East Sussex Archaeology and Museums Partnership

ESAMP Training services and educational work 2006

ESAMP has been providing heritage and environmental training since 1984. Alongside this ESAMP also runs a diverse public archaeological education programme. During 2006 ESAMP built on this existing work and developed new key opportunities for local people to participate and work in their local cultural and environmental heritage.

Training and voluntary work

During 2006 ESAMP provided thirty high quality training and volunteer placements for local people who were not in work. These training placements were run in partnership with the Countryside Management Group of the County Council, The Sussex Archaeological Society and the Brighton and Hove Museums Service. The volunteer opportunities were part financed by the European Union under a new transnational partnership programme which ESAMP has developed with a French archaeological organization - ASNAPIO. This two year programme is designed to help the general public in East Sussex and Nord Pas de Calais have better access and enhanced understanding of their cultural heritage. It will also support ESAMP's professional development as a cultural heritage training and educational organization and it will support our work supporting local people who want to work in the fields of archaeology and museums.

During 2006 over 75% of the people who participated in the training and voluntary work moved into employment at the end of their time with ESAMP.

Schools' education programme
During 2006 ESAMP has offered a rich and diverse public and schools education programme. There were three major strands to ESAMP's schools work in 2006. In January to March ESAMP worked in partnership with Brighton Museum on an exciting outreach partnership. This involved taking a range of local Saxon grave goods and skeletal material into local schools and enabling the children to have a high level of direct access to this material. They were encouraged to investigate and interpret the material in a wide variety of ways. This work complemented ESAMP's existing archaeological outreach programme which we offered to a number of schools. We also carried out two major reconstruction building projects with schools in Moulsecoomb and Polegate. These projects involved simulated excavations, the building of reconstruction Iron age roundhouses and a rich supporting programme of craft activities. The buildings are long term educational resources for the schools and ESAMP aims to work with the schools to develop further historical learning programmes and events.

Public education programme
2006 was very exciting year for ESAMP in the range and nature of the public education events which we organized and participated in. This ranged from building a Saxon house in the Museum of London to designing and running a brand new ancient technologies course for Sussex University. During 2006 ESAMP worked with over 20 000 members of the public as part of its events programme.

Details of the schools and public education programme are given below.

Late Saxon Building
constructed in the new Medieval Gallery of the Museum of London

Location: Museum of London
Date: April 2006
Participants: General Public and two local schools
ESAMP has a long standing relationship with the Museum of London and has successfully carried out commissions for the museum on a number of occasions. ESAMP worked alongside specialists from the museum to reconstruct a late Saxon building in the new Medieval galleries which have recently opened at the museum. ESAMP was responsible for the design and construction of the roof, the daubing of the building and the running of a public participation education programme. This programme involved many local school children in the building programme and significant public access work. This commission gave very positive exposure to ESAMP's work in a nationally known museum.

May Day Celtic Festival

Location: Michelham Priory
Date: 30th April & 1st May 2006
Participants: General Public / family groups
This is an annually held, two day public event located at ESAMP's Iron Age Activity centre at Michelham Priory. The event is designed to show people (through a series of engaging practical activities) what life might have been like for people living in the Iron Age in Sussex. This event was initially designed and set up by ESAMP and has been run every year for the last fifteen years in partnership with the Sussex Archaeological Society. On average two thousand five hundred people attend the event each year.

Shinewater Bronze Age Event

Location: Shinewater Park
Date: 7th May
Participants: General public /family groups
Shinewater Park in Eastbourne contains one of the most exciting archaeological wetland sites anywhere in Britain. Simon Hickmott, Environment Group Manager coordinated an environmentally themed event on the site over the weekend of the 7t May. ESAMP supported this through a series of workshop which illuminated the archaeological and paleo-environmental story told by the waterlogged Bronze Age remains found on the site. ESAMP's activities were designed to allow public engagement with their local archaeological heritage. A significant factor relating to this very popular event was that the public audience primarily consisted of local families, many of whom might not ordinarily attend heritage or environmental events. Again a very strong element was how positive this audience was in relation to the fact that their locality was home to such a significant archaeological site. It is likely that this work will be built on in the future.

Brighton Museum Family Archaeology & Schools Outreach Programme

Location: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Date: February - March and Museum open day May 20th
Participants: General Public/family groups. (The whole project involved three local schools and over 700 children.)
During 2006 ESAMP was commissioned by Brighton Museum to take some of the wonderful archaeological collections held by the museum out into the local community over a six month period. This involved ESAMP in working with a number of local schools in Brighton and Eastbourne. ESAMP was given unique access to Saxon artifacts which we then took out into the local community. The educational programme also involved a family event organized in partnership with Brighton Museum, The Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society and ESAMP. This family centered day allowed people to examine Saxon, prehistoric and Roman material through a series of fun stimulating workshops held in the museum. The event was attended by several hundred people.

Archaeology Family Days

Location: Lewes Castle & Anne of Cleves House Museum
Dates: 16th July, 22nd August, 24th & 26th October 2006
Participants: General Public /family groups
As part of its partnership with the Sussex Archaeological Society ESAMP has run four family events with archaeological themes at Lewes castle and Anne of Cleves House Museum. These wonderful historical settings provided an excellent backdrop for the archaeological education workshops which ESAMP runs.

Ancient Crafts & Technologies Summer school - for the University of Sussex

Location: Michelham Priory
Date: 25th-29th July 2006
Participants: 15 students from CCE
This is an ESAMP course run in partnership with the Sussex Archaeological Society and the Centre for Continuing Education at Sussex University. It is held at Michelham Priory and attracts people from across the UK. Participants are taught a very wide range of ancient crafts by ESAMP staff and trainees. The course is recognized as being unique nationally in its scope and quality. This is the fifteenth year which the course has been offered. This course has been running for 15 years.

Polegate Iron Age Roundhouse Project

Location: Polegate School
Date: July 2006
Participants: Students & Staff
ESAMP is always particularly keen to work with local school on long term educational projects. During July 2006 ESAMP spent two weeks working with almost four hundred children from Polegate School, on the construction of an Iron Age house. The building is a long term educational resource for the school. The building work, which involved children at all stages, was complimented by an excavation and object recording programme and a very diverse range of related craft activity workshops.

Woodfair

Location: Bentley wildfowl & Motor Museum
Date: 15th-17th September 2006
Participants: General Public/family groups (over 10,000 visitors)
ESAMP has had a continual presence at Woodfair for the last ten years. Woodfair is one of the largest environmentally themed events of its type in the UK. ESAMP presents a variety of demonstrations and activities over the three days. Our work and reconstructed buildings are designed to show people the rich tradition of early building types in Britain and to allow the public to explore the rich tapestry of everyday skills, knowledge and crafts which were commonplace in the past. This year's Woodfair was the largest ever and ESAMP ran a very wide range of workshops and displays for school groups and families.

Ancient Crafts and Early Buildings Course

Location: Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum
Date: 24th-28th July
Participants: 15 students through CCE
ESAMP is always seeking to develop new courses and learning opportunities. ESAMP set up and ran a brand new course for Sussex University this year. The course was held at the ESAMP site at the Bentley Museum this September. The week long course involved students in an Iron smelt based on local Roman evidence and the reconstruction of a Bronze Age house. The course involved ESAMP in developing new and innovative teaching frameworks. The course was very well received by the students and will be run again next year.

Pumphouse Museum Saxon Building

Location: Pumphouse Museum, London
Date: October 2006
Participants: 5 local schools & community groups
ESAMP worked in partnership with the Pumphouse Museum in Rotherhithe, London, to develop a reconstruction project at the Museum. The museum is set in a nature reserve and the Museum Manager Caroline Marais heads up an education programme which is offered to many thousands of local schoolchildren every year. ESAMP worked in partnership with the Museum and five local schools and a number of community groups to build a Saxon craft building in the grounds of the nature reserve. The building is a permanent resource for the museum and the local community.

Hove Museum Interactive Archaeological Gallery

Location: Hove Museum
Date: October 2006
Participants: General Public
ESAMP was commissioned by Brighton Museum to help design and build an interactive archaeological gallery which opened at the end of October 2006. The gallery is designed to show the work of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society and how archaeologists discover, record and interpret archaeological sites. The exhibition will run for six months.

Moulsecoomb School Iron Age Roundhouse

Location: Moulsecoomb School, Brighton
Date: November 2006
Participants: Students & Staff
In November ESAMP worked with three hundred children and the staff from Moulsecoomb school to build a reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse. This project ran for two weeks and involved not only all the children in the school but also a number of family and community groups. The building will be a long term resource for the school and the local community.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS
In 2006 ESAMP began a two year partnership programme with a French heritage organisation, ASNAPIO, based in Lille. This common cultural heritage project is part funded by the European Union through an Interreg IIIa grant. Through this project we will create a number of new volunteer positions in the archaeological and museums based areas of our work.


A display of dyed textiles at the May Day festival. ESAMP Training services and educational work: Training & Voluntary work Schools' & Public Education Programme Forthcoming Events Download this document here	Home > Events ESAMP Training services and educational work 2006 ESAMP has been providing heritage and environmental training since 1984. Alongside this ESAMP also runs a diverse public archaeological education programme. During 2006 ESAMP built on this existing work and developed new key opportunities for local people to participate and work in their local cultural and environmental heritage. Training and voluntary work During 2006 ESAMP provided thirty high quality training and volunteer placements for local people who were not in work. These training placements were run in partnership with the Countryside Management Group of the County Council, The Sussex Archaeological Society and the Brighton and Hove Museums Service. The volunteer opportunities were part financed by the European Union under a new transnational partnership programme which ESAMP has developed with a French archaeological organization - ASNAPIO. This two year programme is designed to help the general public in East Sussex and Nord Pas de Calais have better access and enhanced understanding of their cultural heritage. It will also support ESAMP's professional development as a cultural heritage training and educational organization and it will support our work supporting local people who want to work in the fields of archaeology and museums. During 2006 over 75% of the people who participated in the training and voluntary work moved into employment at the end of their time with ESAMP. Schools' education programme During 2006 ESAMP has offered a rich and diverse public and schools education programme. There were three major strands to ESAMP's schools work in 2006. In January to March ESAMP worked in partnership with Brighton Museum on an exciting outreach partnership. This involved taking a range of local Saxon grave goods and skeletal material into local schools and enabling the children to have a high level of direct access to this material. They were encouraged to investigate and interpret the material in a wide variety of ways. This work complemented ESAMP's existing archaeological outreach programme which we offered to a number of schools. We also carried out two major reconstruction building projects with schools in Moulsecoomb and Polegate. These projects involved simulated excavations, the building of reconstruction Iron age roundhouses and a rich supporting programme of craft activities. The buildings are long term educational resources for the schools and ESAMP aims to work with the schools to develop further historical learning programmes and events. Public education programme 2006 was very exciting year for ESAMP in the range and nature of the public education events which we organized and participated in. This ranged from building a Saxon house in the Museum of London to designing and running a brand new ancient technologies course for Sussex University. During 2006 ESAMP worked with over 20 000 members of the public as part of its events programme. Details of the schools and public education programme are given below. Late Saxon Building constructed in the new Medieval Gallery of the Museum of London Location: Museum of London Date: April 2006 Participants: General Public and two local schools ESAMP has a long standing relationship with the Museum of London and has successfully carried out commissions for the museum on a number of occasions. ESAMP worked alongside specialists from the museum to reconstruct a late Saxon building in the new Medieval galleries which have recently opened at the museum. ESAMP was responsible for the design and construction of the roof, the daubing of the building and the running of a public participation education programme. This programme involved many local school children in the building programme and significant public access work. This commission gave very positive exposure to ESAMP's work in a nationally known museum. May Day Celtic Festival Location: Michelham Priory Date: 30th April & 1st May 2006 Participants: General Public / family groups This is an annually held, two day public event located at ESAMP's Iron Age Activity centre at Michelham Priory. The event is designed to show people (through a series of engaging practical activities) what life might have been like for people living in the Iron Age in Sussex. This event was initially designed and set up by ESAMP and has been run every year for the last fifteen years in partnership with the Sussex Archaeological Society. On average two thousand five hundred people attend the event each year. Shinewater Bronze Age Event Location: Shinewater Park Date: 7th May Participants: General public /family groups Shinewater Park in Eastbourne contains one of the most exciting archaeological wetland sites anywhere in Britain. Simon Hickmott, Environment Group Manager coordinated an environmentally themed event on the site over the weekend of the 7t May. ESAMP supported this through a series of workshop which illuminated the archaeological and paleo-environmental story told by the waterlogged Bronze Age remains found on the site. ESAMP's activities were designed to allow public engagement with their local archaeological heritage. A significant factor relating to this very popular event was that the public audience primarily consisted of local families, many of whom might not ordinarily attend heritage or environmental events. Again a very strong element was how positive this audience was in relation to the fact that their locality was home to such a significant archaeological site. It is likely that this work will be built on in the future. Brighton Museum Family Archaeology & Schools Outreach Programme Location: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Date: February - March and Museum open day May 20th Participants: General Public/family groups. (The whole project involved three local schools and over 700 children.) During 2006 ESAMP was commissioned by Brighton Museum to take some of the wonderful archaeological collections held by the museum out into the local community over a six month period. This involved ESAMP in working with a number of local schools in Brighton and Eastbourne. ESAMP was given unique access to Saxon artifacts which we then took out into the local community. The educational programme also involved a family event organized in partnership with Brighton Museum, The Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society and ESAMP. This family centered day allowed people to examine Saxon, prehistoric and Roman material through a series of fun stimulating workshops held in the museum. The event was attended by several hundred people. Archaeology Family Days Location: Lewes Castle & Anne of Cleves House Museum Dates: 16th July, 22nd August, 24th & 26th October 2006 Participants: General Public /family groups As part of its partnership with the Sussex Archaeological Society ESAMP has run four family events with archaeological themes at Lewes castle and Anne of Cleves House Museum. These wonderful historical settings provided an excellent backdrop for the archaeological education workshops which ESAMP runs. Ancient Crafts & Technologies Summer school - for the University of Sussex Location: Michelham Priory Date: 25th-29th July 2006 Participants: 15 students from CCE This is an ESAMP course run in partnership with the Sussex Archaeological Society and the Centre for Continuing Education at Sussex University. It is held at Michelham Priory and attracts people from across the UK. Participants are taught a very wide range of ancient crafts by ESAMP staff and trainees. The course is recognized as being unique nationally in its scope and quality. This is the fifteenth year which the course has been offered. This course has been running for 15 years. Polegate Iron Age Roundhouse Project Location: Polegate School Date: July 2006 Participants: Students & Staff ESAMP is always particularly keen to work with local school on long term educational projects. During July 2006 ESAMP spent two weeks working with almost four hundred children from Polegate School, on the construction of an Iron Age house. The building is a long term educational resource for the school. The building work, which involved children at all stages, was complimented by an excavation and object recording programme and a very diverse range of related craft activity workshops. Woodfair Location: Bentley wildfowl & Motor Museum Date: 15th-17th September 2006 Participants: General Public/family groups (over 10,000 visitors) ESAMP has had a continual presence at Woodfair for the last ten years. Woodfair is one of the largest environmentally themed events of its type in the UK. ESAMP presents a variety of demonstrations and activities over the three days. Our work and reconstructed buildings are designed to show people the rich tradition of early building types in Britain and to allow the public to explore the rich tapestry of everyday skills, knowledge and crafts which were commonplace in the past. This year's Woodfair was the largest ever and ESAMP ran a very wide range of workshops and displays for school groups and families. Ancient Crafts and Early Buildings Course Location: Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum Date: 24th-28th July Participants: 15 students through CCE ESAMP is always seeking to develop new courses and learning opportunities. ESAMP set up and ran a brand new course for Sussex University this year. The course was held at the ESAMP site at the Bentley Museum this September. The week long course involved students in an Iron smelt based on local Roman evidence and the reconstruction of a Bronze Age house. The course involved ESAMP in developing new and innovative teaching frameworks. The course was very well received by the students and will be run again next year. Pumphouse Museum Saxon Building Location: Pumphouse Museum, London Date: October 2006 Participants: 5 local schools & community groups ESAMP worked in partnership with the Pumphouse Museum in Rotherhithe, London, to develop a reconstruction project at the Museum. The museum is set in a nature reserve and the Museum Manager Caroline Marais heads up an education programme which is offered to many thousands of local schoolchildren every year. ESAMP worked in partnership with the Museum and five local schools and a number of community groups to build a Saxon craft building in the grounds of the nature reserve. The building is a permanent resource for the museum and the local community. Hove Museum Interactive Archaeological Gallery Location: Hove Museum Date: October 2006 Participants: General Public ESAMP was commissioned by Brighton Museum to help design and build an interactive archaeological gallery which opened at the end of October 2006. The gallery is designed to show the work of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society and how archaeologists discover, record and interpret archaeological sites. The exhibition will run for six months. Moulsecoomb School Iron Age Roundhouse Location: Moulsecoomb School, Brighton Date: November 2006 Participants: Students & Staff In November ESAMP worked with three hundred children and the staff from Moulsecoomb school to build a reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse. This project ran for two weeks and involved not only all the children in the school but also a number of family and community groups. The building will be a long term resource for the school and the local community. FORTHCOMING EVENTS In 2006 ESAMP began a two year partnership programme with a French heritage organisation, ASNAPIO, based in Lille. This common cultural heritage project is part funded by the European Union through an Interreg IIIa grant. Through this project we will create a number of new volunteer positions in the archaeological and museums based areas of our work.