Heritage Skills Hub
Delivered across both counties, The Heritage Skills Hub works in dialogue with Heritage Impact Accelerator participants, regional delivery partners and colleagues, and offers needs-driven online and physical training sessions and events. Meeting their needs, as well as educators across the two counties, including teachers, researchers, and those involved in community initiatives and outreach, sessions will include practical help with issues relating to:
- working across heritage
- completing bids
- building strategic partnerships and networks
- building digital infrastructure
- engaging with schools
- developing archives
- improving professional resilience and diversifying income.
The Heritage Skills Hub will provide sessions exploring how to introduce heritage to a learning environment, how to create education partnerships, and how local heritage offers can embed into a curriculum.
For more information contact us: heritage@northampton.ac.uk
Bringing Heritage Into The Classroom
Colleagues from both the heritage and educations sectors in the county joined us to mark the launch of the Heritage Skills Hub in July 2023. An afternoon of mixed weather did not dampen the enthusiasm of our speakers who covered a variety of topics which included the needs of schools when considering the development of their curriculum, examples of heritage sites being used to develop young entrepreneurial skills and an insight into the fantastic opportunities that local heritage provides in developing a relevant and engaging curriculum that reaches beyond history alone.
The opportunity to network, while exploring Stanwick Lakes’ rich heritage and consider how the Skills Hub can support both sectors moving forwards, was popular, as was the presentation from one of Luton’s Heritage Impact Accelerator Practitioners. This generated much interest in our Corby Heritage Accelerator programme and how schools will be able to engage with this aspect of our heritage project.
What attendees said:
“As a launch event it was spot on! Next events would be nice to have some workshops to begin to develop practical skills. I will continue to explore Heritage curriculum beyond history. Thanks so much. It was lovely to be part of such a positive, well organised and inspiring event.”
“The presentations were all great, but there was also time to network during the breaks and when looking around the site, which I really enjoyed. I was unfamiliar with the site.”
Thank you to everyone who supported the event, to our inspirational speakers and to the amazing Stanwick Lakes team for hosting us so wonderfully!
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