Welcome to our new Education Blog! We will use
this space to let you know about the diverse activities we run for lots of
different audiences.
A good starting place must be introducing the team, so
here goes:
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Left to right: Salma Caller, Andy McLellan, Simone Dogherty, Maya Herbolzheimer, Shirley Careford, Becca McVean © Pitt Rivers Museum |
Andy McLellan, Head of Education, leads the
department, provides the vision, and goes to lots of meetings. He is
particularly interested in film projects and has worked with teenagers in care,
schools and community groups. He arrived at the Pitt Rivers Museum in 2000 to
start up the Education Team, which now encompasses seven staff.
There are Education Officers for different
audience groups. Salma Caller works with Adults, Secondary Schools and Communities. She draws on her background as an artist and having travelled
widely to help interpret objects to this wide range of audiences. Becca McVean
works with Primary Schools, utilising her skills as a trained English teacher,
and Simone Dogherty enchants families with her cheerful smile and demon design
skills.
We are lucky enough to have a Music Education
Officer, Isabelle Carré, who delivers specialist projects and workshops and can often be seen
playing giant African xylophones, Indonesian gamelans or Korean drums.
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| Isabelle Carré introduces primary school pupils to giant Ugandan xylophone in the African Music session © Pitt Rivers Museum |
Maya Herbolzheimer is the only full-time member
of the Education Team and works as an Activities and Outreach officer for the
HLF-funded VERVE: Need Make Use project. She organises
outreach activities in the ‘pop-up’ Pitt Rivers tent around Oxfordshire, and
runs events in the Museum such as workshops, demonstrations and evening events
for adult audiences.
Our long-suffering Joint Bookings Officer,
Shirley Careford, co-ordinates visitor bookings across the Oxford UniversityMuseum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers, and manages the Visitor Centre.
She’ll always try to sort out your problem but cross her at your peril,
particularly when Tottenham Hotspur has lost.
So now the niceties of introductions are over,
you’ll be hearing from us over the next few months. From the daily grind to the
sublime heights of project work. Keep reading…
