| Teacher Interview: Question 7: Which curriculum areas do you
use the loan objects to support? |
Conclusion: 92% (23) of 25 teachers used the loans to teach nearly every
area of the curriculum with the exception of Numeracy. This finding verifies that loans
are not just used for History but are recognised by teachers as basic resources.
The loans were used most in History (87% of teachers), Art & Design (61%), Science
(43%) and English/Literacy (39%). This was followed by RE/SMSC/PSE/Citizenship (30%),
Geography (30%) and Technology (26%). They were also used in PE & Dance (13%) and
Music (9%).
Summary of findings:
23 teachers mentioned 78 uses of the loans in response to this question.
Teachers L and O did not use the loans other than for display. These uses fall
into all subject areas except Mathematics and Numeracy. The following is a breakdown of
the number of times these subjects were mentioned:
- · 26% (20) History.
- · 18% (14) Art and design.
- · 13% (10) Science.
- · 12% (9) English and Literacy.
- · 9% (7) Religious Education.
- · 9% (7) Geography.
- · 8% (6) Technology.
- · 4% (3) PE and Dance
- · 3% (2) Music.
23 teachers answered this question clearly. The following information demonstrates
how many teachers mentioned these subject areas:
- · 87% (20) of teachers mentioned History: Teachers A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, M,
N, P, Q, T, V, W, X and Y.
- · 61% (14) of teachers mentioned Art and Design: Teachers A, B, E, F, G, I, J, K, N, Q,
R, S, T and U.
- · 43% (10) of teachers mentioned Science: Teachers A, B, E, F, G, I, J, K, N and P.
- · 39% (9) of teachers mentioned English and Literacy: Teachers A, B, C, D, G, J, K, N
and Q.
- · 30% (7) of teachers mentioned RE/SMSC/PSE/Citizenship: Teachers A, D, E, G, J, P and
T.
- · 30% (7) of teachers mentioned Geography: Teachers A, D, E, F, I, J and K.
- · 26% (6) of teachers mentioned Technology: Teachers A, D, G, I, J and K.
- · 13% (3) of teachers mentioned PE and Dance: Teachers A, G and J.
- · 9% (2) of teachers mentioned Music: Teachers A and B.
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| Teacher Interview: Question 7: Individual Answers: |
Key: A "user" is a school that already uses the loan
service. A "non-user" is a school that does not currently use the loan service.
1. Teacher A: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
All of them. One subject runs into another. From the African
paintings, we went on to do music and movement, for example.
2. Teacher B: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: Mostly
Science: Occasionally. We had a loan on planets some time ago when we
were learning about the position of the sun and the earth.
Art and Design: From portrait loans we looked at the styles of the
artists. We also draw the artefacts and think about aspects such as shading and colouring.
English and Literacy: The books they did their writing in today were
their draft books for literacy.
Music: We have ordered instruments from around the world.
3. Teacher C: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: Now and then comparisons.
English and Drama and Literacy: For the SATs story "Fly by
Night", the owls were a stimulus for words that complemented the stories/letters the
children wrote. Some of them had to write a letter to describe their first flight as an
owl.
4. Teacher D: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History and Geography: With the India and Pakistan objects.
Technology: Looking at how things are made.
RE and SMSC and PSE and Citizenship: We do have our own artefacts for
RE.
English and Drama and Literacy: Label making.
5. Teacher E: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: We used the Victorian dolls to look at clothing.
Geography and Science: Geography is linked with Science when we look
at loans that connect to the environment. In the lesson today we will look at food chains
using the loans.
RE and SMSC and PSE and Citizenship: We have borrowed the Sikh box.
Art and Design: We drew the Viking boat.
6. Teacher F: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History and Geography: Humanities.
Science: We did "The Earth and Beyond" and used some nice
models from you.
Art and Design: We are using the William Morris patterns this time.
7. Teacher G: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: Investigations such as the one you watched today.
Science: When we were doing "Sound", we borrowed a model of
an ear and saw the shapes and relative sizes of the parts.
Art and Design & Technology: We created clay boats from the boat
you leant us.
RE and SMSC and PSE and Citizenship: This came out of WWII loans with
the connection to Judaism.
(Literacy and PE examples given in later answers)
8. Teacher H: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: "Clues about the Past" work. The children work out
what they can tell about the past from the artefacts as evidence. We are in the process of
coming to terms with the new QCA documents. The artefacts fit into these.
9. Teacher I: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History & Geography and Technology & Art & Design: Using
the Abbey tiles to make a connection with our local church tiles. Then designing and
creating our own clay tiles.
Science: We looked at the models for their different materials. The
Huntley-Palmer biscuit tin is magnetic. We put out all sorts of different metals to see
which ones were magnetic and which ones weren't.
10. Teacher J: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
English and Drama and Literacy: I think you need to combine English
with Literacy. We have done descriptive writing, story writing and the building up of
characters for drama from loan objects. The latter has been done through clothes:
"You would wear this if you were…"
Science: Even though the objects we have had are not obviously
connected to Science, there are often some connections that we make use of.
Technology: We focused on this very much this time through the
models.
Art and Design: Pencil sketches are the start for every artefact.
PE and Dance: Dances have included those based on the mechanisms of
clocks we have borrowed and also dresses - "How would you move in this type of
dress?"
SMSC: I would put SMSC with PSE and Citizenship. This would link to
caring for material objects and thinking about the reasons why, especially focusing on
"Who did these objects belong to?". The actual handling and how you behave when
touching the objects relate to this.
Religious Education: We do have our own collection of artefacts for
teaching RE but they tend to be miniature versions of the real thing which is not very
satisfactory. We could do with borrowing some real artefacts as better examples.
History: We have used the vehicle models to teach about history. We
do a lot of questioning based on then and now as well as sequencing.
Geography: We tend to borrow archival material like pictures for
covering this area.
11. Teacher K: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have
you used?
Literacy: The toys were a source for writing stories.
Science: We used a loan on plastics to explore materials.
Technology: A loan of shoes inspired our own design/making of shoes.
Art and design: We used to have the framed pictures when they were
available. We made paintings with dots after looking at Seurat; painted our own fruit
bowls looking at still life pictures; and other famous artists - used for imitating style.
History: We used loans mostly to teach history. If we are doing
Victorian schools then we will incorporate the artefacts into sessions; if doing Houses
and Homes, we use the baking and washing things. We also use the artefacts for harvest -
carts and windmills. I really like the models of people and the model ships - they're
safer behind perspex!
Geography: Today we have looked at artefacts from another country.
Also with the toys we think about toys from different countries.
12. Teacher L: User: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have
you used?
(The teacher mentioned she would use the artefacts in the following ways in the
future. These answers are therefore not included in the conclusions)
English and Drama: She would have the children write
descriptions
Art and Design: Observational drawing
History & Geography and RE: The school already has their own
collection of RE artefacts
13. Teacher M: Non-user: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: History is the main thing. We have been out of the habit of
using the loans since the reorganisation. We also used to use the library red box service
too. Now we use our own.
14. Teacher N: Non-user: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History and Science and Art & Design - Definitely.
Literacy: The work is often linked to Literacy in the way they
present it.
15. Teacher O: Non-user: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
(As these answers do not apply to the Reading Museum Service's loans, the answers are
not included in the conclusions)
We did not use your loans at all. But we use our own to support -
History: Tudors and the Victorians, the Ancient Greeks.
Science: Models of the body.
RE and SMSC and PSE and Citizenship
Art and Design: We used to use your pictures regularly; we like to
use pictures (prints of famous paintings - Van Gogh sunflowers)
16. Teacher P: Non-user: Primary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History and Science and RE: Interactive displays in class
17. Teacher Q: User: Secondary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: I used the WWII objects for History.
Art and design: All the time.
English and Drama and Literacy: I've used the cases in English
especially for speaking and listening as well as writing.
18. Teacher R: User: Secondary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
Art and Design: I saw the description of the project written by a
student teacher involving a number of textile processes and products created in response
to Javanese puppets and Chinese dolls.
19. Teacher S: User: Secondary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
Art and design: See descriptions of work in observation.
20. Teacher T: User: Secondary
Art and design and History
RE: They get a Koran and other artefacts and use a Muslim student for
the handling of them.
21. Teacher U: User: Secondary
Art and design: See observation.
22. Teacher V: Non-user: Secondary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: I have used the figures and have had the students draw and
compare them.
I haven't used loans since my teaching practice ten years ago. I don't see the museum
loans as relevant to supporting the "big issues" we cover. We do Medieval
history, the Tudors and Stuarts, and the Industrial Revolution. All your artefacts are
local and therefore are not relevant. (This is not actually the case)
23. Teacher W: Non-user: Secondary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: We will do an evidence exercise with 9.2. With other groups
they are an inspiration for practical work such as the hierarchical mobile showing the
levels of Native American society and the creation of models later in the term.
24. Teacher X: Non-user: Secondary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: You will see what we have been doing in the next lesson.
(See description in the answer to the next question).
25. Teacher Y: Non-user: Secondary
Which curriculum areas do you use loan objects to support? What activities have you used?
History: See observation. The Art department order loans regularly.
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