MLA South East Internet - Advocacy resources

Designed for Museums:

Creating museum partnerships with LEA advisers and schools
By Ian Coulson, History and Geography Adviser, Kent County Council and Adrian Norton, Humanities Consultant, Four S (Surrey School Support Services)

Creating museum partnerships with LEA advisers & schools focuses on the shared agendas between the museum and school sectors over the past 30 years and contains ‘10 top tips’ for working with LEA advisers and schools

Progressing museum partnerships with schools
By Joy McAlpine Black, Access and Learning Adviser and Sarah Lewis, Creative and Cultural Entitlement Officer, MLA South East

Progressing museum partnerships with schools enables museums to develop and strengthen their work with schools through the principles of cultural entitlement. Practical tools for self assessment include audits and a development grid based on ILfA to help towards embedding museum learning within the curriculum.

If you would like a hard copy of these resources, please contact MLA South East on 01962 858844.

Key agendas identified by LEA advisers

MLA South East works in partnership with a core group of 8 LEA Advisers who already champion museum learning within their work across the region.

The LEA Advisers wrote the following papers to help museum staff understand the shared priorities between our sectors and help schools to understand how museums can contribute to them.

Every Child Matters:	Every Child Matters in Museums (87 kb) - Jeanne Lapsley, Service Development Manager, West Berkshire County Council
Personalised Learning:	Making Learning Personal (59 kb) - Simon Lockwood, History and Geography Adviser, Buckinghamshire County Council
Extended Schools:	Extended Schools- opportunities for Museums to contribute (930 kb) - Shannon Moore, Senior Adviser, Oxfordshire County Council
Attainment and Achievement:	Museums Enrich School Improvement (47 kb) - Hilary Ferries, Primary Schools’ Adviser, Brighton & Hove City Council
Creative Learning:	Museums Promote Creativity (69 kb) - Hilary Ferries, Primary Schools’ Adviser, Brighton & Hove City Council

Mehar Brar,School Improvement Adviser (Science), Slough Borough Council, has also written a paper called Towards Museum Champions (80 kb) about learning organisations as a strategic focus for advocacy, which offers suggestions of ways for reaching them.

Local Education Authorities
A list of and hyperlinks to Local Education Authorities in the South East