of primary source material to allow a class to conduct its own project over a number of weeks, with archive film at the centre of the journey.

We loan out boxes for a half term at a time, to allow the materials to be used as fully as possible during the course of the project.

We currently have 2 boxes on offer; each uses a different film as its focus. ‘The students really enjoyed all aspects of the day. They felt as if they were treated in a grown up manner.’

Resource Box: The Adventures of the Girl Pat

On 1st April 1936 a small fishing boat went missing from Grimsby, after a planned fishing trip in the . The crew were feared lost at sea, but no sign of the wreck could be found. The boat was then seen at Dover, then and then Corcubion, Spain, but just as soon as she was sighted, she disappeared again!

The nation was rapt and now convinced that the skipper was stealing the boat! Sightings abounded in increasingly exotic locations, with the national and local press keeping everyone at home on tenterhooks.

Where was this boat heading? Commentators couldn’t decide, but keenly guessed at the exotic and daring motives of the crew…treasure hunting, gun running, pearl fishing! The crew were eventually arrested in Georgetown, Guiana, some 8,000 miles from where they started. The public interest was such that an article was put out to recruit a crew to bring the Girl Pat home and a number of Hampshire residents were recruited to the task. The Girl Pat finally docked in ’s Camber dock on 10th May 1937 and it is this moment that our film depicts.

‘The Adventures of the Girl Pat’ is a fantastic opportunity for pupils to learn about a real life sea faring adventure through resources provided by WFSA. Our box is a comprehensive resource pack containing over 50 primary sources for students to analyse, as well as clips of the film (on USB and DVD), links to other online resources and suggestions for tasks/projects. The pack also contains an atlas similar to the one used in the voyage, a reproduction compass, film can and autobiography of the skipper.

This box could work well across a number of curriculum areas at KS2 including: History – (hi2.2.1 Local History) or (hi2.2.2 Extended Chronological study), Geography: Ge2.1.4(a-c) Geographical Skills and Fieldwork, Art & design: Ar2.1.2 Improve mastery of art and design techniques in the illustration of this story, English: En4.2.2 (a-d) Comprehension. En4.3.3 (a-d) Composition (possible use of other stories such as Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo), English: En3.1i Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates.

Resource Box: A Moment in Time

In 1937, Fred Veale, a veteran of the First World War and porter at the South Western Hotel in , took a cine camera and decided to begin filming the things he saw around him. Fred produced a number of reels of film – the film stock itself was very expensive, but what he chose to film

gives us a lasting record of a number of historic events as well as an insight into the goings on at a busy Thirties hotel.

Topics featured:

• The Paris Exposition of 1937

• Family life in 1930s/Southampton between the wars

• The arrival of the Habana (refugee children from Spain –Spanish Civil War)

• Coronation of George VI

This is a great opportunity for a local history project at KS2 or KS3, and could fit within the following curriculum areas: KS2: (hi2.2.1 Local History) or (hi2.2.2 Extended Chronological study); KS3: History: Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day, World history. Citizenship

‘The visit was pacey and the change of adults leading the sessions was good for keeping students interested.’

Behind the Scenes Tour

Duration: 1 hour 30mins

Location: Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester SO23 8TH

Parking: Please note there is no parking on site and that alternative arrangements must be made. There is one accessible space available on site which can be used for pick up and drop off only, by prior arrangement.

Booking: Visits can take place on Mondays and Thursdays subject to staff availability. Please suggest your preferred dates at booking; we will do our best to accommodate your preference.

Visit content: Behind the scenes tour of Hampshire Archives and Local Studies and Wessex Film and Sound Archive.

You’ll visit our on site cinema and watch archive film. You’ll see where we transfer and care for all of our archive film and sound and have the opportunity to see a Steenbeck viewer in operation (subject to group size).

Facilities on site: Your class will have use of our Education Work Room for the duration of your visit, where coats and bags can be stored. This space has the potential to be used as a lunch space, but please confirm your requirements on booking. Our small courtyard garden can also be used for lunch if required.

‘The students loved being able to handle old documents and see the ‘book hospital’ as one student called the conservation section’

How to book

Email: [email protected] with the dates you would like the box (state if you would like book a visit as a package) and which box you would like to book.

You will receive a confirmation email regarding your booking and/or you can enter into discussion to find a suitable date. The total cost for the loan/visit will be stated on this email.

Once your visit has been confirmed, please arrange for payment to be made.

Once payment has been received, you will be emailed the teacher’s notes so that they can be used in your planning.

How do I get the box/return it?

You can arrange to collect the box from Hampshire Record Office in Winchester, by pre-arrangement only.

Or

Hampshire County Council schools can have the box delivered, and returned by, the courier service. It is the school’s responsibility to label the box appropriately on return to courier CA 13 Hampshire Record Office.

You must ensure the box is on the courier before the end of the half term in which you have booked it for, to ensure subsequent bookings can take place.

Resource Box Terms and Conditions

 Boxes are loaned on a half term basis. If schools wish to return boxes sooner than the end of the term, they may do so, but no discount will be offered.  Boxes are priced at £50 (non HCC schools will be charged VAT at 20%)  A cancellation fee will be charged for loans that are cancelled at less than three weeks’ notice (£25 plus £5 administration cost). Loans that are no longer required but have not been cancelled will be charged in full.  We will make a charge for replacement of any lost or damaged artefacts. The contents of the box are worth in excess of £200 and while we do not ask for a deposit, we will charge for replacement of lost or damaged items up to the maximum value of the box.  Late returns or failure to return: we ask that you please ensure that your box is returned in time to be checked and dispatched for the next half term. Failure to do so will incur an additional half term charge.  If a box is not returned at all, the full value of the box will be charged.  If we are not able to supply the box on time due to late return from a previous school, we will supply as many of the resources as possible digitally until we are able to get the box to you. Should this delay be considerable, a full or partial refund will be paid –subject to the circumstances in each case.  We will endeavour to supply the full box contents as listed. If items have been lost or damaged by the preceding school we will either supply a digital copy or a hard copy replacement (dependent on the circumstances).

Behind the Scenes Tour Terms and Conditions

 Schools are required to conduct their own risk assessments prior to visit and forward these on to us.  Advance (more than 3 weeks) cancellations are not chargeable but cancellations made within three weeks will incur a charge of 50% of the minimum visit price.  Tour content will vary from visit to visit but will give a good overview of what we do on site.