Partnerships

York Museums Trust would like to thank all the organisations and individuals who have helped us in our work over the year.

In particular we would like to thank the following:

Arts Council of England, Yorkshire

British Museum Partnership UK

City of York Council

Contemporary Art Society

Department of Culture, Media and Sport through the Renaissance in the Regions

Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation

Fairfax House

Ferens Art Gallery

Friends of York Art Gallery

Heritage Lottery Fund

Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Yorkshire

National Railway Museum

Nestlé

North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership

Paul Mellon Foundation

Renaissance Group

Scarborough Art Gallery

Shepherd Building Group

Terry's

The Big Lottery Fund

The Bowes Museum

The National Gallery

University of York

Wakefield Art Gallery

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

WRENS

York Archaeological Trust

York City Archives

York College

York Oral History Society

York St John University

York Theatre Royal

Yorkshire Forward

Yorkshire Philosophical Society

School Partnerships

During 2005/6, 406 schools from all over the country took part in education workshops at York Art Gallery (100), York Castle Museum (176), and the Yorkshire Museum (130). The overall total for York Castle Museum and the Yorkshire Museum was 306, up from the overall total of 200 for the two venues in 2004/5 ( when York Art Gallery was closed), a rise of just over 50 per cent . The workshops ranged from Early Years groups up to post-16 students.

Partnerships were formed with several schools which helped develop or pilot new resources and sessions, or took part in projects and teacher placements. These included:

Primary:

Burton Green Primary School (Their Past, Your Future Partnership project with City of York Archives)

Scarcroft Primary School (Their Past, Your Future Partnership project with City of York Archives)

New Earswick Primary School (Theatre Royal ‘Street Children Project)

Westfield Primary School and New Earswick Primary School (‘Design a Plate’ Competition winners)

Knavesmire Primary School (Christmas lecture)

Nun Monkton Primary School (Christmas lecture)

Park Grove Primary School (Christmas lecture)

Secondary

Millthorpe School (production of Leisure and Tourism DVD in partnership with NYBEP):

Millthorpe School (teacher placement developing resources for teaching science at Key Stage 3)

Canon Lee School (development of Young Consultant Group)

Lowfield School (Leisure and Tourism GCSE course)

Millthorpe School (Christmas lecture)

Archbishop Holgate School (Pathfinders project)

Huntington School (Pathfinders project)

Partnerships were also developed with Higher Education and Further Education institutions in York:

Talks and presentations on gallery and museum education to students from York University and York St. John College
Talk on Business Studies to students from York College
The development of a new interactive unit for York Art Gallery by Design students from York. St. John College
‘Meet the Artist’ talks with students from York College and York St. John College
Placement of four Initial Trainee Teachers from York St. John College

For teachers the following opportunities were developed:

The trust hosted meetings of City of York Council LEA’s Secondary Network Learning Groups, which meet to develop curriculum resources in specific subject areas, in the areas of art and history. It also hosted meetings of the Primary Curriculum Support Group, in art.
The trust took part in the ‘Out and About’ training day for York teachers, with events at all sites for York primary school teachers.
Two ‘Meet the Curator’ events were held in science and archaeology
A Victorian classroom experience for a group of European teachers on an exchange visit to St. Lawrence’s Primary School

The learning team also worked in partnership with Creative Minds (receiving project funding and speaking at training days), the Group for Education in Museum (speaking at training days), North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership(teacher placements and delivering workshops for North Yorkshire primary school pupils at Science Technology Engineering and Maths fairs) and Science City York (delivering workshops to primary pupils at the ‘Discovery Days’ event for National Science Week 2005).