Heritage Training for Teachers

Free training sessions to teachers, teaching assistants, trainee teachers and home schoolers of all school age groups in and around the Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Wimborne, Tisbury, Warminster, Fordingbridge and Blandford areas.

The Chase & Chalke area is rich in heritage and prehistory, including the extraordinary Dorset Cursus, the largest Neolithic earthwork in Britain, and the foundations of Shaftesbury’s Abbey.

 

Teachers learning about historical records
Teachers learning more about historical records

Project achievements

  • Training was delivered by Historic England’s Local Heritage Education Manager Michael Gorely and Archive Education ManagerCat McHarg. They covered techniques and ideas on how to use resources to explore local history and delve into the fascinating prehistoric archaeology of the Cranborne Chase area and how it can be used in a school setting.
  • Participants explored how to use primary sources, such as historical street directories, census returns, historical maps and aerial photography to extend children’s understanding of how people lived in the past and help develop their knowledge of their local heritage and its significance.

 

 icon-group  43 teachers have received training
 icon-group  16 schools have increased their use of local heritage in their curriculum
 icon-group  2,000 students involved in celebrating the landscape around them