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The 16th Annual Conference : Saturday, 25th September 2010
The British Schools Museum in Hitchin, Hertfordshire as part of the school’s Bicentenary Year. PROGRAMME FRIDAY, 24th SEPTEMBER
Welcome, and refreshments, available from 3pm.
7.30pm: ‘Conference Supper’ – an informal two course meal.
SATURDAY, 25th SEPTEMBER, 10.00am – 4.30pm
10.00am
| Registration and coffee | 10.25am
| Ann Wise, Manager, The British Schools Museum : Welcome to all! | | 10.30am | Eileen Wallace, Historian and former HCC Archive Education Officer: ‘Educating the lower orders – some 19thC. attitudes and solutions’ | | 11.00am | Terry Ransome, Trustee and Visitor Services Co-ordinator, The British Schools Museum: ‘Joseph Lancaster – so much done, so much still to do’ | 11.30am
| Coffee and biscuits | | 11.45am | Yvonne Limbrick, Trustee and Education Officer, The British Schools Museum: ‘Lancaster’s teaching methods in a monitorial Schoolroom’ | | 12.15am | Yvonne Furniss, Teacher, The British Schools Museum: ‘A monitorial lesson’ | | 12.45pm | Buffet Lunch | 1.45pm
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1. The AGM for all SMG members: 1.45pm – 2.30pm
2. Museum site visits for all other delegates: 1.45pm – 3.15pm | | 3.15pm | Rev. Professor Stephen Orchard, former Chair of The BFSS: ‘In the steps of Lancaster: 200 years of The British and Foreign School Society’ | 4.00pm
| Discussion session and Tea | | 4.30pm | Conference ends |
During the day, there will be an opportunity for delegates to see this extensive site: the Boys’ School with its Lancasterian Schoolroom of 1837, its Gallery classroom of 1853, and its two Edwardian classrooms; the Girls’ School now housing the Jill Grey Collection of some 30,000 items; the Infants’ School now providing space for the Meeting Room; the Museum Shop; and the Museum Room with its handling collection of artefacts for all visitors, and, lastly, the Master’s House of 1856 now refurbished to suggest a teacher’s home of the 1890’s. Conference fee: £25.00 per person and will include a buffet lunch. Booking forms, an accommodation list and a street map of Hitchin are available. Contacts:-
1. Yvonne Furniss, SMG Committee member, and a volunteer at The BSM, teaching in Lancaster’s monitorial schoolroom.
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2. Liz Hunter, SMG Hon. Secretary/treasurer, and a vice president of The BSM.
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3. Ann Wise, Museum manager, The BSM, 41/42 Queen Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 9TS ( 01462-420144: the admin. office)
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Annual Conference