An Array of Audiences
This week has been a little hectic, but has been a demonstration of some of the audiences that we are engaging with on the Richard III Project. Monday began with a visit to Humberstone Primary School, where two Year 5 classes, showed me their work on Richard III. It was wonderful to see how imaginative […]
“Now is the Winter…”
As it is getting chillier out there I thought I would post a reminder about the School of English and their “Now is the Winter…” competition. The idea is that you sign up and then submit a new interpretation of the opening soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Richard III. The competition is open to all Leicestershire secondary […]
November – a busy month
I had originally planned to try and blog once a week, but then the activities during November got in the way a little. The Scouts heritage badge session went well. I was a little unprepared for the noise and discussion that the activities created, but it didn’t take me long to realise that the discussion […]
A relatively quiet week
This week has been relatively quiet in relation to other weeks. This has mainly been down to a lack of meetings, that are useful, but often create more work for me and take up time to do that work. So I have been able to get on with some of the projects that need some […]
Brownies, Guides and Scouts Badges
Some of the requests I get are not conventional, but end up with very interesting outcomes. Recently a Scout group leader got in touch with me about putting together a package for the Scouts heritage badge. I had a look at the outline for the badge and realised what an excellent opportunity this was. So […]
Schools Outreach
Since April this year (2013), I have been working with the Schools and Colleges and Widening Participation teams here looking at schools and heritage outreach in relation to Richard III. Our aim has been to provide activities and resources to schools all over the UK. This began as simple ideas, bringing local primary schools onto […]
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