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My Primary School Is at the Museum Action Research Project My Primary School is at the Museum Action Research Project Summative Evaluation Prepared by: Kate Measures, Lead On: 27/09/2016 Consultant and primary contact for this project Contact: [email protected] +44 (0) 7966298516 www.greedysquirrel.co.uk Registered address: ‘Bethany’, Ashton Hill, Corston, Bath BA2 9EY VAT Registration No: 905 2033 67 Mobile: 07966 298 516 [email protected] Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................ 4 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Project vision ............................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 The concept and its evolution ..................................................................................................................... 6 1.3 Key performance indicators ........................................................................................................................ 7 1.4 Project museum/school partnerships.......................................................................................................... 8 1.5 The backdrop of cultural engagement in partnership areas ...................................................................... 10 2. Sector context .............................................................................................................................................. 14 3. Evaluation approach ......................................................................................................................................... 16 3.1 The purpose of the evaluation process ..................................................................................................... 16 3.2 Evaluation Framework ............................................................................................................................... 16 3.3 Challenges to effective evaluation............................................................................................................. 18 4. The project journey ...................................................................................................................................... 20 4.1 Project development and start-up............................................................................................................. 20 4.2 Architecture of the live pilots .................................................................................................................... 21 4.3 Project delivery .......................................................................................................................................... 22 4.4 A day in the life of a museum school ......................................................................................................... 24 5. Summary of impacts of the live pilot ................................................................................................................. 29 5.1 Impacts for museums ................................................................................................................................ 29 5.2 Impacts for schools .................................................................................................................................... 36 5.3 Impacts for children................................................................................................................................... 42 5.4 Parents and the wider community ............................................................................................................ 52 6. Will my primary school ever be at the museum? ................................................................................................ 54 6.1 Evaluator’s discussion of the concept........................................................................................................ 54 7. Project recommendations ................................................................................................................................. 59 8.1 Strategic level ............................................................................................................................................ 59 8.2 Management level ..................................................................................................................................... 62 8.3 Operational level ....................................................................................................................................... 64 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................................................. 67 Bibliography ......................................................................................................................................................... 67 List of appendices................................................................................................................................................. 69 Table of figures Figure 1 Map showing the geographical spread of museums participating in pilot scheme with key ................... 9 Figure 2 Table showing a comparison of the Life Bank Children's Centre community and Hadrian Primary School community with the national average of people who have engaged wioth museums, heritage sites, or the arts, in percentage (Department for Culture, 2013) ..................................................................................... 11 Figure 3 Bar graph showing a comparison of the Life Bank Children’s Centre area and Hadrian Primary School area with the national average of people who have engaged with museums, heritage sites, or the arts, in percentage. (Department for Culture, 2013) ...................................................................................................... 12 Figure 4Bar graph showing average public engagement with the arts in Wales, comparing North Wales, South West Wales and South Central Wales, in percentages (Research, 2015) ............................................................ 13 Figure 5 Table presenting data from pilot school areas from the Heritage Index and Deprivation Indices (Communities, 2010) (RSA, n.d.) ......................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 6 Diagram to show the three areas of focus for the Evaluation Framework. ........................................... 17 Figure 7 Diagrammatic representation of the spectrum of learning facilitation by the cultural organisations seen within the pilots .......................................................................................................................................... 23 Figure 8 Bar graph showing pupil attendance in the five weeks prior to the live pilot compared with attendance during the live pilot for the two Swansea partnership pilots. ............................................................................. 45 Figure 9 Line graph showing average weekly pupil attendance expressed as a percentage across the five weeks of the two live pilots in the Swansea partnership. .............................................................................................. 46 Figure 10 The eight rungs of the ladder of citizen participation, after Arstein. ................................................... 66 Note to reader: When ‘teachers’ are mentioned, read ‘teachers and early years practitioners’. When ‘museums’ are mentioned, read ‘museums and art galleries’. When ‘project team’ are mentioned read ‘central project development team’. Executive summary At the heart of the My Primary School is at the Museum concept is a symbiotic strategy to co-locate schools with museums and galleries. As the result of a feasibility study, a live action research pilot was developed to test if there was proof of concept that there could be a range of beneficial outcomes from this approach; driven by a partnership between education, culture, business and academia. The project has been developed against a backdrop of: • Threatened museum services • A shortage of school places • Ever growing evidence for a wide range of benefits learning in cultural environments and through collections. The concept has synchronicity with many calls to action to bring the educational and cultural sectors closer together and for every child to have the right to participate in cultural learning. In the past, there have been a range of museum/school partnerships and some have cultivated a deeper, more long term relationship however this is the first time a school has been placed permanently into a museum in the UK. Three very different partnerships between schools and museums across the UK were created. Four pilots in these partnerships placed a class from the primary school or nursery into the museum for up to a term whilst continuing to deliver the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework or National Curriculum. Overall the live pilot successfully began to develop momentum in testing this concept and has demonstrated a range of impacts for all stakeholder groups. It has not yet scratched the surface of the promise of this approach but has started to deal with the logistical challenges and to identify issues.
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