Schools4Museums is a web resource developed as part of the South East Schools Database Project by Renaissance South East to improve our understanding of schools’ use of museums services in the region.
It is designed to help individual museums by giving them password-protected access to recent information about how all the schools within their catchment area are using museums in the South East. This makes it easier for museums to plan their education services, produce more targeted communications and gather robust evidence that demonstrates the impact of their education activity.
MLA is now developing a similar resource nationally. However, Schools4Museums will continue to be available to museums in the South East via this website until development work on the national database is completed. Both sites are supported by the Strategic Commissioning Education Programme.
Schools Participation Reports
The data is also used to identify issues such as gaps in provision and non-participation by particular types of school, which need to be addressed across the region. Reports describing the key findings of Phase One (2002-04), Phase Two (2004-06) and Phase Three (2006-07) of this research are available below.
The summary report for Phase Three confirms that at least 66.7% of the South East’s primary schools and 57% of secondary schools took part in some form of museum-related learning during the academic year 2006-07, a total of 2,095 state schools. The report also looks at trends in participation. Many areas are showing strong levels of growth and there are significant increases in secondary school participation in particular.
New on Schools4Museums
- Real time maps and satellite views of all the schools located within a 90 minute drive time of each museum
- User guide
- Improved data entry checking system
- Case studies – more coming soon
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