Paganel visit the University

“It’s really big, lots of things to see and people learn and everyone works very hard.”

Siem and Adam report on the year 6 visit to the University of Birmingham, Thursday 7th July 2016

Old School

It’s SATs week, and when better to get stuck into some school archives?  We’re finally managing to get the archive room unpacked, and uncovering a few treasures while we’re at it.

Seim

A tea set in Sien’s house to welcome guests

Seim talks about Eritrea and his new life in Birmingham.  The Archive after-school club have some questions about his life, his family, his favourite things, and traditions he has brought with him from Eritrea.

What would you ask your teacher?

Archive After-school club had the opportunity to put some frank questions to their Year 6 teacher at Paganel Primary school, Mr. Harwood.

We’ve recorded the questions and the answers in short video clips:

Lateral thinking & policy writing

Archive club policy working group (archives in background waiting for a new permanent home at Paganel School)

There’s a lot of building work going on at Paganel School, not least the refurb of Paganel Archives room.  It’s at moments like these when we are forced to take stock, think about what we’re doing and why – a good time to write that Archives Collections Policy that somehow never got written.

Policy writing can seem a dull, time-comsuming task (which is why it probably didn’t get done in the first place), and how can you write a pertinent policy collaboratively without boring everyone?  Who better than Edward de Bono to help out with our lateral thinking to make sure we at least have a draft policy that matches our ambition?

Bringing photos to life for Queen’s Jubilee

I was in year 2, and it’s all about the Queens jubilee.  I was there, and there was a big greenboard, you stand on the green carpet.  Your face is going to be in the screen on old photos…

Paganel Stories revisited

Its about a story on a big sheet of paper about

A display from the 2012 project, ‘Paganel Stories’, where interviews children recorded were creatively re-interpreted

interviews…and turned it into poetry and performed it and practiced it and did it to music.  It’s basically a musical.

 

Audrey was a child who lived in Weoley Castle born in 1923 and was at school in the 1930s.  Philip is a ‘chatty kind man librarian by trade, dress very well his clothes were up to date, lived in a back to back , had a bath every day, a candy shop on his road so no money he saved’, so basically he was a child who liked going to a candy shop.

Isabelle’s favourite archive

The Explore Your Archive campaign, which is coordinated by The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland), is now in its third year. This year the main launch week for the Explore Your Archive campaign will run from 14 to 22 November 2015.