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Culture Matters: At War With King Charles

Extended Schools at the Museum of Oxford
 
Following a successful pilot project supported by Museum Libraries & Archives South East's DCMS/DfES Strategic Commissioning programme, the Museum of Oxford is offering a new programme of after school clubs.
 
Teachers and pupils from Windale Primary School worked with staff from the Museum of Oxford and a creative writer (Deborah Jarman from the Inspiration Exchange) to create a series of stimulating after-school club sessions, culminating in an exhibition and after-school reception to celebrate the work.
 
Pupils who join the new after-school sessions from September 2007 will find out about the symbolism behind English Civil War portraits, handle replica artefacts, visit the museum’s galleries, and go on a short walk to hear the dangers of overcrowding, disease, fire and war. They will discover how King Charles I, his wife, courtiers and soldiers lived in the city during 1642, and the impact they had on the living conditions of the citizens of Oxford. They will try on seventeenth century costume and replica armour, and pose for photographic portraits taken as a Roundheads or Cavaliers.
 
In follow-up classroom sessions pupils can create frames and labels for their portraits, hear the story of King Charles I execution, and use a word bank of associated words to create their own pictures and storyboards.
 
To find out more about the programme, or to make a booking, please telephone Kate Toomey, Museum Education Officer, on 01865 252761.