Trainers:

• Jo Gillam (she/her) – GEM East Area Rep
• Nicky McIntosh – Museum Consultant and creator of the Museum Learning Works website
• Caroline Hammer – Senior Curatorial and Learning Officer, Chelmsford Museum
• Lucie Wheeler – Founding Director of RECAP Ltd and academic researcher at Anglia Ruskin University

What will be covered?

Context – museums and home education

In August 2024 Nicky McIntosh published her research into Working with Home Educated and Non-school Attending Children in the Museum and Gallery Sector, funded by Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant scheme. She will talk about her findings in this session.

Nicky is currently working with GEM to create a toolkit to support further work in museums and galleries with home
educators and children who can’t access school.

Case study – Chelmsford Museum

Caroline Hammer will describe how Chelmsford’s work with home educated children has grown organically, and benefits from good links with home education networks.

Context – the home education community

Lucie Wheeler is studying for a PhD in Home Education and home educated her daughter from the age of 14. In this session she will share her knowledge and expertise in the home education community and how she plans to help the heritage sector to develop their museum provision specifically for this group. Lucie has also set up a Working Group for those working in the sector and welcomes conversations with anyone interested in joining.

Who should attend?

Learning and engagement staff and volunteers; trustees with an interest in increasing engagement with children and families.

This session is appropriate for beginners. It is also a good refresher for those with some experience, with both opportunities to share good practice and discussion time to allow for a deeper dive into the topic.

Learning objectives

• Meet like-minded colleagues working across the region
• Share good practice
• Learn the benefits of working with home educators
• Know where to find key studies and research for advocacy

Booking your space

Please note: We require you to complete the full booking form in order to confirm your eligibility for the session. The main booking form questions will appear after you have been through the ‘check out’ process. If you do not complete this form we will be in contact and reserve the right to cancel your ticket if we do not receive a response.

Eligibility

MDSE is funded by Arts Council England (ACE) to support museums in the South East of England within ACE’s Accreditation scheme. The South East is defined as the local authority areas of:

• Bedfordshire (Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Borough)
• Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham)
• Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
• Hertfordshire
• Kent and Medway
• Norfolk
• Oxfordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
• West Sussex

We prioritise places on our training programmes for museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation. ACE publishes the official lists of Accredited and Working Towards Accreditationmuseums on its website. Where possible we will make places available for museums which do not meet these criteria but the number of places will vary depending on the event format.

London tickets

MDSE is working with Museum Development London (MDL) to deliver some of our training and development programmes.

If you are working or volunteering for a museum in London you are eligible to attend this session.

Terms & Conditions:

For full details of our programmes conditions, see our Terms and Conditions on our website

By booking a place on to a Museum Development South East training event, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• That you are from a South East museum which is in Arts Council England’s Museum Accreditation Scheme. Where this is not applicable you acknowledge that MDSE will facilitate your attendance if availability permits and that you or your organisation will pay any fees which may apply.
• It is a condition of receiving this ACE funded training that the online evaluation sent to the email address provided at the point of booking is completed by the specified deadline. This deadline is in the email notification unless a paper evaluation is specifically requested and submitted on the day of the training session.
• By booking a place you agree that you will make every endeavour to attend the event and you will give us at least 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel your booking. If you repeatedly cancel your booking without sufficient notice you agree that we may exercise our right to remove you from future event bookings.