GEM Cymru Opportunities for Museums
GEM Cymru – Curriculum for Wales Training
Numeracy in Heritage Learning
14th March 3.30pm – 5.00pm
Museum consultant and teacher Tom Briggs will lead a session giving you some top tips on how to spot the maths hiding in your museum, gallery, archive or library and how you can encourage students to use numeracy skills in your existing learning sessions/digital resources.
Loans Boxes
In this session Emily Nelson from Leeds Museums & Galleries will take you through the practicalities and how to’s of setting up a loan box scheme and will show the benefits in terms of income generation and engagement with schools as well as how to source resources for boxes.
Creative Writing in Heritage Learning
25th March 2024 3.30pm – 5.00pm
Wales based teacher and writer Emma Benyon will lead a session that will help you enable the young people you work with to be inspired by heritage collections and to explore their ‘Cynefin’ through creative writing activities and techniques. Delegates will also be able to explore their own creativity in this workshop!
GEM Cymru Museum Learning Mentor Programme
Mentors
We are looking for experienced museum learning practitioners with an interest in museum mentoring to work with selected museums in Wales to help them design, develop and test out new resources and services that relate to the new curriculum, please download this document for information and how to apply.
Museums
We are seeking applications from accredited museums in Wales who would like to work with experienced museum learning practitioners to help your staff design, develop and test out new resources and services that relate to the new curriculum, please download this file for information and how to apply.
GEM Cymru Learning Support Fund
GEM Cymru are pleased to announce an extra round of Learning Support Grant funding for February / March 2024.
This is a “quick turnaround” application process with a deadline of 26th February for eligible accredited museums* to apply for up to £1,500 to spend by the end of March 2024.
After consultation with stakeholders, GEM Cymru are keen to support applications that use digital engagement as the focus for their project.
Please see the attached guidance and application form for more details.
*This funding is open to eligible accredited museums that have not received a grant from GEM Cymru in 2023-24.
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